The Cs of great relationships

Kristy Grant-Hart

Kristy Grant-Hart (kgranthart@sparkcompliance.com, compliancekristy.com, linkedin.com/KristyGrantHart) is the Managing Director of Spark Compliance Consulting in Los Angeles, California, USA, and author of How to be a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer.

by Kristy Grant-Hart

If you’re in compliance, you know a big key to your success is having a good relationship with the business. Good relationships don’t just happen: they need to be created and tended to.

There are many ways to create good relationships, but also many ways to destroy them.

The Cs

Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words. Science has proven that alliteration is a powerful aid in memorization.^[1]

Alliteration can be used to help remember the dos and don’ts of creating great relationships with our fellow businesspeople. In this case, we’ll use the letter “C.”