How to Create an Effective Ethics and Online Compliance Training Program

For years, an organization could measure the effectiveness of its online compliance training, safety training course and ethics training programs by examining employee attendance and course completion rates.

Today, organizations should look at new ways to measure the effectiveness of their ethics and online compliance training programs. LRN, the leader in global business ethics and online compliance training programs, has found that in order for companies to survive in the 21st century, they must instill a real sense of corporate governance and accountability into the foundation of their organizational cultures. The most effective successful ethics and online compliance training programs spell out what is both ethical and unethical conduct – based on a company's written code of ethics – so employees can recognize and report unethical behavior, affirm that they follow the code of conduct, and understand that they will be held accountable for upholding their company's ethical culture.

LRN research indicates that organizations create effective corporate ethics training and online compliance training when they incorporate the following five key elements:

• Senior management plays a major part in driving both the online compliance training, ethics course and HIPAA training.
• Educate employees about values – in addition to laws and rules – to instill ethical leadership and an appropriate code of business conduct.
• Create interesting and engaging ethics and online compliance training programs that encourage active participation.
• Relate ethics and online compliance training to real world-based scenarios that employees often experience.
• Reinforce both workplace diversity training and online compliance training by having employees apply what they've learned to actual on the job occurrences.

Since 1993, LRN has assisted nearly 300 companies in offering online compliance training and ethics programs to fit their organizational cultures. LRN's dedicated 350 professionals, who come from a wealth of diverse backgrounds ranging from academia to philosophy to technology, will help you design and implement customized communication and educational training tools to promote your code of ethics. LRN's complementary online compliance training and ethics training courseware and interactive tools are designed to reinforce how much ethical leadership and corporate values impact your company's bottom line. Visit LRN.com to discover how you can create a winning ethics and online compliance training programs to inspire principled performance from your workforce.