Build Excellent Workplace Culture and Stay Compliant with Online Ethics Training for Employees

Your organization’s guiding principles and code of conduct should be the pillars of your online ethics training program. Whether your organization is new or simply revamping its ethics and compliance training, make sure your core values and mission statement are clearly defined and shown as the central piece of your ethics training. Then, complement this by teaching your employees how your code of conduct stems from core values, and how important it is as a set of rules and as a blueprint of your organization’s workplace culture. Check out our webinar to delve more into the best practices for your ethics training program.

To maximize the impact of your program, make sure to define the KPI’s and milestones you’ll use to measure success – these KPI’s should match the overall goal of your program. Some useful KPI’s you can use to track the impact of your ethics training program are knowledge retention (measured though post-training knowledge assessments), reduction in ethics code of conduct violations, employee training satisfaction scores, and brand reputation improvements
As far as milestones, set specific timelines and percentages for each of your KPI’s, such as achieving 90% completion rate for your ethics training modules or reducing ethics violations by 5% within the first half of the year. Read more about choosing the right KPI’s for your training program here.

It is crucial that the content you’re using to deliver your ethics training is tailored to your industry and organizational needs. Generic and outdated content will make it almost impossible to keep employees engaged and learning. Online learning tools like an LMS make customizing learning tracks easy, for example, BizLibrary’s LMS leverages AI to help L&D teams create custom learning paths based on key competencies and job roles, cutting the time it takes to build the right program for your people in half. To learn more about how to choose the right content for your training program, check out this article.

As with any other employee training program, one of the most important ingredients for success is to continuously evaluate and adjust. The key here is not to wait 60 or 90+ days to conduct your evaluations of how much impact the program is having. Instead, you should draw out trends in the data you’re collecting from your KPI, and milestone tracking and adjust your program as it progresses. This will ensure that input from employee surveys and quantitative changes in things like engagement and retention inform the direction your program goes and maximize the positive impact it has. Check out this article to learn more about training program evaluation techniques.