Compliance Programme Communication Plan
This is a practical guide to building a communication plan for a compliance programme project — who gets what information, when, how and from whom, adapted to the realities of achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance.
What a Communication Plan is
A communication plan is who gets what information, when, how and from whom. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Communication Plan. On a compliance programme project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Compliance Programme project
Compliance Programme projects live or die on achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance. A well-built communication plan gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how compliance programme projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Audiences
- Messages / information needs
- Frequency and channel
- Owner
Compliance Programme-specific considerations
Tailor the communication plan to the risks that most often derail compliance programme projects:
- Evolving regulation
- Evidence and audit
- Cross-department coordination
Example
On a real compliance programme project, the communication plan would be shaped by achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — evolving regulation, evidence and audit, cross-department coordination — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.