Article: Training And Communications That Encourage Reporting
For years, LeadGood has broken new ground on training and communications that moves the needle on reporting. Our bespoke courses, innovative approaches and hands-on consulting have helped many organizations and leaders — from the Fortune 100 to government to education — effectively foster a speak-up culture. This new article by LeadGood President Jason Meyer and Amy McDougal, JD, […]
For national panel, Meyer discusses our freedom to speak up in the current popular culture.
I’m a big supporter of being assertive and speaking up. I’m a former journalist in a family of journalists. I started out as a first amendment lawyer. And as a compliance professional I work to help businesses encourage speaking-up in their ranks, as a powerful tool for both operational and ethical excellence. (So I’m super […]
Virtually excited for the 2020 Compliance and Ethics Institute
This week – Sept. 14-16 — Is the annual Compliance and Ethics Institute sponsored by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), of which I am a proud member. I been on the faculty of the Institute for each of the last seven years, and I am not about to miss the #CEI this […]
A Greeting Card for Businesses in the Time of Coronavirus
We have a timely present for your business or organization. I was chatting last week with several of my good friends in the compliance sector: Nicole Rose of CreateTraining, the Australia-based education and training company that has produced several powerful animations for LeadGood clients; Richard Bistrong of CEO Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC, the well-known anti-bribery consultant and […]
#SB50Ethics If You’re Thinking Ethics During Super Bowl
Had a fun little idea I want to spread. If you are watching the “Big Game” Sunday Feb. 7 (or the “Big Pre-Game” or the “Big Post-Game”), and a pithy thought pops into your head about ethics, or compliance, or business leadership and culture, please join me in using the hashtag #SB50Ethics. And if you […]
Tone at the Very Top: The Umpire Strikes Back
The other shoe has dropped. I wrote last month about concerns that the Justice Department may have gotten off to the wrong foot, tone-wise, following its “Yates Memo” declaration that it intended to prosecute individuals within companies for their organization’s wrongdoing. But, as Mike Volkov so well summarizes, the top enforcer on this playing field quickly found a case […]
Tone at the Very Top, DOJ-Style
As compliance professionals and leadership counselors, we focus on “tone at the top.” What the C-Suite says is critical to establishing an ethical culture in an organization. What is even more important to foster that culture is whether top executives speak and act consistently. We advise our leaders that even one act of apparent hypocrisy, or of “looking […]
Two Things Watching The Oscars Taught Me About Ethics and Compliance
Last Sunday, three of us compliance lawyer types had ourselves a virtual Oscar Party. We three – Amy Hutchens (CCEP), President of CLEAResources; Kirsten Hotchkiss, now an employment and employee relations counsel with American Express Global Business Travel, and I (President of LeadGood, and also CCEP)– conducted an experiment with the following hypothesis: IF the […]
More About Our Live-Blog: “Ethics and the Oscars”
What’s this live blog all about? Our focus tonight, as we watch the OSCARs, is on the little messages in the speeches, the commentary, on the carpet, and in the commercials – those little messages that can reinforce or dismantle an ethical culture. There are theaters full of other, more learned critics of the movies. […]
“How To Destroy Morale in 4 Easy Steps”
Thanks to @EthiFocus for bringing my attention to this bit of research in a Washington Post blog: How to destroy employee morale in 4 easy steps. These are also four do-nots if you care about Tone at the Top.