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Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics: How to Keep Fake Data out of Your Compliance Program

It’s easy to rely on metrics like “completed trainings” to chart the effectiveness of your compliance program. Compliance expert Courtney Sander reality checks the underlying stats you’re (probably) using to prove the value of your program. Every compliance program should achieve these three goals: align the business with rules, regulations and laws; prevent misconduct; and detect misconduct. And as well-intentioned...

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High-Fiving in the Virtual Office: Gratitude Can Go Viral via Email

Even when everything’s going well, work stress can often seep into office communications in negative ways. As more and more business is done remotely, it’s time to evaluate the gratitude level in your email habits. If you’ve been feeling extra-stressed lately, you’re not alone. According to a 2022 poll by the American Psychological Association (APA), Americans are more stressed than...

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When It Comes to Compliance, Should We Educate or Train?

A Gallup survey last year found that among employees who had received training on ethics and compliance, fewer than one in four rated the session as excellent. If you’ve seen the worst of the worst when it comes to compliance training, it’s not hard to see why. Ethics and compliance consultant Calvin London has a modest proposal: It’s time to...

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With Retaliation on the Rise, How Can You Maintain a Culture of Integrity?

When we speak of non-retaliation, it’s often in an effort to encourage staff to speak up. Right now, lack of speaking up isn’t the problem. Retaliation itself, rather than employee silence, is running rampant, harming our cultures of integrity. Mary Shirley discusses some of the data around the culture-of-integrity crisis and provides a guide detailing an actionable way to address...

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How to De-Stress Budgeting for Your Compliance Program

Strong compliance programs don’t just happen. They require planning — and budgeting. Being thoughtful and proactive will help drive appropriate budgeting that supports and promotes program effectiveness, while reducing your stress both now and throughout the next fiscal year. ’Tis the season of budget management. Every year, around the time fall beverages show up at your local barista, budgeting blues...

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Why Our Best Employees Don’t Speak Up

Are we conditioning our employees not to speak up? The traits present in our best employees might make them less likely to raise issues, concerns and ideas. Compliance expert Courtney Sander explores integrating speaking-up practice within the business to benefit your compliance program and the broader organization. What makes good employees great can hurt a speak-up culture. I started down...

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Take a Page From The Onion: A General Counsel’s Guide to Effective Amicus Advocacy

Amicus curiae briefs play a significant role in appeals throughout the country. From state appellate courts to the U.S. Supreme Court, judges increasingly rely on the perspectives of amici to inform their opinions. According to the American Bar Association, over a third of U.S. Supreme Court opinions are directly influenced by amici, and the same is true for a large...

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I Call Bullshit on ‘Quiet Quitting’

It’s the only resource none of us can ever replenish: Time. So why is it now a revolutionary act to say that you’ll spend exactly as much time at work as your boss is willing to pay you for? Quiet quitting is a resoundingly stupid name for simply doing your job. I was paid to write this. I have an...

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Stop the Dog Whistling, We Can All Hear You

Rising political and cultural tensions are undeniable. But just as there remain political leaders with convictions, ethics and compliance consultant Lisa Schor Babin says corporate leaders need to understand that now is the time to screw their courage to the sticking place. Political rhetoric and dog whistling are not newcomers to the national scene. What is new and, frankly, frightening...

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