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31 Days to More Effective Compliance Programs

One Month to a More Effective Compliance Program in Training and Communications – Envisioning Your Compliance Training Program

How can you begin to think through a best practices compliance training program? I asked Shawn Rogers, training guru, expert, and maven. Rogers advised that you ‘envision’ what your training would like as a first step. He stated, “A common mistake is jumping right to the question is which courses you want and how to deploy them. However, you must consider several things before building the program.”

You should develop some principles on what your compliance training will look like. A key way to start is by reference to the Training and Communications section of the 2023 ECCP, which states, “Prosecutors should assess the steps taken by the company to ensure that policies and procedures have been integrated into the organization, including through periodic training and certification for all directors, officers, relevant employees, and, where appropriate, agents and business partners. Prosecutors should also assess whether the company has relayed information in a manner tailored to the audience’s size, sophistication, or subject matter expertise.

Some companies, for instance, give employees practical advice or case studies to address real-life scenarios, and/or guidance on obtaining ethics advice on a case-by-case basis as needs arise.” Some of these principles include the following, What are the Guiding Principles of your compliance training? What are you trying to communicate? Is it a broad set of values you want to speak to every employee about what your organization stands for? As noted in the 2023 ECCP, a company should “examine whether the compliance program is being disseminated to, and understood by, employees in practice to decide whether the compliance program is “truly effective.”

Three key takeaways:

  1. The 2023 ECCP has a strong emphasis on compliance training.
  2. Create a set of Principles for your compliance training programs.
  3. You should always use the Guiding Principles of your compliance training program to make decisions.
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Creativity and Compliance

The Halo Effect

Where does creativity fit into compliance? In more places than you think. Problem-solving, accountability, communication, and connection – they all take creativity. Join Tom Fox and Ronnie Feldman on Creativity and Compliance, part of the award-winning Compliance Podcast Network.

Ronnie’s company, Learnings and Entertainment, utilizes the entertainment devices that people use to consume information in their everyday, non-work lives, and apply it to important topics around compliance and ethics. It is not only about being funny. It is about changing the tone of your compliance communications and messaging to make your compliance program, policies and resources more accessible.

In this episode, Tom and Ronnie discuss the Halo Effect and its role in compliance communications.

Highlights include:

  • What is the importance of making training and comms shorter? What makes it more entertaining, stickier, and helps compliance professionals get increased airtime and exposure, with their messages carried forward.
  • The Halo Effect, which is that people are left with a positive impression.
  • The Halo Effect is not a residual benefit…it is the benefit!
  • The opposite of the Halo Effect is called the Horn Effect…which is that people are left with a negative impression. Hello Compliance!
  • Your compliance reputation doe matter.
  • In every interaction compliance professionals have with employees and leaders, think about Halo’s and not Horns!
  • Maya Angelo once said, people won’t remember what you say, but they’ll remember how you made them feel.

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Creativity and Compliance

Training Jams – Using Music to Communicate E&C

Where does creativity fit into compliance? In more places than you think. Problem-solving, accountability, communication, and connection – all take creativity. Join Tom Fox and Ronnie Feldman on Creativity and Compliance, part of the award-winning Compliance Podcast Network.

Ronnie’s company, Learnings and Entertainment, utilizes people’s entertainment devices to consume information in their everyday, non-work lives and apply it to important topics around compliance and ethics. It is not only about being funny. It is about changing the tone of your compliance communications and messaging to make your compliance program, policies, and resources more accessible.

In this episode, Tom and Ronnie discuss a great new series of offerings by L&E, entitled ‘E&C Training Jams.’ E&C Training Jams are an offering by L&E using music as a non-traditional way to communicate with your employees and to build an overall culture of compliance in your organization. In Training Jams, a soulful singer banters about ethics & compliance, explaining policies, sharing examples, and debunking excuses. Ronnie goes so far as to say about E&C Training Jams, “quite frankly, the coolest thing that I’ve ever made because the music gets stuck in your head, and they leave you with a smile.”

