Compliance is crucial for all organizations. Since regulations and compliance is becoming even more complex over time, practical compliance training is more vital than ever to reduce the risk of hefty penalties and violations.

Let’s take a look at the tips to create successful compliance training courses!

1. Know your audience

It’s crucial to know your audience, as it’s impossible to develop and design an effective compliance training program without that vital information. When you know your employees’ educational backgrounds, job experiences, among other factors, you can learn more about what training methods to use and the subjects to focus more on.

2. Keep things real

Compliance training can be dull if employees can’t relate to it. When you connect training programs with real-world scenarios, employees can adequately contextualize how their lessons relate to daily work activities.

Implement more storytelling into your training program, as well as real-world situations and case studies reflecting your employees’ work circumstances. That way, you motivate your employees and enhance the training experience while fostering a better emotional connection with the topics. As a result, employees can retain the information better when real situations come.

3. No to information overload

Compliance training can sometimes feel like you’re drinking water from a firehose! Employees are expected to learn and absorb a ton of information in such a short amount of time. Juggling that with work and personal life can feel incredibly overwhelming!

That’s why it’s crucial to make the entire training program and all information palatable and retainable. It’s best to enlist microlearning and break your content into short, bite-sized pieces. That way, your employees can process a lot of information efficiently while it’s easier for you to concentrate on achieving the learning objectives.

4. Go mobile

Allow your compliance training program to go online, accessible throughout devices. Mobile learning provides flexibility for employees to access compliance training programs anytime and anywhere, depending on their most convenient time. That way, learning continues seamlessly.

Fortunately, many platforms allow you to continue learning online, such as True Office Learning. Such platforms also make it easier for employers to track progress.

5. Have fun

Who says training has to be so dreary and dull? There are ways you can make compliance training fun for everyone.

You can implement activities drawing out emotions, such as simulations, cooperative projects, or role-playing. These can offer crucial contextual memory prompts, helping employees recall information when experiencing closely-related events in real life.

Besides that, add a few humorous anecdotes to reduce the stress and pressure related to compliance training.

6. Be more social

Collaborative learning lets employees work together and enriches learning through social interaction. With social media, learning can happen in informal settings, no matter when and where.

Social media encourages people to exchange knowledge and ideas to support collaborative work. Consider incorporating social media strategies into your compliance training, too.

Wrapping It Up

With these practical compliance tips, it’s time that you begin implementing them into your training programs!  

Leslie Harley