VinciWorks Training Courses

VinciWorks' diversity and harassment courses do more than simply cover business' obligations under the 2010 Equality Act. Our training tackles issues at the forefront of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. VinciWorks' diversity and harassment training suite includes both interactive story-based training and the traditional approach to e-learning.

MyStory: Diversity and inclusion at work

While there is a need to focus on the traditional compliance tools; better training, better policies, and better support, harassment is a topic that needs to look at the end point first and ask the toughest question: does this workplace encourage diversity? VinciWorks' story-based training was developed with the aim of transforming learning into a personal, awareness-raising experience rather than simply a tick-box exercise.

MyStory: Diversity and inclusion at work sheds light on stories of discrimination and harassment all too frequently experienced by people in the workplace. The course is designed to bring to life the real impact of equality and diversity through storytelling. It raises awareness of the prevalence and impact of diversity-related discrimination.

MyStory: Harassment and bullying at work

#MeToo launched a movement against sexual harassment through the simplest but bravest act of people sharing their stories. Women and men who had been targeted by predators, subjected to appalling behaviours and victimised by their harassers said "no more, enough is enough". They gave abusers nowhere to hide, and employers no room to shield the perpetrators.

This course has directly applied the lessons of the #MeToo movement and the wealth of research into why traditional sexual harassment training doesn’t work to create a brand new kind of anti-harassment experience. The course has both a US version and a UK version. The US version is built to comply with the New York State and City sexual harassment prevention laws coming into force in October 2018.

#MeToo launched a movement against sexual harassment through the simplest but bravest act of people sharing their stories. Women and men who had been targeted by predators, subjected to appalling behaviours and victimised by their harassers said "no more, enough is enough". They gave abusers nowhere to hide, and employers no room to shield the perpetrators.

The three concepts: Experience, Explore and Share

We’ve built the course with three main intersecting components: Experience, Explore and Share, with the "Seek help" function providing the guidance and resources for staff who wish to report inappropriate behavior. It’s up to the user to go through them at her or his own pace, and they can easily switch between the sections. The course has both a US version and a UK version, allowing users to select which is most appropriate for them.

Experience

Users are presented with striking accounts of bullying, harassment and sexual assault in the workplace. Whilst the stories are fictional, they are based on real events experienced by people every day.

Explore

This feature allows users to scroll through and explore the tweets, articles and videos which launched the #MeToo movement and helped it spread across the world.

Share

Users are offered the opportunity to anonymously and securely share their personal story, and, separately, can agree for what they share to be used in future versions of the course.

Diversity: A Practical Overview

Diversity training is an imperative first step to protecting the rights of individuals and advancing equality of opportunity for all. The course outlines the behaviours expected of all employees, the reasons to comply with those behaviours and the consequences of non-compliance. It is recommended for use as part of the onboarding process or as a regular refresher.

About The Course

Organisations have a responsibility and a legal obligation to comply with competition law and ensure staff have the knowledge and understanding to do that. Competition Law: Know Your Market drops users into a set of immersive scenarios to test their knowledge, understanding and ability to comply with UK competition law.

The course is broken into short modules that cover different aspects of UK competition law, including price-fixing, cartels and meetings with competitors. Each module contains simulations of real business dilemmas with key learning points related to the scenario. Each set of scenario questions is illustrated with real life examples and the latest news concerning enforcement action from the Competition and Markets Authority. Users come away with a comprehensive understanding of the UK Competition Act, the Enterprise Act, and how to apply their knowledge to everyday situations.

Course features

The course contains three interactive modules covering cartels, competition and pricing. Each of the three modules includes news stories relating to the topic, scenario based questions and opportunities to gain extra points by reading more on the topic. The course features are:

• Covers the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002
• Gamified learning that rewards users with a new experience points system
• Expert users are able to "test out", allowing them to complete the course in less time
• Available in multiple languages
• Add your own custom scenario questions
• In-depth modules on cartels, pricing and competitors

Course outcomes

• Understand UK competition law
• Learn to evaluate risks and follow the right course of action
• Understand red flags and reporting procedures
• Understand key terms such as price fixing, parent liability and bid rigging
• Understand the role and requirements of the Competition & Markets Authority
• Understanding the repercussions breaching competition law can have on the market

Presenters' bio

This course was written and designed by VinciWorks and incorporates feedback from several leading national and international law firms, accountancy firms and major corporations.

