How to Create an Effective Compliance and Ethics Training Program

In the past, an organization could choose to measure the effectiveness of its ethics training program by examining employee attendance and completion rates.

Today, this same company now needs to re-think the way it measures the effectiveness of its ethics training program. LRN, the educational leader in corporate compliance training and business ethics training, believes that companies need to imbed corporate ethics and responsibility into the very fabric of their organizational cultures. The most successful type of ethics training program teaches employees what constitutes unethical conduct – based on its formal code of conduct – so they can recognize and report unethical behavior, affirm that they follow the code, and take responsibility to safeguard their company's ethical culture.

LRN's experience has shown that an effective ethics training program incorporates the following five key elements:

• Senior management takes an active role in driving ethics training program efforts.
• Employees are educated about the importance of values – in addition to laws and rules – to inspire principled behavior.
• The ethics training program is interesting and encourages active participation.
• The ethics training program is relevant to actual "real world" scenarios that employees encounter.
• Learning is applied to on the job experiences, reinforcing the ethics training program and course content.

Since 1993, LRN has helped nearly 300 companies create an effective online ethics course. LRN's team of 350 dedicated professionals, with a wealth of diverse backgrounds ranging from academia to philosophy and multimedia to technology, will work with you to create customized communication and educational training tools to promote your code of ethics. LRN's ethics training program courseware and tools: posters, emails, videos and activities, reinforce the importance of ethical leadership and corporate values to your employees. Visit LRN.com to learn how you can create a winning safety training and ethics online training program that inspires principled performance.