Compliance training, or training compliance?

Banks, insurance companies, pension funds and many more companies in other industries struggle to cope with the increasingly complex regulatory landscape: how can they manage regulatory risks and foster a strong compliance culture? The role of the compliance officer is obviously to enable this; to play a part in this as trainer, coach or consultant. But how does a compliance officer get trained themselves? What skills and traits does a compliance officer need to perform successfully, to get some job satisfaction and to grow as a person, and more importantly; how do they gain and retain those skills?
In my professional network, both as a compliance officer and as a trainer, I often meet frustrated compliance officers, who feel that they cannot make a difference. They struggle to get their advice across, being seen as operating from an ivory tower; a dinosaur without understanding of business challenges. As a teacher, I notice the same. Groups have changed over the years. To min...

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1. Awareness programs: one-way street or dead-end street?

2. The world we live in

2.1. Smartphones and social media

2.2. Criminal creativity

2.3. ESG

2.4. Profit

3. Survival of the fittest

4. Fitness program

4.1. Awareness training

4.2. Whiteboard sessions with team

4.3. Peer review

4.4. Working the external network

4.5. Working the internal network

4.6. Look at award winning photographs

4.7. Be recognized as a person

4.8. Ask

5. Awareness is a two-way street

6. Summary