Check this blog for five ways to make online compliance training exciting.
For many organizations, it is mandatory to conduct compliance training every year for their employees. While the management does its job by conducting classroom sessions or online courses, employees find it a waste of time and want to quickly get done with it. Many of them just go through it as a routine task without really paying any attention. How can compliance training be made more exciting? What elements can you use to make it attractive to your employees so that they are all pumped up about taking up the course? Well, this blog will tell you five ways to make your online compliance training exciting.
1. Gamification
Game elements such as points, badges, and rewards can be given to your learners when they have to not just memorize policies and protocols but also master the correct application of rules and regulations. This will add to their motivation and engagement. While some employees may prefer competitive elements such as leaderboards, others would prefer collecting badges that indicate how much they have achieved. Such rewards increase their motivation and engagement and will make them willing participants in the training. Try and reduce rewards such as gift cards or monetary rewards as these will act as extrinsic motivators. Gamification of compliance courses makes learning a pleasure and urges employees to go through the course.
2. Scenarios
Using scenario based modules in your course will help your employees train for situations they may encounter in the workplace and learn how to act in such situations. When these scenarios are realistic, employees can relate them to real-life situations. Ask employees for reactions to the situation and give feedback on whether it was the best answer, an okay attempt, an incorrect answer. Based on the feedback, learners would like to know why their answers were correct or incorrect, the consequences of their choice and will look at other options. Such scenarios provide your learners with a risk-free environment to try out compliance situations and learn how to handle them. They can easily be created with authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline.
3. Social Media
Employees welcome the idea of interacting with peers and exchanging ideas with their peers on social media. Social media tools can add value to your online compliance training. You can do this by setting up social media groups, corporate e-learning blogs, and online discussions on compliance topics where employees can share their thoughts and training experiences. This will make the training interesting as employees can share their views and opinions and gain access to tips and insights from experts that will improve their comprehension of the subject.
4. Microlearning
Compliance training is crucial for organizations and employees. Unfortunately, employees are short on time to complete the courses. This is where microlearning comes to your rescue. These small learning nuggets available on mobile devices can be accessed anytime and anywhere by employees. Microlearning modules can be online training tutorials, simulations, podcasts, or videos that focus on specific learning objectives. Whenever employees have time, they can access these courses and finish the training. Online training activities can be followed with microlearning assets such as infographics that feature compliance trends or facts to add to their learning.
5. Learner Feedback
Feedback from your employees on the course will help you identify areas of improvement and assess how effective your online compliance training is. Employees will be glad to give their opinions. You can gather their feedback through surveys and questionnaires. You can ask them to test out the course even before its launch and get their feedback. You can ask them which modules they liked and the reasons. When you try out new things in assessments or scenarios, find out if they liked it. Soliciting their feedback will send out the message that you value their opinion and would like to present information in the way they prefer. This will make them involved in the course and urge them to complete it.
Online compliance training doesn’t have to be a tedious affair. By using these strategies, you can make your compliance training exciting. Using creativity to present the information and challenging your employees through gamification and ensuring their involvement by asking for their feedback will lend the course more meaning and make learning stick.
