How AllenComm Scales Training to Meet Compliance Standards
We’ve spent some time earlier this month looking at corporate compliance training: the factors that should go into your budget, what you should look for when partnering with a training vendor, and, most importantly, why going through all this trouble for compliance is so important. This week, we want to talk about our own experience with compliance training, and the process and strategy we use to help our clients meet compliance and regulatory standards with the right approach at the right scale.
Before we go into our process let’s talk about why scale [1] is so important to corporate compliance training. The balance between available budget and imperative standards and regulation can be tricky to get right, especially in industries that could potentially face major financial consequences for non-compliance with government mandates. Finding that balance – and even developing the budget for the corporate compliance training in the first place – requires an understanding of the scale the project needs to cover all its bases.
What’s more, it’s important to account for future growth. Regulation changes [2] all the time, due to the state of the market, the political climate, and countless other factors. Not only should a corporate compliance training project be able to scale to fit the needs of these regulatory standards, the project must also be able to accommodate for potential growth the company may see in the future. These factors are important to consider in making the best use of your budget dollars and create the best training possible for your employees.
Step One – Determining Need
Compliance standards cannot be met if they have not been properly defined. Some of these cases are easier than others. For instance, if an organization is legally required to comply with certain predefined rules. However, even in these cases, it’s important to properly analyze who needs to be learning and applying what information, and, most importantly, how to teach them.
Our collaboration process involves several steps to ensure that we have an accurate picture of the needs of our clients. Through various meetings, we work with the client team to gather information, which we can then use to make recommendations. The understanding of project scale we garner from this stage in the process helps us to ultimately create a high-level design document outlining the project before we begin work.
Step Τwo – Building The Solution
With the appropriate parameters identified and a design defined, we can actually begin putting the solution together. Using the needs that we’ve worked together to highlight with our client, we use our project development process structure to transform the content we have gathered or been given for a design that accelerates user performance. In the case of corporate compliance training, we give special focus to any regulatory standards that must be met, and enable learners to understand them and act accordingly.
One feature of AllenComm that helps us stand out in these cases is that the size of our project teams can easily scale with the solution that needs to be built. Some projects, with bigger budgets or more complex goals, may require more team members and more roles to be taken on in order to create the best corporate compliance training solution possible. Some clients may have the capacity to take on certain project roles in-house, and therefore require a smaller team to partner with. Our flexibility allows us to match the projected scale of a given solution with the appropriate level of brain power.
Step Three – Looking Toward The Future
Even when the project is finished and ready for launch, it isn’t over yet. Business growth should be something to be celebrated, not something that will completely up-end your corporate training strategy. As things change for your organization, both internally and externally, the solution you’ve identified must be able to grow with it to get the most out of your investment. This is yet another avenue where AllenComm’s process can help scale your corporate compliance training solutions. Regardless of how we have delivered the solution, our relationship with our clients leaves room for future growth.
Effective, engaging corporate compliance training is important to us. We believe that there is so much room for compliance training to grow, and so many ways to create a solution that meets the standards you need without boring your employees to tears. As we wrap up the month next week, we’ll take a deeper dive into what AllenComm has done for their clients before – and what that can mean for meeting your needs.
References
1. How to Scale Employee Training with E-Learning
2. 5 Big Regulatory Changes That Could Affect Your Business
