To begin your planning process or assessment it may be helpful to determine the following:
| What are the objectives for the training? |
☐ Support a culture of ethical behavior and compliance. ☐ Communicate a policy, requirement or law to raise awareness and improve compliance, also reduce risk. Provide practice in applying policy to realistic scenarios. ☐ To satisfy internal or external obligations or requirements. ☐ To help close a known gap in behaviors revealed in assessment, audit, or investigation. |
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What issues to cover and who to train? |
What are the highest risks? ___________________________________________________ What current training exists? ___________________________________________________ How effective is existing training? ___________________________________________________ How will you address specialized or complex topics? ___________________________________________________ Will employees or others be learning processes and systems? ___________________________________________________ Who interacts with the risk and at what level? ___________________________________________________ |
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In anti-corruption training, audience would focus on: |
☐ Positions with high levels of discretion (board, senior management, CFO, Controller) ☐ Positions in countries considered high-risk (e.g., country managers, local finance, sales reps) ☐ Sales and marketing groups that operate in global environments ☐ Procurement and supply chain organizations (financial influence, many third-party relationships, etc.) ☐ Legal, finance, and ethics and compliance (must have a deeper knowledge of standards for advice giving and exercise of approval authority) ☐ Employees otherwise expected to be involved in situations where specialized or complex information is needed to manage specific risks (for ex. putting together a first time deal in a remote, high risk location) ☐ Third parties |
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What is the current training load for these individuals and how can you best access the employees? |
How much learning needs to take place? ___________________________________________________ ☐ Increased awareness plus where to go for help ☐ Deeper understanding and changed beliefs ☐ Application, advocacy and changed behaviors |
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How will you present materials, with what frequency and depth of content? |
☐ Review of law, guidelines and best practices ☐ Consideration of how your population learns ☐ Provision of a variety of reinforcing approaches ☐ Setting of goals and plan to measure progress. |