If I could save time in a bottle, ahhh those beautiful words from Jim Croce. Problem is you can’t. The one thing all humans have an equal amount of is time … the challenge for most of us it just keeps slipping, slipping away and we wake up years later in exactly the same place.
The quality of your life depends on the choices you make and how you “take” time. It’s time to quit complaining or thinking you don’t “have enough time” or “now is not a good time.” TODAY is the best day to start making changes and take the time to have a better life.
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Oh, and for those of you that enjoy it, the guitar comes out again in this episode 🙂
One thing that is slipping, slipping away is your ability to join the Chief Audit Executive Forum. If you are a #chiefauditexecutive and ready to take your career to the limit in a community of like-minded peers, book your call and join the #CAE Forum: https://jasonmefford.mykajabi.com/caeforum
Your career will thank you, and so will your sanity.
#timemanagement
Day: June 2, 2020
The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Ryan Rabalais, currently an Ethics and Compliance Officer at Bechtel Oil, Gas & Chemicals. Rabalais has been Vice President and CCO at both Rowan Companies and Paragon Offshore.
Ryan Rabalais has over two decades of legal and compliance experience in the oil and gas sector, including being a Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer for two different companies with global operations. Ryan has a history of providing practical solutions to the business and managing overall corporate and regulatory compliance programs. His compliance experience includes a particular focus on anti-corruption, sanctions, trade controls and US anti-boycott, with reporting responsibilities to senior management and the Board of Directors of large, publicly traded companies.
In this first episode, we discuss how Ryan started his journey to the CCO chair. Ryan has one of the most unique journeys to the CCO role. He joined the Marine Corp out of high school. He then went to college and law school. In 2003, while still in law school he answered an ad for a Spanish speaking law clerk at Baker Hughes. That started him down the road to work Baker Hughes through its FCPA enforcement action, DPA and monitorship. From their he moved to the other compliance positions at other companies culminating in the CCO chair.
On this special bonus episode of The Ethics Experts, we speak with Gary Ernster about how vendors should assimilate into the culture of the company they’re working with in order to ensure a lasting relationship.
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Welcome to the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network, Compliance and Coronavirus. As the Voice of Compliance, I wanted to start a podcast which will help to bring both clarity and sanity to the compliance practitioner and compliance profession during this worldwide health and healthcare crisis. In this episode, I am joined by David Wolf, As the founder and CEO of Audivita Studios, where he shares his years of experience to help business professionals, organizations, authors, speakers and thought leaders “Connect Your Voice to the World” to grow your brand and platform with podcasting and audiobooks. Wolf joins the podcast to discuss how, in today’s health crisis and economic dislocation do both of these offerings help communicate ideas and concepts in the business world.
For more information on David Wolf or Audivita Studios, check out there website here.
Tom Fox met Mary Ann Faremouth at the National Speakers Association’s (NSA) Winter Conference. He was immediately enthralled with her passion for recruiting. Mary Ann is the founder and CEO of Faremouth & Company, a national recruiting and consulting firm. She also networks with a consortium of recruiters, sharing jobs and helping candidates. Mary Ann describes herself as a “holistic recruiter”: she looks at the whole person when placing candidates, as she believes this more human approach works best for these times. She chats with Tom about her book, Revolutionary Recruiting, and shares practical advice for job seekers as well as employers.
The Faremouth Method
Tom asks Mary Ann to describe the Faremouth Method. She explains that it is the 5-step process she uses to place candidates. These 5 steps are:
- Know yourself: do an inventory of your skills and talents.
- Ask better questions.
- Step out of your comfort zone.
- Take the time to do it right.
- Be a hunter.
She says, “The Faremouth Method helps me really identify who that person is right now, what their purpose is, what their passions are, and that helps me align them with a position that’s gonna fit that.”
A Win-Win Approach
“…if we take the time to understand what their [candidates’] passions are, what their skills are, what their transferable skills are, we can place them in positions where the retention rate is a lot higher. Candidates are happier because they’re feeling a sense of purpose. The clients are happier because people aren’t leaving, and so it’s a win-win for everyone.” Mary Ann and Tom discuss why her holistic approach makes good business sense. Tom comments that Mary Ann brings not only her professionalism to the table, but also candidates and clients trust her advice. She responds that her motto is ‘Integrity Personified’, and that doing the right thing for everyone is one of her key values but it is also just good business. “If I make a good match, everybody’s happy,” she points out. “Then guess what happens? That client is gonna send me his vendors, that applicant is gonna send me his friends.”
Key Mistakes Employers Make
Revolutionary times such as these, require a revolutionary approach to recruiting, Mary Ann argues. In the new normal, both job seekers and employers have to be willing to think outside the box. Tom asks Mary Ann to outline the key mistakes employers make when they’re looking to hire a new employee. She responds that employers often have unreasonable demands and expectations. Going forward, they have to look realistically at the job and its requirements, and look for a candidate with those transferable skills, Mary Ann says. She shares some insights about the post-COVID job market.
Another mistake employers make is that they don’t ask the right questions during interviews. She advocates asking more hypothetical questions so that employers can gauge the potential employee’s problem-solving skills, and if they have the right mindset to be part of the team. Mary Ann then shares some insightful and practical advice for listeners to prepare themselves for the future. Life is ultimately about relationships, she remarks. Ask yourself, What can I do in service of others? “Maybe this is the time for us to look at these worst of times being the best of times for us to improve and to learn what our skill set might be that we can refine to help make a contribution to the greater good,” Mary Ann comments.
Resources
Faremouth.com
Revolutionary Recruiting book on Amazon | Barnes and Noble
USA Daily Times
The Price of Business podcast
In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
- DOJ drops new Compliance Program Guidance. (Justice Department)
