How to Create an Effective Compliance and Ethics Course

Not long ago, a company could determine how successful its corporate compliance program and ethics course were by taking attendance and by tracking completion rates.

Today, an organization must do more than evaluate attendance records to truly measure the effectiveness of its ethics course and corporate compliance training program. LRN, the leader in business ethics training, believes that companies need to imbed a sense of corporate ethics and responsibility into the foundation of their cultures. The most effective kind of ethics course teaches employees what constitutes unethical conduct – based on its institutionalized code of conduct – so they can recognize and report it, affirm that they follow it, and take responsibility to safeguard their company's values while they represent the organization.

LRN research has determined that an organization creates an effective corporate compliance and ethics course when it incorporates the following five key elements:

• Senior management takes full responsibility to drive ethics course and diversity education-related efforts.
• Teach employees the importance of values – in addition to laws and rules – to inspire ethical conduct.
• Make the sexual harassment training and ethics course interesting and engaging.
• Make the compliance and ethics course relatable to on the job scenarios that employees might encounter.
• Reinforce the compliance and ethics course and apply learning to on the job experiences.

Since 1993, LRN has shown nearly 300 companies how to develop their own ethics online training to fit their organizational cultures. LRN's team of 350 dedicated professionals, with a wealth of diverse backgrounds ranging from academia to philosophy and multimedia to technology, will help you create customized communication and educational training tools to promote your business code of ethics. LRN's online ethics course tools, including posters, emails, videos and interactive activities, are designed to reinforce the importance of ethical leadership and values to your employees. Go to LRN.com to learn how you can create a winning corporate compliance and ethics course that inspires principled performance from every level of your organization.