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The value of marketing can be a tough sell. It gets a reputation for being manipulative or downright...
Unless this is your first day in compliance, you probably know that the number of data compromises (...
Let's be honest about comprehension quizzes: they're like the participation trophies of the learning...
Come with me for a moment on a trip in the way-back machine before the time when our phones doubled ...
If you’re looking for materials where the government tells you exactly what to do for your complianc...
During a recent compliance podcast, the guests (compliance officers) made a fleeting reference to ho...
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The September resignation of BP’s CEO Bernard Looney in the wake of him lying about romantic relatio...
The year is almost over, Team Broadcat, and you know what that means: every company everywhere is co...
Warning: this blog might challenge you to think about things differently. Proceed with caution. 🚧
If you missed last week’s blog post on how to develop a compliance survey, go back and check it out!...
Do you have a pulse on your organization? Knowing what’s going on—and acting on it—not only helps cr...
At Broadcat, we love making microlearning accessible to everyone, because it’s the most effective fo...
You’re special! And we know it. Many of our materials can be used off-the-shelf; we pay careful atte...
During our summer family vacation a few months ago, I had the opportunity to enjoy my morning runs a...
National Grandparents’ Day is coming up on September 10 and it got us thinking about all the grandpa...
Compliance isn’t just about making sure your company follows the rules. It’s also about relationship...
During my interview with some awesome people, I may have mentioned my love for working lazy. They un...
Think that's a bold statement? Well, consider this:
You know when you're working with a group of people who are really skilled and insanely passionate a...
It’s been a year and a half since I joined Broadcat, and wow, what a ride it’s been! In the last 18 ...
World Whistleblower Day is June 23, and in recognition of all the courageous individuals who blow th...
Do you know who in your organization has access to what resources? Does it really matter?
We might not be in charge of handing out little gold statues at the Oscars, but if we were, we’d sta...
I’d suggest that every compliance officer spends their time 'pushing': pushing out training, reminde...
I work for Broadcat as a graphic designer, and while I’m not a compliance pro, I work with enough of...
If you’ve spent some time on our blog, you probably noticed that we’ve written a lot of how-to posts...
There are so many myths when it comes to effective training and comms. Every time I read something a...
Being a compliance pro can bring out all the feels. One day, you’re on top of the world because your...
You’ve done the work. You’ve put countless hours into crafting policies, training, and messaging to ...
Compliance programs are often over-utilized and under-funded. If we’re lucky, our budget is big enou...
Do you remember your Sex Ed class? Of course, everyone had a different experience, but I think the o...
It’s March! And for me, that means just one thing… bring on the basketball! 🏀 Remember, one of my v...
Did you know there is an actual day called “National Awkward Moments Day?” Well, neither did we!
If you haven’t been hiding under a rock lately, you know that a recession is likely on the way. Fort...
Anyone who's worked with Broadcat for more than a few months knows that we're big on attacking your ...
If you’ve read about our design process, you’ve seen that we approach developing our materials with ...
The first Big Game I remember watching was the 1985 contest, when my older brother and I sat on a sh...
They say ignorance is bliss, and for some things, that’s spot-on. When we’re at Disneyland, we don’t...
Recently, a few of our Broadcats (or, should we say, Podcats?) stepped up to the mic to speak with T...
I wrote about the Monaco memo last week, and we covered a lot. You can find that here.
Last fall, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco issued a follow-up to her October 2021 memo on the DO...
There’s an ongoing debate about whether testing out should be done for compliance training. The basi...
Picture this: The work is done. You’ve gathered the data. You’ve crunched numbers. You’ve SWOTted th...
Happy almost New Year, Team Broadcat! To celebrate the end of 2022, we’re taking a look back at some...
You think horror movies are scary? Try reading this article from Nate Dvorak at Gallup. He presents ...
No pressure or anything, but you only get one chance to make a first impression. And when you’re mee...
Let’s say you have a job aid that has some really important information on it about privacy policies...
We’ve all had that haunting feeling... LinkedIn suggests connecting with a specific industry contact...
Have you ever tried to explain your job to someone, and they immediately think that you do the corpo...
Here at Broadcat, designing compliance training materials that are useful and functional for our aud...
It’s no secret that we love leader-led compliance training. We’ve even created a whole line of produ...
Clearly communicating about healthcare privacy is hard, almost like asking someone to reprogram thei...
