Future Focus

What does the future hold for the field of compliance and for compliance professionals everywhere? Here are a few ideas that might sound good.

1. Compliance people are in high demand – every business wants more of them.
2. Compliance people get the respect they deserve.
3. Compliance is considered vital to any company that hopes to grow and thrive.
4. Nobody ever anywhere takes compliance for granted ever again.
5. Compliance officers everywhere serve on every company’s Board of Directors.
6. Someone is nominating compliance staff members for higher positions, better pay, and more respect.
7. Kids all over the world dream of someday becoming a compliance professional.
8. Awards are given for the best compliance staff in every business.
9. Everyone everywhere says thanks to compliance staff for all they do.
10. Every CEO thanks their compliance staff for all the help they give (and all the penalties they’ve helped avoid).
11. No business leader anywhere will ever, ever, ever ignore the compliance officer and staff.
12. Annual award dinner for compliance staff who have helped save their company from disaster.
13. Volunteers within corporations line up to help spread compliance updates when things change.
14. Memos, newsletters, and online posts announce the compliance professional of the month and how he/she helped their company.
15. CEOs everywhere apologize if they ignore or downplay the compliance team.
16. Compliance history, standards, development, and achievements are subjects in every university.
17. Everybody knows what compliance is, what it does, and why it matters.
18. Workers everywhere are eager for compliance training to help them do their jobs.
19. Compliance awareness grows stronger and stronger.
20. Authors write adventure stories about compliance heroes.
21. Compliance staff will hold their heads up high, knowing they make a positive difference for their company, their co-workers, their leadership, and people everywhere.

© 2024 K. Leet

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These are stories (usually fictional, but not always), based on insights and experiences from the world of compliance & ethics.