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Owning our reactions to people

Owning our reactions to people

I want to empower you by offering you what you already have – YOU.  We often make our satisfaction or happiness contingent on a client, on a smooth system, on a coworker doing their job correctly. Disempowerment, literally an abdication of self-responsibility, occurs...

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Founded by former licensing officials

Founded by former licensing officials

Serving regulatory agencies isn’t just something we do at GL Solutions. It’s all we do. And when you specialize in something, you become very good at it. If your agency has an unusual software need – and what agency doesn’t? – we’ve seen it before and know how to meet...

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The consequences of using outdated software

The consequences of using outdated software

To function efficiently, regulatory agencies rely upon the quality of their software and the reliability of their software vendors. Bad things happen when agency officials choose the wrong vendor or rely upon a state IT department that fails to keep software up to date.

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Avoid system outages, public harm

Avoid system outages, public harm

What happens when the computer system that supports your agency’s work experiences an outage? Officials in Maryland could tell you. In late June, what has been described as a “catastrophic hardware failure” to a state data system compromised the ability of the state...

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Establish disaster recovery protocols

Establish disaster recovery protocols

To protect your agency, you depend on your IT department, hosting center and software vendor to provide disaster recovery protocols. But what happens when they fail to establish these protocols, leaving your agency’s information vulnerable? When a disaster strikes,...

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Use Online License Verification Websites

Use Online License Verification Websites

Your agency helps the public verify information about professionals and practitioners they wish to hire. What happens when your agency fails to provide accurate and current information? Unfortunately, incorrect public verification information leads the public to make...

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Follow up on failed inspections

Follow up on failed inspections

Your agency protects the public by following up on failed inspections. But what if your current system lacks the ability to perform that follow up? Without that support, inspectors must use a time-consuming manual reinspection process that can allow violators to slip...

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Track enforcement procedures to protect the public

Track enforcement procedures to protect the public

To protect the public, your agency must enforce regulations in a consistent and timely manner. But what if your agency lacks documentation on how to execute enforcement processes? When your agency fails to enforce requirements and statutes correctly, unqualified...

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