Resources:

Check out  Ronnie Feldman on LinkedIn

Check out Learnings & Entertainments on LinkedIn

Follow Ronnie Feldman on Twitter

Learnings & Entertainments 

 L&E Offerings-E&C Training Jams

E&C Jams Sizzle Reel

E&C Jams Promo Reel Landing page

E&C Jams Web Page

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Corruption, Crime and Compliance

Episode 251 – Training and Corporate Culture: Interview of Maria D’Avanzo, Chief Evangelist Officer, Traliant

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Does compliance training have to be boring? Our guest explains how your organization can make compliance training engaging and fun for your employees.

Maria D’Avanzo is the Chief Evangelist Officer at Traliant. Maria provides key insights on corporate ethics and compliance training programs. Maria describes how to take your training program to the next level and tailor the content to deliver training on important issues based on your company’s risk assessment..

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Compliance Into the Weeds

Suicide Prevention Hotline and a Speak Up Culture

Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast that takes a deep dive into a compliance-related topic, literally going into the weeds to more fully explore a subject. In this episode, we look at the implementation of a national suicide prevention hotline, 988, and consider what it might teach compliance professionals. Highlights and questions posed include:

·      What is the new national Suicide Prevention hotline?

·      How does it inform your corporate hotline and speak up culture?

·      How do you teach the trait of listening?

·      Engaged employees are more effective employees.

·      How easy are the mechanics of your hotline to navigate?

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Matt in Radical Compliance

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Innovation in Compliance

Messaging Through a Great Culture with Richard Blank


 
Richard Blank is the founder, CEO, and head bilingual trainer at Costa Rica’s Call Center, a business process outsourcing (BPO) telemarketing company. They offer outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions of the highest quality. Tom Fox welcomes him to this week’s show to talk about Costa Rica’s Call Center, how they help their clients, why he opened a call center in Costa Rica, and how to lead a successful call center in a foreign country. 
 

 
The Core of Costa Rica’s Call Center
Tom asks Richard why he decided to open a call center in Costa Rica and how the term “Learning through the Proletariat” influenced his business model. Richard explains that as a CEO who works among people, you learn the importance of training and keeping your employees and customers. “One thing that I heard most sitting amongst people that are in a call center industry is that they feel expendable,” he tells Tom. To counteract this, he invests in his employees’ careers by promoting them and teaching them English so that they have pride and security in their job. Additionally, he has several retro arcade game machines that allow the employees to meet colleagues from other departments, and to relax, “or even hang out with el jefe”. He explains that this creates a safe, enjoyable workplace culture and an atmosphere of trust and institutional fairness.
 
BPO Telemarketing Outsource Company
Tom asks Richard to define a BPO telemarketing outsourcing company. BPO stands for business process outsourcing, and it is done in several parts of the world, including the Philippines where it is known as offshore. However, since Costa Rica is so close to the United States, it is considered a near-shore outsourcing company. “[That] could be either a blended or mixed center where they work on multiple accounts; usually it’s for overflowing and answering service,” he explains. Every one of Costa Rica’s Call Center’s agents is assigned to and works specifically for a client. He explains why having a brick-and-mortar call center is more beneficial for them versus being completely remote: problems like Internet redundancy and electricity failure plague remote workers, while at the in-person center, there are multiple tools and resources to hedge technical difficulties.
 
Nearshoring and Outsourcing
Tom asks why Richard chose Costa Rica for a BPO center and what’s the difference in having a company in essentially the same time zone as the US. Richard describes Costa Rica’s ideal location, and that it’s a democratic society with no standing army. In addition, the country’s literacy rate is 95%, and it has the best infrastructure in Central America. They also have highly skilled and experienced workers, some of whom have lived in the US and have dual citizenship. Furthermore, clients like the fact that agents are attuned to the North American market. It is also a safe place to visit for tourism.
 
Resources 
Richard Blank | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube   
Costa Rica’s Call Center | Facebook
 

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Compliance Into the Weeds

Compliance Lessons from the Army

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, we take a deep dive into the recently released GAO report on failures in the US Army SHARP program, largely around policies and procedures, with a dash of culture thrown in.  Highlights include:

·      Why has SHARP failed?

·      What is the role of policies and procedures in compliance? What about culture?

·      How can assess your own internal training and communications?

