Summary: <a href="https://www.complianceandethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/turteltaub-adam-200x200.jpg"></a>By <a href="mailto:adam.turteltaub@corporatecompliance.org">Adam Turteltaub</a><br> <br> Stamford Health has just a bit less than 4000 employees spread out in over 40 local offices. For some that would be a nightmare when figuring out how to put together a celebration of <a href="https://www.hcca-info.org/about-hcca/corporate-compliance-ethics-week">Corporate Compliance & Ethics Week</a>, but it’s not for <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/cheryl-gilbert">Cheryl Gilbert</a>, the director of compliance and privacy.<br> <br> To make the annual event work she uses a wide range of communications vehicles to get the word out. The organization has a new employee orientation every other week, and compliance is a part of it. The organizational newsletter, which publishes twice each week, is also put to use. So, too, is the compliance intranet site.<br> <br> What aren’t used? Posters. The team found that the effort involved in creating them, putting them up and taking them down just wasn’t worth it.<br> <br> To make the week fun they have developed a wide range of activities including a:<br> <br> * Haiku contest. Employees are challenged to write a haiku based on the organizations core values.<br> * Where’s Waldo type game in which employees have to spot all the breaches on a messy desktop.<br> * Question of the day.<br> * Word search, which is probably the most popular of all.<br> <br> There is also the opportunity to nominate compliance heroes, with rewards to both the hero and the person who nominates them.<br> <br> While all of these are great for building the relationship between compliance and the rest of the organization, she advises that you shouldn’t let your Corporate Compliance & Ethics Week be the only time a year in which the barriers come down. She recommends investing wherever possible in face-to-face interactions. You would be amazed, she tells us, at what a coffee cake can do to help.<br> <br> Listen in to learn more about how to make your <a href="https://www.hcca-info.org/about-hcca/corporate-compliance-ethics-week">Corporate Compliance & Week</a> celebration a success.
