Having a well structured compliance training is one of the most important components of its success. Your classes’ structure is often the key difference between a training program where your employees are engaged and learning the material, and a training with confused, distracted employees.
These are five components to consider for ensuring you create a compliance training with a structure that allows your employees to absorb the material:
1. Start with an engaging warm up activity. Get your employees excited and engaged with a warm up that’s fun and relevant to the compliance material. Ask employees about themselves, get them talking to their neighbors, and make them laugh.
2. Describe course objectives. Give your employees an outline at the beginning of class so they know what they’ll learn and what to expect from the class.
3. Create a multimedia learning approach. After the warm-up, teach the main content of the course, but make sure your approach has variety. Just standing and lecturing tends to bore employees. Instead, every 10-15 minutes, incorporate multimedia such as video or audio, visuals, group exercises, and question and answer periods so your employees can learn through a variety of methods. This keeps employees entertained and helps appeal to different learning styles.
4. Allow for breaks, and keep the program length reasonable. Even adult learners get restless without breaks. Give your employees a 10 minute bathroom break at least every 90 minutes. If the training lasts all day, give a least a 90 minute lunch break to allow employees to regroup. Keeping the program well structured will decrease the time it takes to complete the training, which will help your employees stay engaged.
5. Have adequate time for questions and feedback at the end. Keep the program moving, and schedule time at the end for your employees to ask questions and give feedback. This time allows your employees to make sure they understand the material fully and means you’ll get well thought out, thorough feedback on the training.
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