Corporate compliance training is a critical, yet often overlooked responsibility for small businesses. It ensures that employees adhere to legal and ethical standards and safeguards the organisation against potential risks such as fines and reputational damage. However, implementing effective compliance training for employees can take time and effort, especially for small businesses with limited resources.
At 5app, we've helped organisations big and small host and streamline their compliance training materials. In this blog, we'll explore the common challenges managing compliance training and how our platform (The Hub) addresses these issues.
Small businesses are not exempt from regulatory requirements, whether it's related to data protection, workplace safety or anti-discrimination policies. Making sure employees understand and comply with these regulations is crucial. However, compliance training for employees presents small businesses with unique challenges:
If you're a small business, the chances are you don't have a dedicated training team, L&D function, or even a learning management system (LMS) to help deliver your compliance training. Therefore, managing any sort of training is administered manually, which is both time-consuming and prone to errors.
Monitoring who has completed training and reporting on compliance progress can be cumbersome without the right tools. However, it’s essential for providing evidence of training for compliance audits.
Compliance training is often seen as tedious, leading to low employee engagement and poor knowledge retention. Employees may rush through modules just to tick a box, undermining the purpose of the training.
Ensuring all employees receive consistent and up-to-date training regardless of location or department can be a logistical challenge. Traditional face-to-face training can be inconsistent, meaning different teams receive different information, which will impact the quality of your corporate compliance training.
At 5app, we understand these challenges and have developed a series of tools to make compliance training more efficient, effective and automated. Whether you're a small business looking for an LMS for compliance training or a comprehensive solution to drive employee engagement, 5app has you covered. Here's how:
Playlists lie at the heart of our platform, allowing content curators to build and structure their content for any purpose seamlessly.
To ensure employees are accredited and recognised for their learning, our Badges feature acknowledges the completion of Playlists such as mandatory training modules. Visual progress indicators for the learner, manager, and admin make it easy to track and manage Playlist completion. While compliance training may not always be the most exciting content, gamification elements such as microcredentials and badges add an element of engagement to the programme.
One of the biggest pain points for managing compliance training is the constant need to remind employees to complete it by a set date. With Nudges, admins can set and forget shares and reminder sequences to alleviate the admin burden. This means that learners who haven’t completed their tasks (such as completing content in Playlist) will be continually reminded to do so by the automated notifications in the Hub, taking a time-consuming task off the plate of the L&D team.
Goal-based: decide whether the learner needs to open the content or complete the content.
Deadline alerts: Learners receive timely notifications about upcoming due dates.
Persistent reminders: Nudges continue until the training is completed, ensuring no one slips through the cracks.
For small businesses without a dedicated training team, Nudges are invaluable in maintaining compliance.
Managing compliance completion is often the duty of the administration team, but it doesn't have to be. At 5app, we empower managers through our My Teams functionality, which allows managers to track and manage their teams' learning activities.
Team visibility: Managers can view their team's overall progress while also drilling into individual learner data when needed.
Proactive support: For learners who are falling behind, managers can direct personalised Shares within the Hub to encourage training completion.
My Teams decentralises compliance management, making it easier for small businesses to maintain accountability across teams and departments.
Tracking and reporting on compliance training for employees is critical for audits – and at 5app, we provide admins with customisable reports and insights.
Real-time data: learner engagement data is tracked in real-time with data slicing available for individual team or overall organisational reporting.
Exportable reports: All data is extractable in CSV and XLSx formats to be managed outside of the platform or plugged into third-party dashboards such as Google Analytics and PowerBI.
With 5app, admins can confidently manage their compliance programmes and demonstrate their effectiveness to the business.
5app allows curators to personalise any training through customisable homepages, notification (Nudges) sequences and Playlists. For example, new employees can see a different homepage and receive bespoke Nudges to welcome them to the business and guide them to the content they need in the early days of their role.
Compliance training for employees doesn't have to be a headache for small businesses. With 5app, you can easily deliver effective training, engage employees and meet regulatory requirements.
Our platform seamlessly combines content curation, learner engagement and reporting. By addressing common pain points and offering practical tools, 5app empowers small businesses to tackle compliance confidently.
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