Section 2

Building Your Foundation

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Implement What You Know with Confidence

Discover action-based tools that provide simple steps for program improvement or robust plans for new ways of doing business. 

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Your ethics and compliance program is an ecosystem of moving parts. New laws and regulations, new lines of business, new geographies, mergers and acquisitions become part of a growing enterprise that your compliance ecosystem must support. 

Effective compliance programs are able to deftly navigate these complexities because they have built strong foundations that were developed with the nature of the compliance industry in mind.

This section will give you the expert advice and programmatic best practices to ensure the first steps you take to develop your program are in the right direction. Or if your program is more mature, these resources and insights will give you the necessary guidance to course correct and improve your program’s foundation at whichever stage it is in. 

 

How to Survive Compliance Training Disillusionment

Chapter 6 of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Guide for Compliance Professionals

For your program to be effective, employees need to feel personally connected to the notion of doing business ethically and in compliance. Learn how to survive with Tom Fox.

Tom Fox 12/01/2017

Chapter 6 of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Guide for Compliance Professionals

For your program to be effective, employees need to feel personally connected to the notion of doing business ethically and in compliance. Learn how to survive with Tom Fox.

 

5. Broadcast Your Secret Sauce

Explore the overlap between your own story-based compliance content and your professional social media strategies. There’s an opportunity here for highly effective external communications and internal training. Take the traditional methods of compliance training and combine them with videos and other social media channels to drive awareness with real world examples. If you have an internal twitter function, an internal social media coms system or anything else which is the social media equivalent of an employee bulletin board, post ethics and compliance topics on it. By using real content, it will show your employees not only how compliance standards help them do business ethically, but also how it makes your organization more efficient and profitable.

 

Remember that people still talk about Homer and Troy because it came down as a story. If you can tell a story around your compliance program, it will resonate more fully with your internal customer base—your employees.

 

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