A Best Practices Ethics Program will fulfill the mandate of the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines, and strongly promote a culture of compliance and ethics throughout your company.
Code of Conduct
The cornerstone of any effective program is a professional quality Code of Conduct. A proper Code of Conduct is a valuable resource and reference guide that is written in accessible language and designed for maximum impact on your corporate culture. A Best Practices Code of Conduct will be used by employees in their daily ethical decision making process, and will communicate to those both inside and out that ethics and compliance is a top priority at your company. As the leading ethics training provider, the RedHawk Ethics Solution has been producing Best Practices Codes of Conduct for corporations of all sizes since 1992.
Annual Code of Conduct Training is a minimum requirement for a meaningful program. Companies that offer a progressive, skill-building Code of Conduct training program that provides a more sophisticated and relevant training experience with each successive year will see the greatest results and will ultimately be creating an effective program. The RedHawk Ethics Solution’s Multi-year Code of Conduct Training Program will take learners from a novice-level understanding of the Code of Conduct to a high-level awareness of and sensitivity to ethics and compliance issues and concerns.
Ethics Training for Targeted Groups
More in-depth ethics training in compliance risk areas for targeted groups is essential for communicating the correct level of information to those in need of deeper knowledge. Knowing who those groups are and what information they need is as much a part of risk mitigation as the actual deployment of ethics training. Our comprehensive Ethics and Compliance Training Library, coupled with our Ethics Consulting Services, can help you deploy the right ethics and compliance training to the right populations without undue stress or expense.
Ongoing Ethics Training Efforts
Even the most robust ethics training solution will never be enough to ensure that ethics and compliance is top-of-mind for employees on a truly consistent basis. An ongoing campaign of ethics and compliance communications is required to ensure that key concepts are reinforced regularly, and that your environment is saturated with messages that will permeate the organization at the cultural level. Our Ethics Communication CoachSM (ECC), a suite of hundreds of fully customizable ethics communications tools such as articles, posters, brochures, mini-training courses and much more, provides an enterprise-wide ethics communications method that couldn’t be easier to deploy. Keep messages regarding ethics and compliance topics, as well as reporting obligations and your company’s hotline in front of employees.
Tone at the Top & Tone at the Middle
An effective program starts with a strong Tone at the Top. Using your Code of Conduct, Ethics Training courses, Communications Tools, and other methods, the RedHawk Ethics Solution can help you keep the CEO’s commitment to an organizational culture of ethics front and center in your program. We also recommend methods for establishing a Tone at the Middle, which starts with real buy-in from managers throughout the organization. Today, program elements that encourage discussion about ethics between employees and their well-educated managers in the area of ethics and compliance must be considered a best practice. Some of the most sophisticated corporate compliance offices in the United States have enlisted our help in creating such a solution, and we now are able to make this available to all companies through a simple to use, budget friendly Discussion-based Ethics Training tool.
Global Reach in Ethics Training
Of course, any best practices ethics program will have taken global perspectives into account before rolling out ethics training and communications to their international audiences. This includes creating materials that are equally powerful in languages other than English and are equally meaningful when viewed through multiple cultural lenses. This can be a challenge in the implementation of any ethics and compliance training program, which is why the RedHawk Ethics Solution has enjoyed an intimate, long-standing partnership with a thought-leader in the area of globalization, worldwide translation, localization, and cultural perspectives.
In summary, the RedHawk Ethics Solution has a proven track record of providing all of the elements of a best practices program to companies of all sizes, including those with a significant number of employees deployed across the globe. Contact Us for more information about any of our solutions. We sincerely look forward to getting to know you, and to advising you about how our programs can be best tailored for maximum impact in your organization.