My mom has a way of always picking out just the right card for every occasion. My very favorite one ...
Ready for a hard truth, Team Broadcat? Q4 is just around the corner, it’s almost the end of the year...
Broadcat announces sustained investment to build content supporting privacy professionals According ...
We bet you’re proud of all your speak-up channels, huh?
Want to create an Ethics Ambassadors Program, but aren’t sure where to start? Or already have one, b...
You've done it! You’ve created a brilliant speak up campaign that’s completely transformed your comp...
Woah, the economy is rough right now. Budgets are tight and seemingly getting tighter. You may have ...
Greetings Broadcat Community: I recognize that I have been a bit quiet since having acquired Broadca...
At Broadcat, it’s no secret that we 💜 love 💜 using images and graphics. They’re super useful to gi...
Asking for money can be difficult or awkward.
Flowcharts. Checklists. Uber-graphic one-pagers. Each are super powerful tools that can make a signi...
Our beloved mascot, Broadcat, didn’t start out as the wonderful version we see today.
If you’re struggling with your compliance training, it might not be the content—it might be how you’...
Vanity metrics are metrics that sound impressive but don’t really impact your core goals. And they w...
Which compliance training method is the most effective: sessions led by the compliance team? E-learn...
As a salesperson, I’m at the mercy of a prospect’s budget. And compliance teams are always asking fo...
Every now and then, we get questions from compliance folks about how to reach employees who don’t ha...
Did you ever put in a ton of time into creating compliance training and then get frustrated when the...
Both, if you do it right.
"Not to sound too jaded, but compliance training is about reducing legal risk to the company because...
You’ve read the interview about what Department of Justice prosecutors look for in compliance traini...
So: you’ve been made responsible for compliance training at your company. You know you want to make ...
So you report to an old-school compliance officer or general counsel—the kind who steadfastly believ...
You know the feeling when you spend hours and hours drafting, editing, revising and re-drafting a do...
Last week, we released an interview with Hui Chen, the Department of Justice’s former compliance cou...
We're starting off 2021 the best way possible: full of awesome music! 🎶 That's right, it's time for...
We're finally winding down 2020, and that means getting ready to spend time with our families over t...
Let's start out with a little thought experiment.
Fun fact: if something goes really wrong at your company and your compliance training comes under fi...
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Want another way to have a big impact on your compliance email engagement? This blog post is for you...
Remember when we told you we wanted you to have access to the best and brightest that the compliance...
Last month we covered the basics of writing a great newsletter: from the actual words themselves to ...
How many times have you started writing your compliance newsletter—that you'll distribute to errrrry...
Apologies to Drake, but the best hotline posters are the ones that keep it simple. The less bling, t...
By now, most of us have attended at least one awkward Zoom conference. Heck, you’ve probably already...
Every person will need to attend live compliance training at least once in their career—where someon...
The Department of Justice revised their Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs last week, and o...
What can you do about inclusion as a corporate compliance officer?
We talk a big game here at Broadcat. Whether it be how we feel about compliance awareness week or ou...
We've got another special treat for y'all! This time, it's a guest post from my girl Jess Luna at Co...
“Compliance training is boring,” said everyone ever.
"YOU CAN'T ADVANCE YET. CLICK ON ALL THE KNOWLEDGE POINTS TO CONTINUE!" droned the training voiceove...
As I'm writing this sentence, Dallas County is about to go on a stay-at-home lockdown akin to what's...
Oh, hey: we’re now officially in a global pandemic. Fun.
The reason most compliance training does not work is that it's not training at all. It's education. ...
Hey hey, y’all! It’s Courtney, and I’ve been tapped to emcee the blog today! Though she doesn’t spel...
Ever had to work on a presentation or report (or whatever) and get bogged down in the Sisyphean task...
The other day, everyone at the office was looking at our most-played songs for 2019, and ... somethi...
One of the best places to learn about compliance design is an airport.
The compliance training space is DROWNING in stupid, corrosive, credibility-shattering myths. So let...
Hey guys, it’s almost Christmas, and you know what that means: TIME TO WATCH TEN MOVIES ON THE HALLM...
One of the most common things we talk about around Broadcat HQ is compliance training videos—probabl...
Have you ever toiled endlessly on a project—only to end up asking “hey, whatever happened to that?” ...
