Elements in the Culture of Compliance: Part III

By |2026-03-10T12:43:50-06:00March 17th, 2021|Compliance Blog, Culture of Compliance|

We conclude our series on how to create and maintain a culture of compliance, recognizing the rapidly changing world of contemporary business. What was true six months ago may no longer adequately describe today’s business environment. That’s why the department responsible for communications and training on compliance issues must stay ahead of the changes – both internally and externally. Continuous updates could easily overwhelm the average employee unless they are structured and incorporated into simple, social, mobile, and powerful [...]

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Elements in the Culture of Compliance: Part II

By |2026-03-10T12:41:38-06:00March 17th, 2021|Compliance Blog, Culture of Compliance|

Culture of Convenience vs Culture of Compliance Part I demonstrated what it takes to foster a company-wide “Culture of Compliance” through continuous communication. Compliance courses and proper communication of company compliance objectives are crucial to establishing an effective culture of compliance. Multiple Touch Points However, compliance training doesn't have to end when the initial compliance course is finished. By communicating compliance only once a year, employees adopt a culture of convenience – not compliance. The real culture of compliance [...]

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Three Elements in a Culture of Compliance: Part I

By |2026-03-10T12:38:55-06:00March 16th, 2021|Compliance Blog|

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 as they become obvious is setting itself up for failure, leading to a climate of putting out fires instead of preventing them. Employees are most [...]

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Compliance Training – Off-the-Shelf vs. Customized Courses

By |2021-03-17T09:07:02-06:00March 10th, 2021|Compliance Blog, Todd's Blog|

“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. It potentially indicates that the compliance department either failed to convey crucial information in their compliance training, or worse, failed to include it in the [...]

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How much does it cost to produce an online elearning course?

By |2026-04-01T13:55:06-06:00February 12th, 2021|eLearning, Todd's Blog, Training, Training Videos|

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 eLearning course development costs, what you should expect at different price points, and the questions any vendor will ask before they can give you an [...]

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Compliance Training – PowerPoint Course vs Paid Options – is it Worth the Cost?

By |2026-04-02T07:23:27-06:00May 11th, 2017|Blog/News, Todd's Blog, Training, Xcelus|

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 a company’s compliance training purposes and philosophy. Is the goal to just check a box to ensure that training was completed? Or is it to [...]

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Why You Need To Start Preparing Now For New EU Data Privacy Rules

By |2026-09-01T16:03:21-06:00May 10th, 2017|Blog/News, Compliance Blog, Data Privacy|

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 in the 28 European Union member states under the EU Data Protection Directive. It is important to learn about this regulation now and to start preparing [...]

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Want To Travel to Cuba, or Do Business There? Read This First

By |2016-12-28T13:21:43-07:00May 31st, 2016|Compliance Blog, Culture of Compliance, Export Controls, FCPA / Anti-bribery|

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 relations. Although some of these rules have been revised to allow certain types of interactions between the US and Cuba, these opportunities are fairly limited [...]

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Video is taking over the Internet

By |2016-12-28T13:21:43-07:00February 19th, 2016|Blog/News|

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 mobile data traffic by 2020, up from 61% in 2015 Video accounted for 55% of mobile traffic in 2015. Smartphones will account for 81% of [...]

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Blueprint Course Style

By |2017-07-12T13:22:02-06:00January 29th, 2016|Todd's Blog, Xcelus News Blog|

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 your hosting/LMS requirements.  Xcelus uses standard development tools from Articulate, iSpring, and Adobe. In addition to the course, Xcelus provides corresponding posters and postcards. [...]

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