About The Course

The Market Abuse Regulation is a European Union law to ensure the fairness and stability of financial markets. This regulation, along with other legislation, prohibits insider dealing, unlawful disclosure of inside information and market manipulation.

The interactive market abuse course teaches the practical application of the regulations and what you need to do to be compliant. Every organisation has a responsibility as well as a legal obligation to prevent market abuse. Training helps ensure that staff have the knowledge and understanding needed to be compliant.

The course covers:

• How to recognize insider dealing and market manipulation
• How to protect inside information
• What to do if you witness market abuses

Presenters' bio

This course was written and designed by VinciWorks and incorporates feedback from several leading national and international law firms, accountancy firms and major corporations.

About The Course

DAC6 is a European regulation aimed at tackling tax avoidance and tax evasion, strengthening tax transparency and improving information sharing between EU Member States. The Directive requires lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, bankers and other “intermediaries” to report certain aggressive cross-border arrangements. VinciWorks' training is recommended in order to understand the intricacies of these hallmarks and to determine which transactions must be reported.

• Monitor cross-border arrangements
• Assess reportability of arrangements
• Identify correct tax authority
• Report arrangements to local tax authority

Every Matter Partner will require training to recognise hallmarks and properly report qualifying transactions. Our online DAC6 course provides the information and resources intermediaries need in an affordable, accessible format, where and when they need it.

DAC6 reporting tool

• Record all cross-border tax transactions that may require reporting
• Built and delivered on a secure platform
• Links to the DAC6 training to review specific hallmarks and reporting requirements
• Fully customisable to include organisation-specific guidance and questions

DAC6 Training

Our DAC6 training suite offers two courses, DAC6: Advanced for matter partners and DAC6: Fundamentals, a shorter course that gives an outline of the key requirements of the Directive.

Course features:

• Detailed examples of each hallmark
• Interactive scenario questions to ensure understanding of the DAC6 reporting process
• Can be translated into any language so employees across the EU can complete the training
• Interactive test sections at the end of each module to help users understand their reporting requirements
• Fully customisable — additional scenarios can be included in the training to relate to the organisation's industry and policies

About The Suite

Failure to comply with money laundering and terrorist financing regulations can impose criminal and civil liability on your organisation, its Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO), its partners and other staff. Our diverse library of courses is tailored for different firms and industries. These include legal, accounting, real estate, financial services and much more.

Our most recently released anti-money laundering training takes relevance to the heart of training. With realistic scenarios, role-specific content, laws and procedures applicable in the jurisdiction, real-life case studies as well as a fresh, bold new design, our new Advanced and Fundamentals courses are suitable for any business, any user, anywhere. There are two new courses; an Advanced course for high-risk staff and a Fundamentals course for all staff.

About The Course

Despite the legal requirement, health and safety training has a bad reputation. Most people working in an office don’t want to do it, and won’t think about it much again. VinciWorks is currently developing a new OHS course designed to make training more engaging and relevant to the user’s workplace.

VinciWorks’ Health and Safety for Office Workers course delivers short, interactive health and safety training units which are customised to the specific office they work in by default. Gone are the endless slides that bear little to no relevance to a person’s working environment. Health and Safety for Office Workers provides all the health and safety information in one place.

Health and Safety for Office Workers contains ten stand-alone units which can be made mandatory by the admin. The units are RoSPA approved and contain dynamic, interactive learning as well as customised content as standard and ‘write-your-own’ units to ensure the right health and safety information gets to the users who need it.

Course units

• Health and safety law
• Accident reporting procedures
• Basic ergonomics
• Site and building security
• Display Screen Equipment
• Fire safety awareness
• Save evacuation
• Basic electrical safety
• Basic first aid
• Preventing slips, trips and falls

Course features

• Short, interactive units
• Communicate evacuation points and Fire Wardens across your sites
• Display Screen Equipment (DSE) assessment built into the course
• Can be fully customised to include health and safety policies and procedures relating to your organisation
• All content will be RoSPA approved

The training can also be fully integrated with our health and safety risk assessment portal.

