Make compliance great again…with a little help from your friends at Skosh. No hats necessary.
Compliance can sometimes feel like a dirty word. What happens when you tell your learners it’s time for compliance training? Do they run for the hills? Do they start warming up their fast-clicking-fingers? If this is true for you, it’s time for an extreme compliance training makeover. We’re here to help bust the myth that compliance is boring and a necessary evil.
Impossible, you say? Let’s run through our four keys to really great, engaging compliance training.
1. MAKE IT RELEVANT
If your learners are rolling their eyes and saying “this doesn’t even apply to me…” then you may be missing the mark. Don’t just put information in front of them, make the meaningful. What are the consequences of non-compliance? How does the new information affect their day-to-day roles? How does it affect the company as a whole? This is important context that engages your learner into the training and makes it actually meaningful to them. If you just tell them the information without the context, they have no reason to pay attention and absorb the material. Snooze fest!
2. MAKE IT FUN
Who said compliance has to be stuffy? Yes, there are times when a serious tone is necessary based on the topic at hand. However, small, unexpected moments of comic relief or lighter tone can surprise your learner, make them laugh, gain their interest and intrigue. Since it’s an internal communication, consider having some fun with writing and framing of the training. I promise, your learners will appreciate it (and you’ll probably have more fun making it, too!).
3. VARY THE MODALITIES
Variety is the spice of life, and that goes for training, too. Mix it up for your learner with a variety of modalities like video, web-based interactions, in-person interactions, and peer discussion. Especially if your content is on the dry side, re-engage the learner to get them to interact with the content in different ways.
4. MAKE IT SNAPPY
Take it back to point 1. What’s the necessary info for the learner group? Take that, and don’t add much more. Keep it straight and to the point so your learners know that you value their time and energy to take the training. If you focus on exactly what they need to know, and any behaviors you need to target with this training, you’ll find that you can be really focused with what’s included and shrink seat times to manageable amounts.
Not sure how to make it all come together? Fun is our middle name. Give us a holler and let’s talk compliance.
