Bringing Your Code of Business Conduct to Life

Having a code of business conduct doesn't guarantee that employees will comply with it, or even that they will understand the issues driving it. The real challenge lies in making a code of business conduct a relevant, engaging guide that inspires a workforce toward principled behavior. This requires content and language capable of winning over the most cynical workers and includes techniques to ensure your business code of ethics becomes a valuable, living document that actively engages employees.

LRN's experience has shown that leading companies apply the following five key elements when creating and promoting an effective code of business conduct:

• Emphasize values, supported by rules, in creating your code conduct ethics.
• Educate employees about the code of ethics to make it relevant and real.
• Reinforce the code of business conduct, within and beyond the organization.
• Encourage employees to become active participants in upholding the code of conduct and its values.
• Gather feedback, measure effectiveness and continually improve the code of business conduct.

LRN, the global leader in ethics and compliance management and education, will work with you to develop and train your employees on a code of business conduct based on corporate values that inspires principled decision making, addresses key ethics and compliance risks, and helps ensure everyone acts with integrity.

LRN's online and offline courses can make your code of business conduct relevant and real; educating employees on both an introduction to business ethics as well as other important compliance training topics. Our communication tools, including e-mails, posters, videos and activities, are all tailored to promote your code internally and will encourage employees to become active participants in upholding the code of conduct and its values. And our hotline tool can be used to measure the effectiveness of your code of business conduct and direct areas for improvement.

Experience. LRN has been a pioneer helping companies create their own code of business conduct and corporate compliance programs. Since 1993, we've helped nearly 300 clients make ethical behavior an integral part of their culture and corporate governance.

Expertise. Our dedicated team of 350 business professionals brings a wealth of diverse experience and expertise – ranging from law and philosophy to education and multimedia, as well as software and technology – to help you create a code of business conduct that addresses your enterprise risk management needs and strengthens your foundation of business ethics.

Work with LRN to develop an effective code of business conduct. Visit LRN.com to find out how you can inspire principled performance through your code of business conduct.