Easily Stay Compliant With Advanced LMS Tools
A crucial part of your company’s employee training and development program should be compliance training. It allows employees to flourish by ensuring they understand all the relevant laws, procedures, and internal policies that govern your organization. It paints a picture of how compliance issues apply to their roles in the workplace and guides them on how to handle different situations they may face. With an effective compliance training approach, they will know how and why they need to adhere to the established rules while in their workplace.
It’s unreasonable to dump a handbook of rules and regulations on employees and expect them to have it memorized overnight. They will retain no information that way, nor will it incite any commitment to upholding those practices. Compliance should be baked into the culture of your organization and introduced in a way that inspires employee participation and engagement (through an innovative LMS platform, perhaps). Without it, the consequences can damage a company’s image and reputation, ranging from fines and penalties to lawsuits and even criminal charges. Compliance training topics can include:
- Federal and state laws
- Company procedures and policies
- Data privacy and security
- Fraud detection and prevention (anti-money laundering, anti-bribery, etc.)
- Workplace discrimination
- Sexual harassment
- Risk management
- Workplace violence
- Diversity and inclusiveness in the workplace
Topics can differ depending on the department as well, but the biggest concern for any company is that it has an adequate compliance training strategy. According to eLearning Industry, companies spend an average of $14.82 million on issues of non-compliance, and only 70% of organizations attempt to measure the effectiveness of their compliance program. That’s why having an LMS platform that offers compliance tracking can transform how your employees learn and retain information.
Compliance tracking, in simple terms, helps ensure policies, laws, and regulations are being followed. Not only that, but tracking can also help identify any areas of non-compliance, whether with internal policies or external regulations, and whether accidental or intentional. It is essential for many industries—from healthcare to manufacturing— but it is a complex challenge because most organizations must manage multiple compliance requirements all at once.
With more workforces operating under remote and hybrid structures, compliance has become both more important and more challenging for companies to measure. If your team is not in the office taking an in-person course, can you truly determine if they’ve focused on the content and retaining the necessary information? An LMS software provides companies with a smooth path to robust compliance reporting, which will guarantee you’re running a more compliant organization.
ExpertusONE offers multiple features that help companies track and measure user compliance to ensure that your teams are up to date on the latest standards in your respective industry.
Observation Checklist helps managers track compliance on-site or online
This convenient digital tool helps learning and development managers track team member performance on the job or in the field. Quickly and accurately determine your employees’ understanding of learning material and eliminate any unnecessary content. Learn where they need more assistance and record data with other learning information in the platform for deeper insights into their performance.
The most advantageous element of the customizable Observation Checklist is that they are built into ExpertusONE’s learning management system instead of existing in an external network, which is ideal when tracking your team’s overall performance and competency. This makes it easier to merge and analyze data while saving time and reducing room for error. This is a huge value-add, especially in the healthcare industry, because other LMS platforms simply don’t have it. Where managers may have previously corralled multiple documents with information about compliance, they can compile all of this information into a single platform—the ExpertusONE LMS.
Observation Checklist automates the review and management of any in-person training, including field-based or on-the-job training, mentoring, and skills supervision. Managers, instructors, or mentors can conveniently observe a learner’s progress, assess their mastery of skills, and create baselines for employee development and advancement using a digital checklist of tasks.
For example, this tool is useful when a supervisor, manager, or instructor needs to observe an employee as the learner is demonstrating a skill—such as operating machinery or administrating a procedure—and then record that assessment for future reference. These insights are critical in highly technical fields like healthcare, where leaders and managers may need to refer back to training records when an issue arises. With digitized information (rather than the old-world, paper-based checklists) about an individual learner’s training record, managers can see where compliance training was taken and whether or not an error was the result of a lack of training.
Rapid LMS authoring tool
Learning and development managers can use ExpertusONE’s Interaction Studio to track compliance. Because managers need to see where participants are running into roadblocks (like if they are failing the quizzes embedded in the course), they can track the learner’s progress to see how they are interacting with the eLearning content and if something needs to change for a better experience. With Interaction Studio, you can promote engagement and track whether or not learners are participating in quizzes and polls embedded in the course.
In order for employees to understand and retain information, they must connect with it. Each user will have a different learning style. Some prefer hands-on experiences, and others remember more information if they hear it or see it written out. Managers can ensure that their courses are engaging for all learners by tracking progress, creating dashboards, and performing usage analysis with Learning Record Store, another ExpertusONE LMS tool that will help you gain a deeper understanding of your team’s training competency.
This feature was designed to increase learner engagement and training interactivity for a better overall eLearning experience. Drive learner engagement easily by adding fun and meaningful interactions to videos and presentations. Add context-based activities, such as quizzes and games, if you need to break up longer training sessions with interactive assets. You can also intersperse text-centric content to break up longer video sessions. This keeps viewers interested and tests their comprehension. It’s as easy as uploading, selecting, and clicking.
Also, create presentations with ease through this LMS authoring software. Keep up with the demand for microlearning with even more engaging content. Once they are completed in Interaction Studio, you can associate them with any course, training, or content in the ExpertusONE platform. They are 100% mobile-ready and browser-agnostic since they are already HTML5 enabled.
Learning and compliance initiatives cost money, time, and employee productivity, so you must invest in a technology that will make them more impactful and effective. Compliance tracking helps to improve organizational performance and can highlight where your courses may be lacking. Leverage an LMS platform and create more engaging and impactful content so that your team members retain essential knowledge. With data and insights tools embedded into the ExpertusONE platform, it’s easy for managers to understand the impact of their compliance training strategies and determine where they need to improve.
Interested in using the ExpertusONE LMS platform to track compliance in your company? Contact us today.
