Building Ethical Organisations With Anti-Bribery and Corruption Training

For many organisations, mandatory anti-bribery and corruption training can become a tedious box-ticking exercise. We believe that with the right training program, businesses can deliver compliance training that is flexible, engaging and focused on knowledge retention.

We are excited to launch the first of our Compliance Collections for Anti-Bribery and Corruption – an innovative new approach for keeping your training programmes fresh, year on year.

Our new Anti-Bribery and Corruption collection offers an engaging learning experience to employees, helping you build an ethical organisation with a culture of compliance.

The Collections Approach

For many organisations, some of the pain points of compliance training are engagement and retention. We have designed our Collections keeping this in mind. A collection offers a selection of learning interventions that enable organisations to roll out training over several years to keep training content fresh and engaging. This approach supports a multi-year training strategy, offering a flexible training program. It can also be adapted to roll out plans in response to evolving training needs and risks identified.

Our collections also deliver training in different learning styles – combining detailed study, adaptive learning, immersive learning and microlearning, along with some communications resources. The variety of learning formats is linked to higher rates of learner engagement and more effective reinforcing of key messaging.

What’s New?

Adaptive Learning

Adaptive learning courses are a new innovative approach to our longer, detailed study courses. Adaptive learning courses begin with a quiz to check the learner’s current knowledge and understanding of bribery and corruption and demonstrate their areas of competence and weakness. Based on the results of the quiz, the course is tailored to fit individual learning needs and close any gaps in knowledge.

Learners don’t need to repeat any topics which they are already familiar with, saving up to 45 minutes per employee in unnecessary study time!

Our existing Anti-Bribery and Corruption (Working Globally) course is now available in an adaptive learning format.

Core Take 5s

In addition to our existing courses, we have also added the following new microlearning courses as part of the Anti-Bribery and Corruption collection:

To learn more about our collections, visit the Anti-Bribery and Corruption topic page on our website.

Reflections on the state of compliance

Reflections on the state of compliance

Compliance Week Europe 7th and 8th November 2016

More than 150 compliance professionals from over 120 organisations came together for 2 days in Brussels to discuss the challenges facing the sector. With the dust barely settled on the conference Darren Hockley, VinciWorks Internationals Managing Director offers his reflections on the conference.

Keeping pace with the changing regulatory landscape

The primary challenge for most compliance teams remains keeping pace with the changing regulatory landscape. Compliance teams are still juggling with recent legislation such as the UK Modern Slavery Act and the EU Solvency II regulations, whilst planning ahead for major changes in data privacy with GDPR looming on the horizon.

Many of the delegates felt they were keeping abreast of this challenge, particularly around the development of policies and employee awareness training. However more work needed to be done in terms of monitoring and identifying issues. Most attendees acknowledged a gap between policies and what is actually happening on the front line, particularly in areas of the world where is it still culturally accepted/expected that illegal bribery payments will be made. Pressure on middle managers who are striving to meet targets/incentives and to stand out from the crowd can also lead to a compromised position.

Bridging the culture gap

Although awareness of compliance issues is more common in employees and the vast majority have no intention of crossing the line, one worrying trend is the reluctance of people to blow the whistle it they do spot wrong-doing. This is despite an increase in legal protection and implementation of anti-retaliation policies by most organisations.

In some cases employees don’t want to harm the organisation they work for whereas in other cases they keep quiet to protect themselves. They simply don’t believe they will be protected and their careers will be unaffected and many are simply worried about taking this to their line managers. Most organisations cite zero tolerance to compliance issues; but there is more work to do to create a culture that reflects this.

Extending the reach

Perhaps the biggest challenge facing compliance teams is extending the reach of their compliance programme through complex supply chains. In some cases there are regulatory requirements to do so (such as anti-bribery and data privacy), in other cases it is about reputation and brand management (preventing modern slavery). The challenge is to understand the complexity of the supply chain and to have sufficient resources available to complete adequate due diligence and monitor performance across all compliance areas.