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  • Ensure discipline is fair and consistent no matter who’s involved or their role with this step-by-step guide.

    Fair and consistent discipline

    Inconsistent discipline throughout your org can leave employees feeling confused and frustrated, and may lead to legal troubles too. No bueno! Save the day by sharing this step-by-step guide with your people managers to ensure discipline is fair and...

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  • This tool helps quickly answer the question, “Who really needs this guidance?” so you can tailor the content to their roles and activities.

    Who should get this training?

    Training everyone on everything is exhausting—for you and the org. It hurts your rep by making compliance feel like an irrelevant formality. But can you really do this differently? Yes! Tailor your training and reminders to the folks who pose the...

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  • This checklist simplifies the investigation report drafting process and guides your investigators through everything they need to include—from initial timelines to root causes.

    Writing a good investigation report

    After all the effort that goes into a quality workplace investigation, writing a report that’s both concise and comprehensive can seem exhausting. But you need to memorialize that effort and it’s not something you can afford to get wrong...

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  • This thorough checklist guides you through the final review to ensure nothing fell through the cracks and your investigation report is courtroom ready.

    Finalizing the investigation report

    You’ve completed a thorough and thoughtful investigation, determined root causes, and have great ideas for how to resolve the issue and keep it from happening again. You’ve even written a fab report using our Writing a good investigation...

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  • If you’ve ever struggled to explain your job to someone, we feel you! The lines are often blurry when trying to distinguish between legal, compliance, HR, and internal audit. Which also means urgent info might take a few detours before arriving at the right destination (or get lost along the way!).

Demystify who does what with this handy chart, and look forward to receiving important info that actually belongs in your department, while spending a lot less time sending those “looping in so-and-so” emails. 

Looking for a pared-down version that works just as hard? Try the “Legal and Compliance: Who Does What?” infographic.

    Legal, Compliance, Audit, and HR: Who does what?

    If you’ve ever struggled to explain your job to someone, we feel you! The lines are often blurry when trying to distinguish between legal, compliance, HR, and internal audit. Which also means urgent info might take a few detours before arriving at...

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  • Mergers and acquisitions can be both exciting and terrifying, like base jumping, that long drop on a rollercoaster, or attending a social event for us introverts. While we don’t have a remedy for that weird stomach feeling, we do have a solution to ease some of your anxiety...  Prepare your employees for the integration with this one-pager that carefully lists everything to do (and not to do) premerger. Share this gun-jumping infographic for extra impact.

    Before a merger or acquisition...

    Mergers and acquisitions can be both exciting and terrifying, like base jumping, that long drop on a rollercoaster, or attending a social event for us introverts. While we don’t have a remedy for that weird stomach feeling, we do have a solution to...

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  • Do you know your international customers?

    Do you know your international customers?

    Some compliance teams have sophisticated software that checks for sanctions. But those of us who don’t have fancy pants spy-level programs need to do a little more digging to ensure that our international customers are legit.  That’s...

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  • The Helpline Chronicles

    The Helpline Chronicles

    We recognize that not everyone fancies themselves a writer, so we've done the hard part and created this plug-and-play template for real life scenarios. Since the helpline is uncharted territory for many folks, uncertainty about what happens after they...

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  • How a manager can create inclusion

    How a manager can create inclusion

    Let’s be real, when it comes to being a manager, the people stuff is usually the hardest part of the job. And being asked to be “inclusive” can raise anxiety levels even further: How exactly do I do that? Am I doing something wrong? Is...

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  • Creating a speak up culture

    Creating a speak up culture

    You can preach “speaking up” until you’re blue in the face, but if your managers aren’t echoing the message—or even worse, unintentionally discouraging it—it’s not going to make a difference. And that’s sad...

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  • How to speak up and handle tough conversations

    How to speak up and handle tough conversations

    Imagine a world where employees are empowered and skilled at working out their ethics and compliance concerns themselves—before tensions escalate and managers, HR, and/or your helpline investigators have to step in...[insert clouds parting and...

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  • Our labor standards

    Our labor standards

    You have high standards—labor standards, that is. And you want your suppliers to share these values too.  This infographic makes it clear that—when it comes to treating employees with dignity and respect—no one better be lurking...

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  • Has an employee come to you with a concern?

    Has an employee come to you with a concern?

    You nailed your speak-up campaign. Now it's time to build on that foundation and give your managers the perfect listen-up tool to handle those delicate intake conversations. Since it’s likely that employees will go to their supervisor with...

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  • Legal and Compliance: Who Does What?

    Legal and Compliance: Who Does What?

    You’ve been asked it; this chart explains it. Set out for your employees the different roles and responsibilities of legal and compliance. Your compliance allies aren’t just in compliance; they’re also part of the legal team. Use this...

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  • Before you close the investigation file, make sure...

    Before you close the investigation file, make sure...

    This simple checklist reminds your investigative team of how to effectively close out and document an investigation. Before an investigation team moves on, there are about a dozen elements of documentation and communication that must occur. It’s...

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  • Approving employee transfers?

    Approving employee transfers?

    Transfers aren’t simply logistics—they involve trade, IT, and ethics issues, too. Use this simple checklist to confirm relevant issues have been vetted before the employee is already at their new desk. Not only does this piece work across...

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  • The 7 elements of a compliance program

    The 7 elements of a compliance program

    Based on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, this infographic sets out the seven elements to create and monitor an effective compliance culture—and helps you explain it to your board. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines aren’t known for being...

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  • Template: Visual Legal Hold

    Template: Visual Legal Hold

    Help employees easily understand their obligations when lawsuits happen. When litigation lands, it’s critical that employees know how to navigate a legal hold. Why, then, are so many of them basically unreadable mountains of legalese? Use this...

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  • Received an Employee Concern?

    Received an Employee Concern?

    This elegant guide shows exactly where to go within the company when issues pop up: HR, compliance, or both. A lot of really smart managers and employees don’t know the difference between HR and compliance—the two teams’...

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  • Competitive Information: New Hire Screening

    Competitive Information: New Hire Screening

    Hiring someone from a competitor? You've got risks. This guide breaks down responsibilities and tasks to make sure everyone is coordinated—and it works as a record for due diligence, too! In the rush to hire someone, it’s easy to forget that...

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  • Contract terms checklist

    Contract terms checklist

    Want your transactional teams to think like compliance? Show them how with this thorough checklist for key terms required for every company contract. In the hurry to finish a deal, even the sharpest of transactional lawyers can miss important compliance...

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  • Would you trade on it?

    Would you trade on it?

    This graphic guide simplifies the types of information that should be protected to avoid insider trading. Without getting too far in the weeds of securities terminology (woof), this piece highlights common categories of material non-public...

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  • Insider Trading Basics

    Insider Trading Basics

    Gordon Gekko may think that greed is good, but your company doesn't when it comes to insider trading. Educate your employees on the basics with this graphic piece. Aimed at a general audience, this piece lays out three common categories of material...

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