I often write about the art of listening as one of the skills critical to being a successful business leader. However, if you are a compliance practitioner you need to have developed the necessary skills so that the senior management in your company will listen to you. This subject was touched on in the March/April issue of the SCCE Magazine, Compliance and Ethics Professional, in an article entitled “Does your boss listen to you?” by Meric Craig Bloch. In his article, Bloch notes that “Compliance professionals are business advisors”; as such they can never be effective if senior management does not listen to them. Bloch advises that the key is to become a “trusted advisor” to capture the attention of key decision makers at your company.