A compliance training program is one of the most important aspects of ensuring that your company operates safely and conforms to the country’s law. Compliance training is mandatory and every employee in the organization has to receive the training to help them understand the legal policies, regulations, as well as to avoid any legal issues and ensure smooth operation of the organization.

 

The goal of any training is to engage learners but compliance training often leaves learners unimpressed and disengaged.  It may seem tedious to employees but compliance training is essential for business success. Compliance training can often feel abstract and boring resulting in employees treating it as a convention to get it over with since it is mandatory. If employees are not inspired to take compliance training, they are at risk of not understanding its purpose and not complying with it. Also, organizations could miss out on the opportunity to provide meaningful learning experiences on a critical topic. Thus, it is not surprising that organizations are striving to develop compliance training program that is engaging, more interesting and memorable with interactivities. Compliance training is more effective if it is well structured, engaging and meaningful, resulting in genuine employee engagement and long-term learning and knowledge retention.

 

Various Types of Compliance Training

 

It is imperative that your employees are properly trained in legal and regulatory compliance, regardless of the industry in which you operate. The types of compliance training provided to the employees are:

• • • Ethics Training
  • • Code Of Conduct Training
  • • Diversity & Inclusion Training
  • • Data Protection & Cyber Security
  • • Workplace Anti-Harassment Training
  • • Workplace Substance Abuse Training
  • • Industry-Specific Compliance Training
  • • Occupational Safety & Health Training (OSHA)

 

Tips To Make Compliance Training Fun And Engaging

 

• • Deliver training in bite-sized chunks
• Compliance training contains a lot of information that the employees have to go through to improve their performance, which can be tedious. With the reducing attention span and busy working environment, going through hour-long training can be overwhelming. By dividing the content into digestible chunks, employees can go through the training at their own pace. Small digestible chunks of information are more easily retained by the employees.  Thus, it helps to improve retention and reduce stress and make the mandatory training experience more enjoyable.

 

• • Make it interesting
• To truly strengthen knowledge, the learners need to interact with the content. Add in interactivity to keep the learners interested. By using videos or games in compliance training can keep the learner engaged and also make sure they absorb all the information that is important to their role. Interactive videos create an impactful and engaging learning experience as the learners are active participants with a strong sense of involvement. In addition, gamification can also increase learner engagement by adding a sense of interactivity to compliance training. Gamification incorporates a variety of game mechanics, such as multiple levels, challenges, and immediate feedback, as well as performance indicators, such as scoreboards, badges, and leader boards that improve learners’ engagement and retention.

 

• • Make it relevant
• Learning through case studies and scenarios are good ways to keep the learners hooked throughout the training. Case studies put the information into a real-life context and scenarios involve storytelling. Using real-life scenarios that employees are likely to encounter in the workplace will make the training more meaningful and motivate employees to learn. This will keep learners engaged and encourage critical thinking as well. Additionally, case studies are excellent for imparting knowledge and stimulating learners’ inquisitiveness since they offer a real-life context. Learning through case studies helps learners to comprehend the rules, their importance, the consequences of non-compliance and how they can be implemented. Leveraging real scenarios and case studies can be truly effective as it creates an emotional response.

 

• • Make it captivating
• Everybody loves to hear good stories. Storytelling is a powerful form of communication because it sparks creativity and lateral thinking. Stories ignite learners’ interest to know more and find out what happens next. Telling a story in compliance training that includes details of how an employee dealt with a problem and its impacts on job duties will make it more interesting and get the employee thinking about how they would react in similar situations. Encourage employees to share their stories or convert text-based stories into interactive presentation to enrich the experience.

 

• • Create a campaign
• Getting learners to go through the mandatory trainings can be really challenging. To maximize the effectiveness of the compliance training program it needs to be extended beyond desktops or laptops. A campaign-based approach can be a very successful way to deliver an effective learning experience and keep key takeaway messages at the forefront of your learners’ minds. To get other employees to talk about compliance training, it is important to make employees aware of its benefits and rationale.
  Campaigns through videos, emails, webinars, posters, podcasts, infographics, newsletters, and compelling taglines encourage learners and build interest in compliance at the workplace.