Catherine Boerner (cboerner@boernerconsultingllc.com) is President of Boerner Consulting LLC, in New Berlin, WI.
I like to approach compliance audits with the “Help me prove we are doing this right” mindset. I think gathering information from various departments or seeking help understanding how a process works can go much smoother when you are asking employees at various levels of the organization to help.
The proactive nature of conducting audits and looking at samples of compliance risk areas in order to verify that we are compliant is a nice place to be. It is so refreshing as a compliance professional to get out of a reactive mode.