How to Create an Effective Corporate Compliance Training Program

Many organizations once measured the effectiveness of their corporate compliance training and ethics in business programs by simply analyzing company attendance and completion rates.

Now, however, a company must do more than calculate course completion rates to assess the real value of its corporate compliance training program. LRN, the leader in corporate ethics and OSHA compliance training education, has found that companies must instill a strong sense of corporate ethics and responsibility into their organizational cultures in order to succeed in today's hyper-connected, hyper-transparent business environment.

The most effective corporate compliance training programs motivate employees and management alike to live by a code of conduct, one that includes corporate values such as honesty, respect and fairness, both in and outside of the office. Through these communication and training efforts, employees learn what constitutes unethical conduct so they can recognize and report it as well as affirm that they are not engaging in it and take responsibility for safeguarding a company's ethical culture.

LRN's experience has shown that the best professional business ethics and corporate compliance training programs integrate five key elements, which:

• Engage corporate leadership to drive corporate compliance training programs.
• Highlight the importance of values as well as compliance-related laws and rules to inspire principled behavior.
• Make corporate compliance training and ethics education interesting, challenging and engaging.
• Make corporate compliance training and business ethics training programs relevant to real life, on the job experiences.
• Reinforce code conduct ethics and corporate compliance training after the course has ended, so participants can apply what they've learned on the job.

Since 1993, LRN has led the way in ethics online training, showing nearly 300 companies how to develop and implement effective ethics and corporate compliance training programs. LRN's 350 professionals, with backgrounds in both business and academia, will help you to create a unique set of communication and educational training tools to reinforce your code of professional business ethics and corporate compliance training. Go to LRN.com to learn how you can develop a corporate compliance training program that will inspire principled performance at every level of your organization.