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Originally published in Training Magazine at https://trainingmag.com/is-traditional-compliance-training-dead/. Written by Harper Wells, CCO, Learning Pool

Most compliance professionals are accustomed to evaluating—and reevaluating—emerging and existing risks to their organizations and implementing effective compliance programs to safeguard against them. But as compliance professionals well know, all compliance programs aren’t created equally—not even close.

Originally published in Training Magazine at https://trainingmag.com/evolving-your-compliance-training-toward-the-new-doj-guidance/

In 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice shook up the compliance world once again by updating its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance. The document is intended as a reference of questions prosecutors can ask organizations during an investigation, but it also acts as a blueprint for how companies should be structuring their compliance programs.

Well, we made it to 2021.

I think most of us came into this year just happy we turned the page on 2020, and were cautiously optimistic for something – err, anything – better than the personal and collective hand we were dealt last year. But with the disturbing events that have occurred within the first week of January, the bar is still quite low.

So how do you focus to set up a winning formula for 2021? Here are five things to do right now: