We’ve all heard the phrase, “reduce, reuse, recycle.” What’s good for the Earth can also work well for your professional life as a compliance officer. After all, you’re expected to produce a tremendous amount of material throughout the year. From policies to procedures, training videos to emails, you’re expected to consistently create content.

Instead of constantly running on the hamster wheel at full pace each day, try bringing the concept of recycling into your job. How do you do that? Start with the “Rule of Three.”

The Rule of Three

The Godfather of Compliance, Joe Murphy, created the rule of three. It means that he aims to use each piece of content he creates in at least three ways. If he’s created a blog post, he’ll use the topic for a podcast, and to post to LinkedIn. He makes sure that the work is used in multiple ways.

You can use the rule of threes in your job. Let’s say you created a really clever gifts and hospitality email for the holiday season. Instead of simply mailing it out and deleting it, you could…