Audio Blog Series: Speak Up Culture Best Practices

Audio Blog Series: Speak Up Culture Best Practices

Are you trying to make your workplace safer for employees to voice their concerns? Then this is the audio blog series for you. Each episode explores one stage of setting up and maintaining an internal speak up culture in your organization.

The first audio blog below explains what a speak up culture entails and how to create one in your organization. You’ll learn ethics best practices, the benefits of a speak up culture, and practical steps to take to create a strong culture of reporting concerns. The second episode is all about whistleblower hotlines and other reporting mechanisms. We discuss how to tell if your hotline is working effectively and why it works best if you pair it with a robust case management system. Finally, the last episode in this audio blog series describes how to keep your speak up culture going once you’ve made your updates to policies and procedures. Tips include getting employee feedback and ensuring you always follow up with whistleblowers after they’ve submitted reports to build trust.

If you enjoy these audio blogs, be sure to check out more episodes on case management best practices on our Case IQ Spotify channel.

In this audio blog, we discuss the benefits of establishing a speak up culture, including improved employee morale, fewer lawsuits, better compliance, and a stronger public reputation. You’ll also learn steps for developing and maintaining this type of culture, such as creating a clear policy, providing training, and utilizing a whistleblower reporting system.

In this audio blog, you’ll learn how to set up an effective whistleblower hotline in your workplace. If you want to uncover issues (and resolve them) faster, reducing risk for both employees and your organization, you need to have easy-to-use reporting channels in place.

Topics include:

• Pros and cons of allowing anonymous reporting
• How to tell if your reporting mechanisms are working
• Benefits of pairing a hotline with case management software

In this audio blog, you’ll learn best practices for maintaining an effective speak up culture once you have your reporting mechanisms and processes in place. Setting up reporting mechanisms is one thing, but ensuring they work well for both your employees and your organization is even more important. You’ll hear about why prioritizing anti-retaliation is key, why you need to follow up with whistleblowers, and how to survey employees to ensure your speak up policies and procedures are working for them.