How to Create an Effective Corporate Ethics Training and Compliance Program

Companies once measured the effectiveness of their corporate ethics training and compliance programs by reviewing course attendance and completion rates. In effect, success was equated with a high attendance record.

Today, companies need to consider more than just course completions to ensure the effectiveness of their corporate ethics training and corporate compliance programs. LRN, the leading provider of corporate ethics training and compliance education, believes that companies must focus on instilling professional business ethics and values into the very fabric of their organizational cultures.

The most effective corporate ethics training and compliance training programs inspire everyone within an organization to adopt a business code of ethics that incorporates values such as honesty, respect and fairness into their daily work. 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 five key elements make compliance and corporate ethics training programs more effective:

• Obtain buy-in from senior management to lead corporate ethics training efforts.
• Educate on values as well as laws and rules to inspire principled behavior throughout the organization.
• Make corporate ethics training engaging, thought-provoking and challenging.
• Make corporate ethics training professionally relevant.
• Reinforce corporate ethics training and apply learning on the job.

Since 1993, LRN has helped nearly 300 companies put these key elements into practice, creating effective and engaging corporate ethics training and compliance programs. LRN's team of 350 professionals, with backgrounds ranging from academics to software and high technology and software, will help you develop and implement communication and training tools, including videos, interactive activities, emails and posters, tailored for your company and your compliance needs. We'll help you reinforce LRN's ethics and compliance training with your employees so they can apply what they've learned on the job.

A valuable ethics and compliance education is ultimately measured by how well it engages a workforce and serves as a foundation for a winning corporate culture. Visit LRN.com to take the first step in creating compliance and corporate ethics training programs that inspire principled performance.