How *not* to write a compliance policy: tips from the DOJ's new antitrust guidance.
Writing a clear, easy-to-understand compliance policy is hard—so hard that the Department of Justice struggles with it, too.
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This is the best compliance training video ever made: here’s why.
Long-time readers will know we are fairly critical of compliance training videos, a fact that puts us squarely on the side of everyone in the entire world who is not in the business of selling comp…
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2019 Update: How to implement the DOJ's Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs
Hey, the Department of Justice updated the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs—that thing that sets out the bare minimum standard for doing your job. It’s super important that…
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What Hui Chen (the DOJ's former compliance expert) said about Broadcat.
In case you missed it: we got a major shout-out from Hui Chen in her Compliance Week keynote. Here’s what happened.
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New DOJ guidance: focus on managers in your corporate compliance program (plus: dog jokes)
In case you missed it: the Department of Justice just released an updated version…
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Just-in-time vs. on-demand training: the difference, explained.
Quick: what does “just-in-time training” actually mean? And how is it different than “on-demand” training?
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Before you do compliance training, ask three questions.
Want to avoid a compliance training disaster? Want to ensure it will be useful and relevant and avoid resulting in your sales team storming your office with pitchforks a…
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What is 'compliance training,' anyway? A simple explanation of what it is—and isn't.
One of the tough things about ethics and compliance is that it involves a lot of relatively complex, abstract concepts. As a result, it's really easy to get stuck with fuzzy definitions f…
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How do you make defensible compliance training?
Does scoping out compliance training feel overwhelming?
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Could you defend your compliance training *content* to the Department of Justice?
Not just "could you show you've done compliance training." Could you defend what your training actually covers, so that you can answer the questions the DOJ has sa…
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Yes, you should give your employees compliance checklists. Here's why.
If you’ve been doing compliance for a while, you’ve probably had someone from your business ask you for a compliance checklist or…
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Broadcat named a behavioral compliance best practice!
Hey, check it out: our approach—and one of our job aids specifically—was named a behavioral compliance best practice! And by an academic journal, so it's legit!
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How do you get your managers involved with compliance training?
Want your business to own compliance culture? Then you need to get your managers involved in spreading the message.
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A simple way to explain the difference between legal and compliance.
"Wait, so are you like the legal team?” How many times have you received that question? And how well do you think your answers have gone over?
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Broadcat is in startup accelerator Praxis Labs!
Hey, we’ve been selected to be one of the companies in Praxis Labs’ 2019 class! Here's what that means.
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Here’s what happens when you create a job listing titled ‘ex-lawyer.’
Back in May, we put out the word that we were hiring an “ex-lawyer." Here’s what happened.
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Three academic works on compliance and ethics that you should read.
At the moment, we’re doing a lot of strategy, research, and product development. I’m not gonna go into details, but it involves a patent filing and me l…
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The best way to make terrible compliance training: put in a time requirement.
Time-based compliance training requirements—like "you have to do 3 hours each year"—are terrible and counterproductive.
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The "millennials don't read" myth and compliance training videos.
Broadcat is like 80% millennials. And that means we can get treated like aliens at compliance conferences and in compliance marketing, where people happily throw around millennial stereotypes—espec…
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A simple reason why no one remembers your compliance training.
If you’ve been following us, you know that we think employees should not have to memorize compliance training.
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Three fake stats about compliance training design—and the truth.
I’m speaking at an academic conference on compliance measurement at UC-Irvine this weekend—so in the spirit of that, let’s get sciencey! Or rather, pseudo-sciencey.
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Infographic: 10 ways thinking operationally will transform your compliance training
We love operationalizing compliance. We started writing about what it actually means back in April 2017, and as of today that post is …
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Three things define effective compliance training—and here's what they are.
Most compliance training is awful, and we usually misdiagnose why.
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Does your compliance training solve a real problem?
If you stopped doing compliance training tomorrow, would anything change at your company? That is, would your employees act any differently?
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Yes, you can actually be "done" with compliance training—here's how.
Do you ever feel like managing corporate compliance training is an impossible, never-ending task?
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Six compliance training lessons from a trip to a warehouse.
I recently went on a field trip to a major retailer's distribution center. I sat in with the newest recruits during orientation to see …
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The market dipped. If you got nervous, you might have an ROI problem.
A blip in the market shouldn't make you nervous—unless you're not sure of the ROI of your compliance program. If that's you, here's what to do about it.
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Hey, boards: is your company’s compliance program designed to work?
Or is it just designed to generate a lot of busywork? And can you tell the difference?
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Want to measure corporate compliance? Look for the dirty socks.
If you read our blog, you are probably on board with the concept that corporate compliance should produce measurable results. We talk about it on this blog and in
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Don't ask “can we do this ourselves"—it's the wrong question. Here's why.
Now that I run a company, it is sometimes embarrassing to look back at my in-house career and realize how clueless I was about how business works.
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You don’t need annual compliance training, but we made some anyway. Here’s why.
So here's the thing: we think saying "you need to do formal, annual compliance training" is overblown. ...but we made an annual compliance training course anyway.
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Quiz: are you independent? Eight questions to ask yourself.
If you are a Chief Compliance Officer, what's your move if you: - Are forced to lie or cover something up?
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How to prove your compliance program works. [conference preview]
If you want to prove your compliance program works, you have to make a business case for it. Because you work in corporate compliance, not Free Money Tree compliance. And so it's not …
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We’re explaining how to show your program works, in dollars. You should attend.
Hey, what’s the business case for your compliance program?
