We Can Help You Achieve Compliance without Business Disruption

Law and accounting firms can give you advice about what you need to do to achieve compliance with such initiatives as Sarbanes-Oxley, but that's all they can do. They are specifically barred by the act from setting the course to achieve compliance. For many companies that makes compliance all the more painful and disruptive.

K. A Parker & Associates specializes in providing products and services to companies that need to comply with legislative and regulatory initiatives. We provide unique solutions to take our clients from concept through process planning, competency assessment, training gap analysis, training and training delivery systems (e-learning).

All of our products and services are customized to make compliance consistent with our clients' corporate cultures, not the other way around.

Compliance Suite Comprises:

• Financial Planning and Analysis.

  We don't offer our clients advikse about audits or other financial compliance issues, but we fully understand what's required and can help you comply with such laws as Sarbanes-Oxley and all of the SEC regulations stemming from that legislation. That includes establishing process for forms completion and all reporting requirments of the law.

• The Parker Process Method -- Process Modeling.

  Enterprise Business Process Method is a comprehensive discussion with affected individuals to determine and engineer or reengineer “problem” processes, “opportunity” processes or the entire enterprise. This product has a process-modeling training capability option.

• Competency Assessment and Modeling.

  Every compliance plan in an organization should have a Position Description for employees responsible for any aspect of compliance. Competencies detail the skills and knowledge needed to do the job well. With detail comes task clarity and skill deficit. Supervisors and employees know what skills are necessary for a given compliance job. Competency modeling is the art of capturing and documenting the skills and knowledge required for each position.

• Training Gap Analysis.
  

  Assessing what employees know about compliance is necessary to determine if they have the skills and knowledge they need to do the job. If they do not, training will be required. The goal of training gap analysis is to ensure that the right people get the appropriate training to effectively execute their roles in achieving compliance.

• Training and Training Delivery Systems.

  Not only do we assess the type of training needed, we customize the training content to suit our clients' individual needs. We identify who really needs it, and as importantly, who doesn't. We then produce the content and conduct it using conventional or e-learning methods.

• E-Learning Systems.

  We can deliver a compliance training program on an Interactive CD, through a Web site customized just for you, or through your intranet, if you prefer. Interactive or e-learning offers a number of advantages over conventional, paper-based training systems. Hands-on interaction tends to provide higher retention rates, and those doing the learning can move through material more quickly, as frequently as they like, and in a way that incorporates a more distinct applicability to real-world situations.

• Coaching, Mentoring and Business Communications.

  Such laws as Sarbanes-Oxley can have a major psychological impact on any employees who must adapt to their requirements. We offer coaching and mentoring to corporate executives who must respond well to the psychology of change.

  We start by talking with individuals and groups about their roles in compliance and by developing a roadmap for the business and the its leaders about what they need to accomplish for compliance and how it's tied to the corporate vision statement.

For more information about Executive Coaching and Mentoring click to contact: Dr. David Powell.

• In addition, our Business Communications Group helps employees to learn how to handle work/life balance issues in the context of compliance. Among our methods to help employees adapt to change, we offer:
  • Managing Stress: The Power of the Mind-Body Connection
  • Guided Relaxation
  • Breath Meditation
  • Hypnosis
  • Lifestyle Evaluation and Coaching

How We Develop the Compliance Road Map and then Take Your Company to Compliance

We Start by...

comparing your business process with compliance mandates and then develop a road map to your compliance goals. That map must provide the clear definition of each task involved in completing any given compliance process. By working with people within the organization who know what is happening and what is supposed to happen, we reduce practice (real work) to words. The company is then free to keep, change or modify the written process map to improve the organization's efficiency and strengthen its competitive advantage.

Process Renovations

We create a development plan that will deliver the right knowledge to the right people.
Team members have a clear skill set resulting in:

1. Clear understanding of compliance issues
2. Higher productivity
3. More rapid compliance

We Implement...

Compliance with such legislation as Sarbanes-Oxley is on-going. After all of the initial aspects of setting compliance in place, maintenance will be needed to ensure continuing compliance and enhance adaptability to changes with the law itself and how regulators enforce it.

Additionally, a law requiring dramatic changes to business practices can create a negative impact on the corporate psyche. Our Coaching & Mentoring and Business Communications groups can address the psychology of change for all employees from CEO on down.

To ensure maintenance and a meaningfull way to address psychology of change issues, we create:

1. Mentoring
2. Coaching
3. Certification
4. Annual Evaluation