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. Am I alone in pushing back against the “let’s try the home office thing permanently” trend that I am seeing? There’s still value in having face to face conversations, face to face collaborations. Especially the tough conversations that compliance officers have to have. How can those effectively be done remotely? From my experience, it’s hard to set the right environment and the right tone virtually. –John