It’s here! Compliance Design Club: the simplest way to get a well-designed compliance program. And, ...
Hey, remember when the DOJ released their Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs and you were l...
You guys: we just got back from the SCCE’s annual conference—you know, Compliance Mardi Gras—and MY,...
So last month, I recommended this ex-in-house guy's blog to our Newsletter subscribers (not a subscr...
As a Broadcat Blog Reader (TM), we can safely assume two things about you.
There is probably no more soul-crushing task than being assigned to buy compliance training for a la...
Writing a clear, easy-to-understand compliance policy is hard—so hard that the Department of Justice...
Long-time readers will know we are fairly critical of compliance training videos, a fact that puts u...
In case you missed it: we got a major shout-out from Hui Chen in her Compliance Week keynote. Here’s...
In case you missed it: the Department of Justice just released their 2019 update to their Evaluation...
Quick: what does “just-in-time training” actually mean? And how is it different than “on-demand” tra...
Want to avoid a compliance training disaster? Want to ensure it will be useful and relevant and avoi...
One of the tough things about ethics and compliance is that it involves a lot of relatively complex,...
Does scoping out compliance training feel overwhelming?
Not just "could you show you've done compliance training." Could you defend what your training actua...
If you’ve been doing compliance for a while, you’ve probably had someone from your business ask you ...
Hey, check it out: our approach—and one of our job aids specifically—was named a behavioral complian...
Want your business to own compliance culture? Then you need to get your leaders involved in spreadin...
"Wait, so are you like the legal team?” How many times have you received that question? And how well...
Hey, we’ve been selected to be one of the companies in Praxis Labs’ 2019 class! Here's what that mea...
Back in May, we put out the word that we were hiring an “ex-lawyer." Here’s what happened.
At the moment, we’re doing a lot of strategy, research, and product development. I’m not gonna go in...
Time-based compliance training requirements—like "you have to do 3 hours each year"—are terrible and...
Broadcat is like 80% millennials. And that means we can get treated like aliens at compliance confer...
If you’ve been following us, you know that we think employees should not have to memorize compliance...
I’m speaking at an academic conference on compliance measurement at UC-Irvine this weekend—so in the...
We love operationalizing compliance. We started writing about what it actually means back in April 2...
Most compliance training is awful, and we usually misdiagnose why.
If you stopped doing compliance training tomorrow, would anything change at your company? That is, w...
Do you ever feel like managing corporate compliance training is an impossible, never-ending task?
I recently went on a field trip to a major retailer's distribution center. I sat in with the newest ...
A blip in the market shouldn't make you nervous—unless you're not sure of the ROI of your compliance...
Or is it just designed to generate a lot of busywork? And can you tell the difference?
If you read our blog, you are probably on board with the concept that corporate compliance should pr...
Now that I run a company, it is sometimes embarrassing to look back at my in-house career and realiz...
So here's the thing: we think saying "you need to do formal, annual compliance training" is overblow...
If you are a Chief Compliance Officer, what's your move if you: - Are forced to lie or cover somethi...
If you want to prove your compliance program works, you have to make a business case for it. Because...
Hey, what’s the business case for your compliance program?
Here's an excerpt from our book, "Why most compliance training fails... and how to fix it."
The idea for creating standardized icons came from a client meeting, but it’s not what the client or...
Here's something lots of well-meaning compliance people say that can cause a lot of unintentional ch...
Earlier this week, I recorded an episode of Leona Lewis' Masters of Disaster podcast.
“Cool, thanks for this. I’ll definitely pretend to read it.” - your employees, getting your latest c...
This post is by Ryan, our design lead. I recruited Ryan from a digital strategy agency a little over...
In case you missed it: Hui Chen, the DOJ’s outgoing compliance expert, weighed in on compliance trai...
Quick, what compliance risk keeps you up at night? Got it? Good. That risk should, from your employe...
Yep, we took down our Facebook page today. Here's why.
Courtney and I just got back from Compliance Week, where I was presenting with Jen and Shawn from Wa...
How do you allocate your compliance training budget? Does the majority go to high-level, all-employe...
We are pro-vacation at Broadcat.
Next week, I’ll be moderating a panel at the Compliance Week conference between two friends of ours:...
You hear a lot about instant gratification. Especially in the context of working with millennials.
You probably do not like online compliance training.