Executive coach and former Chief Compliance Officer Amii Barnard-Bahn responds to your anonymous questions on some of the grayer areas compliance officers face, such as culture, hiring, training, and ethics. Click here to submit your own for inclusion in our next edition.

Q. I recently spoke in front of a classroom of law students, many of whom are on a track to join the compliance community. It was a good talk, but I have to be honest … I am concerned they won’t have the people skills they need to truly be effective in a compliance capacity. If you were in my shoes, what would you tell them to do to get better at dealing with people? —Anonymous