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Last year, a senior official at a major firm conducted meetings on ethics and compliance with hundreds of professionals on the front lines. He took special care to describe the very real commitment to ethics held by the firm’s CEO, and thought he was doing a terrific job at conveying and modeling “tone at the top.” Halfway through one session, however, he was taken aback when one of the meeting participants raised his hand and said “I don’t know the CEO. I’ll probably never meet him. He has no impact on my life. But if you can tell me what my manager is committed to, this might be important to me.”

This true story illustrates a very real challenge we hear from ethics and compliance leaders all the time: “How do we engage middle management?”

We are pleased to offer an additional tool to help you engage middle managers and shape the tone at the middle: the Compliance Communicator.

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Managers complain of information overload from all sources, including ethics and compliance. To break through, communications need to be timely, relevant and useful. Managers need to see the communications you provide them as a tool to help them be more successful leaders, not as a vehicle to help you check a box.

Compliance Communicator is shaped to reflect this reality.

Each week, the Compliance Communicator will email you summaries of 5-10 news stories that you may find useful in communicating with leaders in your company. Making ethics and compliance come alive is critical, and chances are that at least one of the stories will be relevant to your firm.

Each month, you will receive a newsletter that contains

• A case study or other vehicle that your managers can use to engage their employees in a discussion of ethics/compliance.
• Topical and timely tips for you, the ethics/compliance professional, to use to help build the “tone at the middle.”
• A cartoon or other illustration that you will be licensed to use to build a culture of integrity with your employees and managers.

When there is breaking news on ethics and compliance issues, we will provide you with special coverage and insight. For example, last week’s fraud at Société Générale offers a great opportunity for you to reinforce the importance of ethics and compliance with your managers, and for them to discuss fraud prevention with their people.

Annual subscriptions carry the low cost of $1,395, while the value of keeping your managers engaged and informed is immeasurable.

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