In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Mary Shirley speaks with Olivia Seet, a Legal and Compliance recruiter, about sought after skills in Compliance, the motherhood penalty and tips for improving your LinkedIn profile.
This episode has a special focus on the Asia Pacific Compliance market which should be welcome in light of the fact that our second and third highest listenership comes from Singapore and New Zealand! Much of the advice proffered holds true across all geographical regions and the episode rounds out with some insights on the state of the market for Compliance professionals without legal backgrounds.
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Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast which takes a deep dive into a compliance related topic, literally going into the weeds to more fully explore a subject. In this episode, Matt Kelly (the coolest guy in compliance) and I take a deep dive into employees of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection who operated a closed Facebook group, replete with racist, sexist posts about migrants and Democratic politicians. For corporate compliance and governance professionals who think about the challenges of building a strong corporate culture, the mess at CBP offers a cautionary tale about the corrosive nature of subcultures.
Some of the highlights include:
- Why are subcultures so corrosive?
- What is Metcalfe’s Law and how does it apply here?
- What is corporate culture v. subcultures?
- How does an organization fight the growth of subcultures?
- What is the role of the CCO?
- Is all this simply protected speech?
For additional reading see Matt’s blog post What CBP Tells Us About Subcultures
In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Journey to Babelwhich aired on November 20, 1967, Star Date 3842.3.
Compliance Takeaways:
- HR is key ally of the compliance function.
- Dynamic tensions between employees must be resolved.
- Be careful in freewheeling banter.
Tom recently attended Podcast Expo, an event designed for the little, non-corporate podcaster, and one of the vendors he met was Squadcast. Squadcast has an interesting tool to help podcasters, and they’re using it for this episode! This week on Innovation in Compliance, Tom Fox, the Compliance Evangelist talks to Zach Moreno and Rock Felder about how they found an opportunity to make a big difference in a crowded industry.
How Did Squadcast Come to Be?
Zach Moreno is a technologist who’s interested in seeing what’s possible with technology.
Rockwell Felder has an audit CPA background, but he left it to become the other co-founder of Squadcast as well as the CFO. The two high-school friends had been podcast listeners for years, and as they got more and more interested in the industry, they looked around and thought ‘we could do this!’ What they found, when trying to create a science fiction audio-drama, was that there wasn’t a good tool for people to record well together – but remotely. They decided to solve the problem – and that became an opportunity for podcasters to capture studio-quality audio – from anywhere.
See What’s Possible
Tom asks Zach and Rock how the principle of ‘seeing what’s possible’ influenced their growth as a company. The company looks at new opportunities as chances to ‘prove themselves wrong’ and doing that has let them be very experimental and push the needle in terms of what is possible to do from remote locations. Zach also mentions that the venture capital opinion of the podcast industry led them to bootstrap the company, and really challenge ‘conventional’ wisdom about what was possible.
Ongoing Improvement
Squadcast actively seeks out and takes advice from their clients – using feedback to make real changes to their platform. Podcasters are a vocal group of people – and as a company, Squadcast wants to give them what they need and get out of their way. They knew they couldn’t fake being all-knowing experts, they needed to listen to and learn from the veteran podcasters. Any opportunity to let people be heard is one they want to take advantage of. Many companies *say* they’re community-focused, but the founders’ lack of experience AS podcasters forced them to really do it. Rock talks about how they like to attend the smaller industry events to get to know the community.
What Compliance Professionals Should Remember
Tom draws a parallel to how important it is in compliance to listen to your people and genuinely respond to what they need, rather than what you think they ought to do, and talks about what a great strategy publicly taking, analyzing and responding to feedback is.
Resources:
Squadcast.fm
In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Metamorphosis which aired on November 13, 1967, Star Date 4513.3.
Compliance Takeaways:
- As a CCO you may have a lawyer background but you must act as a compliance professional.
- Prejudice has no place in today’s corporate culture
- How do you evaluate your senior leadership from the business perspective?
In this episode of the FCPA Compliance Report, I visit Justin Muscolino, Head of North American Compliance Training Operations for GRC Solution. Some of the highlights include:
- Why do organizations struggle so much with culture and what impact can compliance training have to improve this?
- What do organizations often get wrong when it comes to training?
- What happens when organizations do not target their training?
- One of the issues that organizations face is measuring the effectiveness of their training benchmarking that their compliance is working. How can a compliance professional consider benchmarking?
- In a blog post on the GRC Solutions website you also look at the training compliance professionals to improve their culture? How can you train compliance officers around this issue?
- Any advice for companies trying to get the right culture in their organizations?
You can find more information on GRC Solutions by checking out their website, here.
In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
- The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeast Europe by Maire-Janine Calic
- 1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler by Tobias Straumann
- Ballpark: Baseball in the American City by Paul Goldberger
- Knife by Jo Nesbo
