World's Sleaziest Boss BearingPoint's ethics videos deftly mimic The Office's mockumentary style, even starring a Michael Scott-esque leader.
How one team transformed a training binder into must-see TV.
Russ Berland's first assignment at BearingPoint was a doozy. He was asked to redesign the company's ethics-and-compliance training program. If simply reading the phrase "compliance training" sapped a little of your will to live, perhaps you can empathize with Berland.
Most companies -- including yours, probably -- have an ethics program, and often the "program" looks uncannily like a three-ring binder. It may be sitting on your bookshelf right now, between What Color Is Your Parachute? and the 2003 Metro Area phone book. It's filled with mimeographed, knuckle-rapping prose, just like the code of conduct Berland inherited, which, he said, appeared to have been repurposed from a law firm.
Yet compliance training was critical at BearingPoint, a management and technology consulting firm, because...
How one team transformed a training binder into must-see TV.
Russ Berland's first assignment at BearingPoint was a doozy. He was asked to redesign the company's ethics-and-compliance training program. If simply reading the phrase "compliance training" sapped a little of your will to live, perhaps you can empathize with Berland.
Most companies -- including yours, probably -- have an ethics program, and often the "program" looks uncannily like a three-ring binder. It may be sitting on your bookshelf right now, between What Color Is Your Parachute? and the 2003 Metro Area phone book. It's filled with mimeographed, knuckle-rapping prose, just like the code of conduct Berland inherited, which, he said, appeared to have been repurposed from a law firm.
Yet compliance training was critical at BearingPoint, a management and technology consulting firm, because...
- 12/3/2009
- by Dan Heath & Chip Heath
- Fast Company
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