THE PROACTIVE CERTAINTY PROGRAM™
How To Transform Compliance
The Problem: Reactivity
Based on our experience working with hundreds of organizations we learned many practice procedural compliance evidenced by a reactive and divided approach to compliance. They may declare or certify as compliant, but remain uncertain their efforts will be effective to protect what is critical to mission success.
They are caught in The Reactive Uncertainty Trap™ waiting until audited or for a incidents to occur before they improve their compliance.
This creates a vicious cycle of non-conformance where outcomes are not realized, assurance decreases, and stakeholder trust diminishes over time.
The Solution: Proactivity
We also learned you can escape this trap if you take a proactive and integrative approach to compliance.
Organizations that do, achieve operational compliance evidenced by having all essential functions, behaviours and interactions performing together as one to achieve the outcomes of compliance.
This creates a virtuous cycle of conformance where better outcomes are realized, assurance increases, and stakeholder trust grows over time.
How To Escape the Trap
To escape The Reactive Uncertainty Trap and achieve compliance operability, we recommend you:
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Take ownership of all your obligations,
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Establish real-time systems to monitor compliance and risk, and
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Intentionally improve the certainty of meeting all your obligations over time.
We provide two options to help you with your compliance: basic and advanced.
While other consultants can provide you with basic compliance services, our advanced program - The Proactive Certainty Program™ - only available from us, takes everything to a much higher level, and you don't need to give up any existing consultants or management frameworks to join.
This program is not for everyone. It's specifically for forward-looking, ethical organizations who take their obligations seriously, and strive to continually raise their standards.
The Proactive Certainty Process™
The Proactive Certainty Program™ follows a four-step process designed to transition from procedural to operational compliance.
STEP | DESCRIPTION |
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1. ORIENT | Quickly assess your compliance situation and identify areas of risk and improvement. |
2. MAP | Learn essential operational concepts and principles, as you evaluate, analyze, and design an improvement road map towards Minimal Viable Compliance (MVC). |
3. OPERATIONALIZE | Implement essential functions, behaviours and interactions to achieve compliance operability. |
4. ELEVATE | Continually elevate your capabilities to realize better and greater compliance value over time. |
By engaging in these four steps, you will finally realize the benefits from always staying on mission, between the lines, and ahead of risk.
1. Orient
The first step, which we offer for FREE, is where we help you quickly assess your compliance situation and identify areas of risk and improvement.
At the end of this step, you’ll have a clear understanding of your compliance situation and actionable steps you can take to improve your compliance. We will also decide together if this program is the right fit for your organization.
By completing The Proactive Certainty Scorecard™ and participating in a hands-on working session (60-minutes) you'll quickly learn what is holding you back from being more proactive with your compliance. We will also decide together if this program is right for you.
2. Map
This step is where you learn essential concepts and principles as you design your road map towards greater proactivity and certainty in meeting all your obligations and keeping all your promises.
During this 13-week engagement the program owner, compliance team and obligation owners (depending on the package chosen) will actively engage in learning, charting, and the development of a detailed road map to operationalize and then elevate your compliance to realize greater compliance value (Total Value) over time.
3. Operationalize
This step is where you build what’s essential to operationalize your obligations.
A minimum level of operability, Minimum Viable Compliance (MVC), is necessary before actual benefits can be realized.
During this step your team will establish essential functions, behaviours, and interactions to achieve Minimal Viable Compliance to begin enjoying the benefits that come from staying between the lines and ahead of risk.
4. Elevate
After achieving MVC, you are now ready to generate greater compliance value.
This step focuses on continual improvement raising the bar to new heights of effectiveness and benefits.
This means more than incremental improvements. To advance compliance outcomes you need to advance compliance capabilities. That’s why this step is a game changer. It takes everything to the next level.
