Leadership and Career

As workers and companies continue to embrace flexible arrangements, including a mix of in-person and remote work, the focus is often on enabling job functions from a technical perspective. But intangibles like ethics also need to remain a focus. Asha Palmer, Skillsoft’s senior vice president of compliance solutions, offers tips on creating an ethical, equitable environment regardless of where your...

Not many people love to be told they’re doing something wrong. But for entrepreneurs and high-level corporate executives, avoiding criticism can allow a toxic workplace culture, one in which people are afraid to speak their mind, to take hold. Leadership expert Izzy Galicia shares his views on why embracing feedback — even negative words — can break the cycle of...

The Covid pandemic has given us all a lesson in how our physical and emotional well-being can be affected by workplace stress, and employers are increasingly building workplace well-being strategies. Author and consultant Anna Eliatamby shares her recommendations for a humanity-centered strategy discussion. Well-being strategies have become a popular organizational intervention because of Covid and its aftermath. They usually comprise...

Last week, about 300 ethics and compliance professionals descended upon Amsterdam’s Hotel Okura to participate in SCCE’s European Compliance & Ethics Institute for two and a half days of knowledge sharing and networking. CCI columnist Mary Shirley breaks down her thoughts from two of the sessions she attended. My first visit to Amsterdam, and first attendance at the ECEI in...

New guidance from the DOJ on what makes an effective compliance program should be mandatory reading for every corporate integrity professional. Living Your Best Compliance life columnist Mary Shirley shares her thoughts on upshots of the new guidance. This month kicked off with an exciting development for informing corporate compliance programs, the release of an updated “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance...

For compliance departments that need to do more with less, it’s tempting to lean into automated systems. Compliance and ethics consultant and author Vera Cherepanova warns that focusing on numbers — and not people — can cause more damage in the long run. With compliance teams around the world dealing with cost-cutting edicts from their employers, chief compliance officers face...

For her latest Living Your Best Compliance Life column, Mary Shirley talks about how making expressions of gratitude part of a regular practice can encourage colleagues to live up to their full, ethical potential. Air New Zealand is my home country's national airline. It is known for creative and entertaining safety videos, as well as delicious lollies, candy you are...

This isn’t a story about business, third-party risk management, the DOJ or any of the other topics we normally cover on these pages. It’s a story about football, pain and failing upwards. I wasn’t always an Indianapolis Colts fan; I came into the world when the team was still in Baltimore. The month I was born, Jim Irsay turned 20....

Too few organizations are embracing compliance culture, according to a survey by FTI Consulting and Ethico, which found that while executive pressure to show compliance programs’ value is increasing, their resources — financial and otherwise — aren’t. The findings reveal the extent of dysfunction within organizations when it comes to the importance of compliance and ethics programs, said Angie Gorman,...

One would need a crystal ball or working time machine to predict for certain whether the U.S. and global economies will enter a recession this year. But, as a handful of compliance, risk and governance experts told us, it doesn’t take a psychic reading to know compliance professionals are likely to be well-insulated in any event. There’s far from consensus...

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...

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...