How to Create an Effective Compliance and Ethics Training Program

In the past, organizations once measured the effectiveness of their ethics training and business ethics programs by examining employee attendance and completion rates.

Today, companies need to do more to measure the success of their ethics training and corporate compliance programs. LRN, the leader in ethics online training and online compliance training, argues that companies must make corporate ethics and responsibility part of the fabric of their organizational cultures. The best ethics training programs teach employees and management what constitutes unethical conduct – based on the code of ethics – so they can recognize and report wrongdoing, and take responsibility for safeguarding a company's ethical culture.

LRN's experience has shown that companies create effective corporate compliance and ethics training programs when they incorporate the following five key elements:

• Have senior management play an active role in driving ethics training efforts.
• Educate on values – in addition to laws and rules – to inspire principled behavior and avoid workplace harassment.
• Make ethics training interesting, provocative and engaging.
• Make ethics training relevant to actual "real world" scenarios that employees often face.
• Reinforce ethics training and apply learning to on the job experiences.

Since 1993, LRN has helped nearly 300 companies how to create effective and engaging online ethics course programs. LRN's team of 350 dedicated professionals, with a wealth of diverse backgrounds ranging from academia to technology, will work with you to develop a set of customized communication and educational training tools that promote and reinforce your global business ethics as part of an overall compliance program. LRN's ethics training courseware and tools, including posters, emails, videos and activities, are powerful ways to demonstrate the importance of ethical leadership and corporate values to your employees. Visit LRN.com to learn how you can create winning corporate compliance training and ethics training programs to inspire principled performance.