Creating a culture of Compliance - Continuous Communication Creating a Culture of Compliance can be a difficult task given the many moving pieces, but there are several benefits. In this post, we will be considering the topic of Continuous Communication to help build a culture of compliance. A company that only deals with problems [...]
“It wasn’t in the compliance training materials.” That’s a phrase most compliance officers don’t want to hear from their colleagues or employees, especially if something they did triggered an investigation or lawsuit. Hearing something like that should raise tons of red flags, not only from a legal perspective, but also from a training viewpoint. [...]
How Much Does It Cost to Produce an Online eLearning Course? As an eLearning development firm, this is the most common question we hear — and the most honest answer is: it depends. But that answer is only useful if you understand what it depends on. Here is a practical breakdown of what drives [...]
Compliance Training - PowerPoint Course vs Paid Options A corporate contact recently asked me to help justify paying for an online compliance training course when the company had a good PowerPoint slide deck that employees and partners could review and sign upon completion. The question of PowerPoint deck vs professional training courses really depends on [...]
There's a new European data privacy regulation coming into full effect in May 2018 called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - will your organization be ready? The GDPR is designed to establish a single set of rules for data protection across Europe, replacing the patchwork of national data protection laws that were enacted [...]
With President Obama’s recent historic trip to Cuba, there has been a lot of focus on the future of the longstanding US embargo on Cuba. Obama’s trip capped off an 18 month period during which the US Government amended some of the embargo rules in an effort to begin charting a new course in US-Cuba [...]
In the world of data privacy law, when we refer to the “Privacy Shield,” we aren’t talking about a cardboard contraption to keep people from looking at your laptop screen. If you haven’t heard about it yet, the EU-US Privacy Shield is a newly proposed set of rules and regulations governing the legally authorized transfer [...]
A recent study by Cisco, Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2015–2020 White Paper, confirmed the videos popularity on the internet. Here are some of the quick statistics and predictions sumerized by ReelSEO: By 2020, over 75% of global mobile data traffic will be video content. In U.S. video will account for 77% of total [...]
Xcelus introduces a new simple animation course style, Blueprint, for compliance and corporate training. Xcelus develops over 100 custom training courses each year in a variety of formats from simple animation to full video production. All custom courses can be published in SCORM, AICC or MP4 formats depending on the course type and [...]
Andrew Ceresney, Director, SEC Division of Enforcement, recently spoke at the 31st International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Andrew discussed the latest developments in the SEC’s FCPA enforcement. His remarks focused on four areas: Focus on Individuals Individual accountability is critical to FCPA enforcement — and imposing personal consequences on bad actors, including through [...]