About The Suite

SRA Standards and Regulations training The focus of the SRA Standards and Regulations, set to replace the SRA Code of Conduct in November 2019, is on each legal professional being able to justify their actions in all work that they carry out. The previous handbook was long and confusing; the new SRA Standards and Regulations are much more concise and no longer stipulates indicative behaviours.

VinciWorks’ SRA Standards and Regulations training suite will help legal professionals, including support staff, develop an understanding of the relevant regulations which apply to their specific role in the law firm. The training ensures that all employees of an SRA regulated law firm who have a responsibility as well as a legal obligation to follow the rules in the SRA Standards and Regulations have sufficient knowledge to stay compliant.

Self-reflection questions

A unique feature is the self-reflection questions at the end of the course. This provides the user with an extra layer of documentation to prove compliance to the SRA. After a user has completed the course, they will have access to a summary of how they intend to uphold each of the different SRA Accounts Rules in their everyday work. This feature demonstrates not just that the user has taken and completed the course, but they have carefully considered how they intend to uphold their professional standards and made a personal commitment to do so.

Courses included in the suite

Presenter’s Bio

The course was written and designed by VinciWorks and incorporates feedback from the SRA and several leading national and international law firms.

About The Course

The course provides a comprehensive overview of whistleblower rights within the UK. The aim of the course is to improve the culture in every organisation so that employees feel comfortable whistleblowing where necessary.

The course covers the following main topics:

• What is whistleblowing?
• Why should you whistleblow?
• Legal protection from whistleblowing
• Protected whistleblowing categories
• Whistleblowing disclosures
• Gagging clauses in employment contracts
• How should you report whistleblowing?

Special features

In order to enhance the learning experience, the course also contains a number of unique special features.

• Real-life scenarios showing where whistleblowing may have helped prevent disaster
• Real-life scenarios showing where whistleblowing has helped to prevent disasters
• Practical guidance on how to whistleblow correctly

Course outcomes

• Understand what whistleblowing is
• Learn how you can identify when you are legally protected to whistleblow
• Recognise which categories of concern are protected by whistleblowing
• Guidance to seek further help on whistleblowing queries

Presenter’s Bio

The course was written and designed by VinciWorks and incorporates feedback from several leading national and international law firms.

About The Course

This course is designed to give users an understanding of some of the causes of stress at work, what can happen when it’s not dealt with, and how employees and employers can help reduce unnecessary stress and improve wellbeing at work. Mental Health: Wellbeing at Work includes short summaries of different mental health conditions, some of which might be considered a disability under the Equality Act. This course is not a substitute for medical or specialist advice.

The course is fully customisable to enable employers to add relevant policies, procedures, links and information they want to communicate to their staff around mental health and wellbeing.

The course has an optional section for managers which provides further details of the mental health and wellbeing issues to be aware of for anyone with management responsibilities.

Subjects covered:

• Signs and symptoms of different mental health conditions
• External resources from the voluntary sector and NHS
• Information about mental health and wellbeing
• Recognising the signs, symptoms and risks of stress
• Personalised stress risk assessment
• Mental health and the law
• Taking care of yourself
• Taking care of others
• Creating a culture of openness around mental health

Course outcomes

• Understand the signs and symptoms of common mental health issues including stress
• Learn the warning signs in yourself and others
• Know what resources are available in the organisation and outside the organisation to support yourself and others
• Understand your own stress risks
• Learn about specific responsibilities placed on managers

Presenter’s Bio

This course was written and designed by VinciWorks and incorporates feedback from several leading national and international law firms.

About The Course

COVID-19: Working from Home is a short, succinct course taking users through key information about working from home during the current COVID-19 pandemic. It contains vital information regarding setting up a home office, keeping data safe, having regard to cyber security and protecting users’ mental health and wellbeing.

The course includes up to date information from major news sources and the World Health Organization on the current pandemic.

The course will give users a short overview of the key elements of staying safe when working from home including understanding and minimising:

• GDPR risks
• Cyber security risks
• Mental health and wellbeing risks
• Display Screen Equipment risks
• Health and safety risk

Customisation options

The course is fully customisable. Here are just a few of the options:

• Include your organisation's business continuity plan
• Include internal working from home policies
• Add relevant contact details
• Add a workplace ergonomics self-assessment
• Add a "stress at work" self-assessment
• Include a message from the CEO or Managing Partner
• Translate into any language

Presenter’s Bio

This course was written and designed by VinciWorks and incorporates feedback from several leading national and international law firms.

