Do you remember what your first day of classes was like in college? At the start of each new class, your professor gave you a syllabus. The syllabus told you what the professor expected you to learn during the course. Those expectations were the course objectives.
Creating a good training requires similar objectives. In order to help your staff learn most effectively, you need to know why you’re training them. Objective based training enables you to define the training outcomes you aim for with your staff, and makes it easy to build a training around those objectives.
When you’re developing a compliance course, keep these guidelines in mind to create great objectives:
1. Determine the training’s general goal. Why do your staff need to lean compliance right now? For example, some compliance courses work as training for new employees and periodic refreshers for current staff. Other times, companies create a training to address a new policy change or a recent increase in compliance violations.
2. Create specific goals you can measure based on the broader purpose. Objectives need to be clear and measurable so you can determine if the end training helps employees meet the objectives. Instead of saying “all employees will learn compliance,” write “all employees, after this training, will be able to identify 90% of company compliance policies.”
3. Develop clear standards for measuring the objectives. How will you determine if your company’s employees met the objectives? Create an objective evaluation tool. Strong evaluation tools include looking at all employees’ performance on a post-test, or looking at employee’s compliance records after training and seeing if there is a decrease in compliance violations.
Our staff are experienced at creating live and e-learning compliance courses that meet your company’s needs. Contact us for help defining your company’s training objectives and creating a training around them.