New Year. Clearer Compliance. Slightly Less Chaos.

Every organisation starts the year with good intentions:

• “We’ll stay compliant this year.”

• “We’ll document things properly.”

• “We definitely won’t leave submissions until the last minute.”

We admire the optimism.

This year, we’re spreading the load. One focus area at a time, every second month, with practical guidance (and the occasional raised eyebrow).

Here are your Top Oriole Legal & Compliance Resolutions for 2026 — mapped to when we’ll tackle them.

1. “We’ll stop relying on institutional memory”

If everything depends on one person who “just knows”, that’s not a system — it’s a risk.

📅 March – Skills Development & Workplace Skills PlansWe’ll unpack WSPs, training alignment and why skills planning is also governance.

2. “Training will be planned, documented and submitted (not guessed)”

Hope is not a reporting methodology.

📅 March – Skills Development & WSP Submissions

3. “We should actually document how procurement works”

Procurement chaos is expensive — and usually preventable.

📅 July –Procurement Policies and Procedures Clear rules, clear processes, fewer uncomfortable meetings.

4. “We’ll learn from organisations who got procurement right”

Because reinventing the wheel is expensive.

📅 July –Procurement Policies and Procedures

It’s governance. It’s risk. It’s reputational.

5. “We’ll take employment equity seriously (and correctly)”

Not a once-a-year, portal-closing sprint.

📅 September – Employment Equity Submissions & ComplianceWe’ll cover reporting, planning and common mistakes.

6. “We’ll submit employment equity reports without panic”

A bold goal. Entirely achievable.

📅 September – Employment Equity Compliance

7. “We’ll accept that governance needs regular health checks”

If you haven’t looked at your governance framework recently, it’s probably outdated.

📅 November – Governance Audits & Future-Proofing Your Business Stress-testing systems before something breaks.

8. “We’ll celebrate milestones, not just survive them”

This one deserves balloons

📅 May – Oriole Turns 20 🎉Twenty years of compliance challenges, lessons learned and institutional wisdom.

9. “We’ll future-proof instead of firefighting”

Less chaos. More planning.

📅 November – Governance Audits

10. “We’ll ask for guidance before someone forwards an email that starts with ‘Please explain…’”

You know the one.

📅 All yearWe’ve seen worse. Much worse.

Up next:📅 March – Skills Development & Workplace Skills PlansWhere compliance, people and planning intersect (and yes, it’s more interesting than it sounds).