·      What are the 3 questions every compliance professional should ask?

·      What are the lessons for the civilian compliance world?

·      Where does the Army go from here?

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Matt in Radical Compliance

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Creativity and Compliance

Involving Leadership


Where does creativity fit into compliance? In more places than you think. Problem-solving, accountability, communication, and connection – they all take creativity. Join Tom Fox and Ronnie Feldman on Creativity and Compliance, part of the Compliance Podcast Network. In this episode, Tom and Ronnie look how you can involve leadership in your compliance messaging through comedy and humor.

  • To create a Speak Up / Listen Up culture, involving leadership is key. Being entertaining and creative helps to extend your influence.
  • Providing leadership with simple, short and entertaining training and communication content makes it more likely that they’ll carry these important messages forward.
  • Utilize leaders in training and communications content. Have them tell stories about integrity. Utilize them in talk shows and podcasts. Give them simple tag lines to repeat. Make it simple and fun!
  • Provide training and resources for your leaders so they are more prepared to support their teams when employees do Speak Up. Improv training is a fun way to involve them and give them practical skills.

Resources:
Ronnie Feldman (LinkedIn)
Learnings & Entertainments (LinkedIn)
Ronnie Feldman (Twitter)
Learnings & Entertainments (Website)
60-Second Communication & Awareness Shorts – A variety of short, customizable, quick-hitter “commercials” including songs & jingles, video shorts, newsletter graphics & Gifs, and more. Promote integrity, compliance, the Code, the helpline and the E&C team as helpful advisors and coaches.
Workplace Tonight Show! Micro-learning – a library of 1-10-minute trainings and communications wrapped in the style of a late-night variety show, that explains corporate risk topics and why employees should care.
Custom Live & Digital Programing – We’ll develop programming that fits your culture and balances the seriousness of the subject matter with a more engaging delivery.
Tales from the Hotline – check out some samples.

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Creativity and Compliance

You’re Measuring the Wrong Things


Where does creativity fit into compliance? In more places than you think. Problem-solving, accountability, communication, and connection – they all take creativity. Join Tom Fox and Ronnie Feldman on Creativity and Compliance, part of the Compliance Podcast Network. In this episode, Ronnie goes on an extended rant about why compliance professionals are measuring the wrongs concepts around training. Some of the questions we explore are:

  • Why the typical measurement of compliance programs is BS?
  • What should compliance professionals be measuring?
  • How does Entertainment help?

Resources:
Ronnie Feldman (LinkedIn)
Learnings & Entertainments (LinkedIn)
Ronnie Feldman (Twitter)
Learnings & Entertainments (Website)
60-Second Communication & Awareness Shorts – A variety of short, customizable, quick-hitter “commercials” including songs & jingles, video shorts, newsletter graphics & Gifs, and more. Promote integrity, compliance, the Code, the helpline and the E&C team as helpful advisors and coaches.
Workplace Tonight Show! Micro-learning – a library of 1-10-minute trainings and communications wrapped in the style of a late-night variety show, that explains corporate risk topics and why employees should care.
Custom Live & Digital Programing – We’ll develop programming that fits your culture and balances the seriousness of the subject matter with a more engaging delivery.
Tales from the Hotline – check out some samples.

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31 Days to More Effective Compliance Programs

Day 11 | What is Effective Compliance Training?


One of the key goals of any compliance program is to train employees in awareness and understanding of the FCPA; your specific company compliance program; and to create and foster a culture of compliance. While it seems axiomatic that compliance training is a mainstay of any best practices compliance program, the conversation around training has evolved over the years.
The importance of determining effectiveness of your compliance program has been enshrined by the DOJ. The 2020 Update confirmed that the DOJ wants to see evidence of the effectiveness of your compliance program. This is something that many CCOs and compliance professionals still struggle to determine. Both the simple guidelines suggested herein, the more robust assessment and results provide you with a start to fulfill the precepts set out by the DOJ, as you will eventually need to demonstrate the effectiveness of your compliance training going forward.
Three key takeaways:

  1. How and why have you tailored your compliance training?
  2. The DOJ has mandated demonstrating the effectiveness of compliance training
  3. How is your training presented: both in languages and media?