Menu10/3/16: A post on the FCPA Blog by Gönenç Gürkaynak, Ç. Olgu Kama and Burcu Ergün from the ELIG law firm asks an interesting question. Why do people view violations of anti-corruption laws and anti-competition laws differently? The authors provide thoughtful ideas about why the two types of illegal behavior may be perceived differently. Those ideas touch on differences of consequence, criminality and drama. The short post on FCPA Blog gives a taste of the full article (requires purchase) through a link at the bottom of the post.
Compliance Communications Blog
Oct 03, 2016 •
Sep 28, 2016 •
Three and a half weeks ago, my Sunday afternoon started beautifully. The sun was out and my family and some friends found a softball field in a town park and took it over. My team was at bat. We weren’t winning yet, but we were going to be. There was one out, I was on 3rd prepared to score the tying run, and my daughter hit a grounder straight to her sister, the pitcher. She saw me running at top speed toward home (top speed for me maybe isn’t that fast, but it was my top speed, nonetheless), and she moved to the plate to tag me out.
Sep 15, 2016 •
Every moment I spend with Compliance Wave Members is an incredible learning opportunity. Once a company comes into Membership, I schedule a quick call to understand more about the ways these organizations communicate, get a feeling for their goals and desires for their programs, and offer up best practices and tools from our Library that I believe can start making a difference.
I always kick off these intro calls with a question: How are you currently communicating with your audience? There are so many ways to reach your employees, third parties, etc. – identifying your distribution channels and “meeting people where they are,” are both key, and something I always like to discuss early on. But what comes after you’ve identified your channels? How can you see if you've touched those employees or cut through the noise of their other communications?
These questions get harder if you are not using an LMS (or have one that you’ve struggled to use). Below are my top three alternative tracking methods, in no particular order, that current Compliance Wave Members often use as a way to report on more than just SCORM completions.
Sep 13, 2016 •
9/13/16: When you’re new to any profession, one of the first things you learn to say about yourself is that you’re passionate about your work. Sell office equipment? You’repassionate about implementing systems that make professional environments more efficient! Teach school? You’re passionate about molding young minds and watching new ideas come to life in the eyes of a child! Wait tables? You’repassionate about providing extraordinary customer service!
Given the choice between hiring two people, who would hire the guy that is merely highly competent when offered the option to hire someone that is absolutely passionate?
Sep 09, 2016 •
9/9/16: In the span of a week, two newsworthy actions happened related to the SEC’s whistleblower program. On August 16, the SEC announced a $340,000 settlement with a healthcare insurance provider that, according to SEC, illegally used “… severance agreements requiring outgoing employees to waive their ability to obtain monetary awards from the SEC’s whistleblower program.” That’s clearly a violation of every imaginable whistleblower protection measure and it’s illegal. Five days later, SEC announced that it had issued its first Whistleblower Program Award. Now, the two aren’t related but there is something beautifully ironic in the timing.
