tailieunhanh - Board Engagement, Training and Reporting: Strategies for the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer

Additions or deletions of participating sites that provide an educational experience required for all residents of one month FTE (four weeks) or more must be submitted through the Accreditation Data System (ADS). Information to be entered in ADS for each participating site besides that in the PLA includes the distance (in miles) and time (in minutes) from the primary teaching site and whether the participating site is integrated (for those specialties that use that term). Changes in sites that provide only elective experiences are not required to be submitted through ADS but may be entered, especially if needed for. | Excerpted from The Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual 2nd Edition Copyright 2010 Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. Reprinted with permission. Board Engagement Training and Reporting Strategies for the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer By Donna C. Boehme1 There is too much information. We spend too much time looking at things that are okay. We need to figure out how to concentrate on what is really important. 2009 National Association of Corporate Directors Blue Ribbon Report2 Overview Board engagement training and reporting is a critical but often overlooked area of practice for the chief ethics and compliance officer CECO . In 20 years of practicing in the field both as in-house CECO and outside advisor I ve encountered countless programs that have on paper all the elements of an effective program as envisioned by the US Federal Sentencing Guidelines FSG and other standards. Many of these programs are implemented with the best of intentions and feature most if not all the FSG bells and whistles. Yet so many lack the key foundational components necessary to make those programs actually work as intended active knowledgeable Board engagement and a visible mandate from the top of the organization. Little practical advice has been offered about engaging training and reporting to the Board for the likely reason that most CECOs are struggling just to get some face time on the Board or Audit Committee agenda and the profession is in a learning curve with rapidly evolving practice in this space. At the same time a number of high-profile settlements and important policy developments have bolstered the case for heightened Board oversight through direct unfiltered reporting by CECOs to the governing authority. A recent RAND Symposium Directors as Guardians of Compliance and Ethics within the Corporate Citadel What the Policy Community Should Know 3 RAND Directors Symposium explored the role of director oversight of compliance and ethics with some important .