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Excerpt: Yes, you can spend $300,000 and still be checking a box.
Here's an excerpt from our book, "Why most compliance training fails... and how to fix it."
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Understand, don't just listen: the icons origin story.
The idea for creating standardized icons came from a client meeting, but it’s not what the client originally asked for. And that explains the difference between…
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Your visuals need to mean something—especially if you're global.
Here's something lots of well-meaning compliance people say that can cause a lot of unintentional chaos:
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You need to standardize your compliance guidance—because of bad bathrooms.
Earlier this week, I recorded an episode of Leona Lewis' Masters of Disaster podcast.
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Compliance icons are here—and they'll transform your program.
“Cool, thanks for this. I’ll definitely pretend to read it.” - your employees, getting your latest compliance guidance.
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One Year in a Hidden Industry
This post is by Ryan, our design lead. I recruited Ryan from a digital strategy agency a little over a year ago to set up and run the …
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Hui Chen weighs in on compliance training.
In case you missed it: Hui Chen, the DOJ’s outgoing compliance expert, weighed in on compliance training this weekend.…
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Make your riskiest stuff easiest to understand.
Quick, what compliance risk keeps you up at night? Got it? Good. That risk should, from your employees' perspective, be the easiest to understand. Here, let me explain this with a pic…
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Kill stuff that isn't working (or, why we're not on Facebook anymore).
Yep, we took down our Facebook page today. Here's why.
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50% of compliance professionals just winging it, survey says
Courtney and I just got back from Compliance Week, where I was presenting with Jen and Shawn from Walmart and GM. As shown here:
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How do you spend your compliance training budget?
How do you allocate your compliance training budget? Does the majority go to high-level, all-employee stuff? Or do you focus it where you have the highest risk?
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Why your team needs to take vacation. Especially if you're in compliance.
We are pro-vacation at Broadcat.
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See us tackle compliance training (with Walmart and GM) at CW '17.
Next week, I’ll be moderating a panel at the Compliance Week conference between two friends of ours: Jen Buchanan of Walmart and Shawn Rogers of General Motors.
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You may want instant gratification, but you don’t need it.
You hear a lot about instant gratification. Especially in the context of working with millennials.
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If online compliance training is so awful, why do you still do it?
You probably do not like online compliance training. This is true whether you are a compliance professional or just someo…
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We've supercharged your subscription!
Hey there! I’m Courtney, one of the latest additions to the Broadcat team. And if you're one of our customers, I'm here to help.
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Operationalizing compliance: how to get started.
OK, let’s review: You’ve read the DOJ’s “Evaluation of Corporate Co…
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What "operationalizing compliance" actually means—and why it matters.
Ever since the Department of Justice released the Evaluation of Corpor…
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The Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, Spider-Man, and you.
The Department of Justice’s “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” rests on two assumptions: 1. Compliance has a seat at the table.
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Never "make it pretty."
Never ask anyone to make your compliance materials “pretty.” Because you do not want “pretty.” You want “useful.” They are different.
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Winter is coming.
What’s your doomsday scenario? That is, what event would totally wipe out your compliance program as j…
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Another day, another podcast interview!
In case you haven't heard, we've got"the beat:" Ricardo was recently interviewed by Eric Morehead for the
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Forget "best practices."
The first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem. And in corporate compliance, our problem is that we are addicted to best practices.
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No, you don't have an engagement problem.
You do not have an engagement problem with your compliance training.
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Our seal came in. And our tattoos.
Check out what Rachel made: our very own corporate seal.
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When employees attack (your program)
What should you do when you get negative feedback on your compliance training?
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Why are Ikea instructions so hard?
So, we’ve just moved into our new office. And we’re a startup, which means that (1) we like cool things but (2) we have to be resourceful in finding them.
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If you can't beat 'em, Pokemon 'em
Sometimes, staying relevant to your employees requires you to deviate from your scheduled stuff in order to engage with them on a real-time cultural moment.
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Ouch, Vanilla Ice: Or, How to Use Pictures Correctly
Here’s a picture I took in Tokyo last week. Tell me, what do you think this is:
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We got interviewed! (podcast post!)
Hey guys, today we've got something for your ears instead of your eyes: Ricardo was recently interviewed by Leona Lewis for the <…
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Benchmarks are not checkmarks (+ when not to film your CEO)
Here's the nice thing about compliance: once you clear the hurdle of what the Federal Sentencing Guidelines require, you’re free to do whatever is going to work best for your company to get complia…
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WSJ report: why contrasting examples work for training
Today—April 13—the Wall Street Journal reports that…
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[infographic] The DOJ's FCPA Pilot Program, Visualized
On April 5, the DOJ released a memo announcing a FCPA pilot program where companies can get special leniency in exchange for special cooperation.
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Oh hey, we're on a magazine cover!
When I was a young man, I hoped that I would one day accomplish two things:
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What can you give to a government official? [infographic]
As we head into the heart of gift-giving season, it's a good time to give your employees a reminder on gifts and entertainment. And to help you do that, here's an email-ready infographic with some …
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How will the DOJ's new compliance expert evaluate your program? [infographic]
Since you're the type of person that's reading a compliance blog, let's go over a few things that you probably already know, but your business clients don't.
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The Yates Memo: Simplified and Visualized
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice released the Yates Memo, its latest directive on how it prosecutes corporate crime. And since then, there have been a zillion law firm alerts and …
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[games] Two easy-to-execute games for Compliance Week
With the HCCA's Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week 2015 coming up in the first week of November, here's a few id…
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