Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Seven Nobody-Reads-Manuals Tips for Compliance Propagation


Compliance dos, don’ts, and legalese can sound to employees like the "WAH, WA-WAH, WAH" of adults speaking in Charlie Brown cartoons. How can companies turn policy guidance from indecipherable noise into integrated action?

“We are not in the business to make sure that we comply with things. We need to comply with things as part of how we do business,” Carolee Birchall, Bank of Montreal.

Compliance dos, don’ts, and legalese can sound to employees like the "WAH, WA-WAH, WAH" of adults speaking in Charlie Brown cartoons. To effectively institute behavioral change and establish a preventative culture of compliance, organizations are embedding compliance controls, policies, and procedures into day-to-day operating procedures—turning policy guidance from indecipherable noise into integrated action.

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