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What Are
You Doing for Compliance and Ethics Week?
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doesn’t love a good party? Let’s celebrate ourselves with a fun and exciting
Compliance and Ethics Week. A successful Compliance and Ethics Week can really
boost the profile of your program. Whether you bring in games, prizes, or food
(did somebody say donuts?), celebrating the compliance and ethics program makes
a huge difference.
When
is Compliance and Ethics Week?
Fun fact
– Compliance and Ethics Week was first celebrated in 2005. Since then, many
companies have adopted it to highlight the importance of compliance and ethics.
It’s a chance to bring people together to understand the contours of the
program while hopefully injecting some fun.
This year
it’s officially scheduled for November 3 – 9. But who cares? Many companies
hold their celebrations at other times. We at Spark Compliance help
clients create Compliance and Ethics Week activities for dates from Valentine’s
Day to Thanksgiving. It doesn’t matter when Compliance and Ethics Week
falls on the calendar.
Living
in a Hybrid World
At many
companies, a major challenge is having Compliance and Ethics Week events that
are virtual or hybrid. Bad will could be created when “Cupcakes with
Compliance” excludes everyone working from home.
Here are
more than 20 Compliance and Ethics Week ideas, all of which can be done
virtually if needed. They’re divided into four categories: competitions, win
prizes, gifts, and fun media. Let’s dig in.
Competitions
Compliance
Competitor Online Business Simulation Game:
Compliance
Competitor Online Business Simulation Game: Spark Compliance offers a fantastic
business simulation game for high-risk employees called Compliance
Competitor. Teams compete through complex, multi-compliance, and
ethics-laden scenarios to get the highest revenue, best stock price, and lowest
fines. It trips people up because none of the answers are completely right,
leading to intense discussion. Best of all, it’s completely customizable for
your company. Find out more and schedule a demo at www.compliancecompetitor.com.
Scandal
Quiz:
Who
doesn’t love a good scandal? One way to get folks involved is to create a
scandal quiz to test people’s knowledge of the compliance and fraud-related
scandals in the news. From classics like Bernie Madoff to outrageous fraud
cases, you can keep the news junkies entertained and allow them to flaunt their
knowledge. You can also include questions relating to your company. For
instance, “How many whistleblower complaints did we get in the past 12 months?”
You can
run the quiz online via survey tools (e.g., SurveyMonkey) and give a prize for
the highest score. The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics has put
together a great starting place with sample questions which you can access HERE.
This link is from 2021, and I couldn’t find an updated version, but it’s still
a good starting place.
Best
Tagline/Meme Overlay:
To get
people’s minds thinking about compliance and ethics messaging, hold a
competition for the best tagline, or put out a series of pictures with a call
to action to describe what is being said.
Make sure
compliance is judging them privately as some employees may come up with
less-than-acceptable-for-work answers! Take the cleverest answers and publish
them on your intranet site or in a company-wide email. People’s creativity will
surprise you and employees will enjoy seeing their co-worker’s sense of humor.
Win
a Prize
Social
Media Commentary:
Throughout
Compliance and Ethics week, put daily compliance and ethics-related posts on
your company’s internal social media site. Whether it’s Yammer, Facebook for
Business, or simply an internal blog, prepare your content and get set for
comments.
Write the
name of each commenter on a raffle ticket kept with the compliance officer. At
the end of the week, pull the names of the winners of the prizes. People can
enter multiple times by posting throughout the week, which will keep engagement
high. Want even more engagement? Record the moment when you pick the winners
and post the video to your internal social media site.
Responding
to Your Survey:
Create a
survey to have employees tell you about their experience with the compliance
program. This doesn’t have to be a formal E&C survey – after all, it can’t
be anonymous if you’re entering people in a prize drawing for completing it!
Giving people a chance to share their opinions with you can give you insight
into how you can improve your program. They’ll be much more motivated to do so
if there’s a potential prize attached. Top tip: make the survey short – five
questions or less – so that people finish it.
Reposting
or Sharing Compliance Content:
If you’re
posting content throughout Compliance and Ethics week on your internal social
networks, give a raffle ticket each time a person shares compliance-related
content or re-shares the posts by the compliance and ethics department. Put a
rule in place that tickets are assigned only for shares that include some sort
of comment or question rather than a straight share without further effort.
This will extend the reach of your posts on your internal system and show
employees that others are engaged.
Gifts
- Jam:
Get a custom label that says, “Compliance is my jam.”
- Mugs:
Purchase mugs with the phrase, “Compliance is my cup of tea.”
- Chocolates/Candies:
Order little boxes with candies in them that say, “Compliance is sweet.”
- Reusable
Bags: Order reusable bags with the phrase, “Ethics is my bag.”
- Order
Cooler Bags: Order re-freezable ice bags that say, “Compliance is cool.”
There are
many companies that sell these types of customizable gifts at low prices when
ordered in bulk. For example, check out 4imprint.com or Vistaprint.com.
Fun
Media
External
Videos:
Check in
with your eLearning training provider to see if they have any short videos that
could be sent to the company via email or posted to the internal social media
sites. You can also search out YouTube videos if your company allows it. Try THIS ONE to
start, because who doesn’t love a compliance musical tribute?
Memes:
Most of
us have a favorite meme that’s a picture with a funny or ironic statement
overlayed onto it. Memes are great because they can be added as a visual to
email or posted to your internal social network. Matt Kelly of the website Radical
Compliance has a fantastic collection of memes that are free to
use, as does Sprinto.
Internal
TV:
Many
companies have an internal television station that can be used to disseminate
messages or other content. If your company has this, make content for
Compliance and Ethics week. This can include a short video message from your
CEO, trivia about risk and scandal, memes (see above), or information about the
speak-up hotline. The internal TV station can also play videos from outside
providers.
Professional
Speakers:
Getting a
professional speaker to address the company can be a bonding experience.
Whether the speaker is motivational, cautionary, or fact-driven, material from
a great speaker can provide the basis for continuing conversation.
I’ve
performed keynote speeches for Compliance and Ethics Week at companies from
London to Las Vegas (more info HERE). For
the past three years, most have been either remote or held in one location but
streamed to others and to home offices.
Start
Somewhere:
Compliance
and Ethics Week doesn’t have to be fancy to be successful. You can simply
create a banner for your internal social media or an email from your leadership
acknowledging the importance of compliance and ethics at your company.
The good
news is that you can build year-on-year. Who knows? Maybe you’ll have such a
good time that by next year, people will be coming to you asking when the fun
begins.
Well, there
you have it!
With a
little pre-planning, the week can create a buzz for the program that lasts all
year. So, what are your plans for the Compliance and Ethics Week?
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