Going beyond box-ticking compliance with an LMS

Discover how using an LMS for compliance training can motivate your team, engage learners and reduce risk.

A learning management system (LMS) is essential in helping any organisation to fulfil its compliance requirements.

All too often that has reduced compliance  — and the LMS itself — to a box-ticking exercise. This can be incredibly limiting for the organisation and its learners. And, like most box-ticking exercises, it tends to be incredibly boring.

With the right infrastructure in place, an LMS for compliance training also becomes a way to manage and simplify regulatory and legal burdens, as well as engage your learners. Let’s explore what that looks like in practice.

Staying scalable and flexible

Many businesses try to shoehorn their compliance obligations into an inflexible LMS that doesn’t meet evolving compliance needs and isn’t really designed to operate at the scale required. 

Larger employers might have to prove compliance among hundreds of different disciplines. For an L&D team that will inevitably be small in comparison to the total number of learners, which would be almost impossible to manage without the correct infrastructure in place.

To go beyond box-ticking compliance, you need an LMS that can be customised to meet new and changing needs, and that can grow with your organisation.

Motivating learners

We like to talk about moving from mandatory to meaningful learning. Box-ticking compliance relies on making learners complete the training required for your organisation to meet its regulatory requirements.

What if that same training was packaged and delivered in a way that made it an engaging piece of self-directed learning? This could be achieved by adding bitesize chunks of compliance training to more exciting learning content, delivering compliance training using storytelling or a more engaging format, or creating goal-based learning tasks incorporating compliance training.

If compliance training doesn’t feel like a requirement and is instead part of a personalised professional development journey, it becomes more appealing. The result is a boost to compliance rates.

Reducing risk

Failure to meet compliance requirements could put you at risk of penalties, fines and other sanctions. Taking away the risk of those punishments reduces business risks for your organisation.

Combining the scalable, engaging LMS we’ve discussed with a powerful reporting system that helps you to monitor compliance and make speedy, targeted interventions instantly alleviates risk.

Combining compliance and learning

As we’ve alluded to throughout, compliance is far more effective — and delivering compliance training is far easier — if it’s seen as an engaging, useful activity for each learner.

The best way to achieve this is when compliance and workplace learning are combined within a single LMS that’s designed to do both. You need a customisable platform that can meet your organisational and industry demands.

Ready to go beyond box-ticking compliance?

Talk to us about creating a customised LMS for compliance. We’ll help you achieve regulatory requirements, increase the effectiveness of your training and reach wider business goals.

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