In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Friday’s Child which aired on December 1, 1967, Star Date 3497.2.
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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.
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:
For additional reading see Matt’s blog post What CBP Tells Us About Subcultures
In order to really add value to your organization, internal audit has to move to the strategic level. Too often we spend our time in the details and weeds and then wonder why executives are not interested in what we have to say. If you are being ignored, you are probably not talking and acting at the strategic level. Unless we focus on what is relevant to executives and the board, we risk being viewed as as not adding value and even worse irrelevant.
Jason Mefford is joined by Norman Marks, a retired Chief Audit Executive, Chief Risk Officer and thought leader to discuss what internal audit needs to do to move up to the strategic level and get a seat at the big kids’ table.
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Journey to Babelwhich aired on November 20, 1967, Star Date 3842.3.
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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.
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