How to Create an Effective Compliance and Ethics Online Training Program

Up until recently, a company could determine the success of its ethics online training and compliance programs by tracking course attendance and completion rates.

Now, however, organizations must re-evaluate the way it measures the effectiveness of their compliance and ethics online training programs. LRN, the leader in corporate compliance training and ethics online training programs, finds that companies need to instill a sense of corporate governance and accountability into the foundation of their organizational cultures. The most successful ethics online training programs make it very clear to employees what comprises ethical as well as unethical conduct – based on its formal code of ethics – so employees can recognize and report unethical behavior, affirm that they follow the code, and understand that they are responsible to uphold their company's ethical culture.

LRN research shows that an organization creates effective corporate risk management and ethics online training when it includes the following five key elements into its coursework:

• An active role on the part of senior management to drive the ethics online training, safety training course and compliance program.
• Educate employees about the importance of values – in addition to laws and rules – to instill ethical leadership and behavior.
• Make compliance and ethics online training interesting; encourage active participation.
• Relate compliance and ethics online training to "real world" scenarios that employees might encounter.
• Reinforce corporate compliance training and ethics online training by applying learning to actual job related experiences.

Since 1993, LRN has enabled nearly 300 companies to offer effective ethics online training and corporate compliance program tailored for their organizational cultures. LRN's 350 professionals, who will share their knowledge gained from a wealth of diverse backgrounds ranging from academia to philosophy to technology, will help you design a set of customized communication and educational training tools to promote your code of ethics. LRN's ethics online training and compliance program courseware and interactive tools complement each other to reaffirm to your employees the importance of ethical leadership and corporate values to your company's success and profitability. Visit LRN.com to learn how you can create a winning corporate compliance and ethics online training programs that inspire principled performance.