About The Course

VinciWorks’ course Conflicts of interest in the Workplace: Understand your Influences provides learners with a 15-minute overview of conflicts of interest in the workplace. The course explains what a conflict of interest is and covers different situations where an employee might encounter a conflict of interest.

The course provides guidance and tips for employees in different roles on how to spot conflicts of interest in their day-to-day job. There is also advice for employees about when situations should be escalated to the risk or compliance team in an organisation.

The course covers:

• Definition of conflict of interest
• Why conflicts of interest matter
• Bribery and Corruption
• Financial conflicts of interest
• Non-financial and personal conflicts of interest
• Gifts and Hospitality
• Managing and reporting conflicts of interest

This interactive course contains a builder to ensure that the scenarios are best connected to different roles within an organisation. These roles include:

• Directors
• Human Resources
• Procurement

Presenter’s Bio

The course was written and designed by VinciWorks and incorporates feedback from several leading national and international law firms.

New anti-money laundering training

Regulated businesses are required to undertake training relevant for their staff’s role and responsibilities to ensure they have the necessary skills to protect the organisation against money laundering and terrorist financing. The new courses take a fresh, new and bold approach to money laundering training, presenting real-life scenarios and practical examples designed to be relevant to each individual user.

Our training has been built with relevance at the forefront. They contain multiple versions dependent on a user’s geographic location, practice area, industry and role in the organisation. The industries include:

• Commercial law
• Private client law
• International law firms
• High street firms
• Law firms in Offshore locations
• Law firms in Crown Dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man)
• Conveyancing
• Accountancy
• Real estate
• Financial services
• Banking
• Cryptocurrency industry

This training is suitable for all high-risk staff in an organisation as part of necessary procedures to prevent and detect money laundering. It replaces the original advanced AML course from VinciWorks. It takes a fresh, new and bold approach to money laundering training, presenting real-life scenarios and practical examples designed to be relevant to each individual user.

Presenter’s Bio

This training was written and designed by VinciWorks and incorporates feedback from several leading national and international law firms.

About the training

How can you keep your employees safe and sensible online?

Social Media: Communicating at Work, takes a practical comprehensive approach to training staff on the dangers and pitfalls of social media use at work. Through immersive scenarios, real-life case studies and interactive exercises, users will have a thorough guide to keeping themselves, and their business, safe when using social media.

Features

• Upload your own social media policy
• Customise any part of the training
• Use as a base course, or a refresher
• Inform staff what they can and cannot post of their personal accounts

Course outcomes

• Understand the impact of social media on brand reputation
• Learn how to utilise social media for professional benefit
• Know how and why to increase security settings across different platforms
• Identify the main social networks and how each can be used for business
• Be aware of potential dangers to mental health from social media use
• Know what the firm’s policy is and how to comply

About the training

Cyber security training is most effective when delivered in short, micro-learning modules and users retain the information best when it is relevant to their individual circumstances and level of expertise. Just as we may not need to teach IT professionals about password protection, HR staff don't need to know the technical specifications of the business’ firewall.

Cyber Security: Journey to Safety takes personalisation to the next level. Presenting a brand new style of training that aims to provide the ultimate in relevant learning for the user, the course contains over 50 short individual units that can be configured to create a unique and relevant learning path for each user. Using our new builder, you can dynamically configure the training to cover topics relevant to your organisation. The builder can be used multiple times to create different courses for different job roles, or micro-courses for a cyber awareness drip campaign. All of this configuration happens instantaneously, with live previews of the results.

Course features

• A dynamic builder to create the right course for the right user
• Interactivity built into every page
• A fresh and bold retro-futuristic design
• Personal risk assessments and individualised activities
• Real-life examples of cyber attacks and compliance failures

Course outcomes

• Understand the real-world impacts of cyber security breaches
• Know how to keep yourself and your business safe online
• Be aware of data scammers can use to create targeted phishing attacks
• Assess the risks of using different websites and online tools
• Learn to create a strong password and use password managers
• Protect personal and business data from cyber attackers

About the course

Recent events have once again highlighted racism and grave injustices towards people of colour, accentuating the need for both continued and renewed introspection and action to fight against racism. Sadly, these issues still exist in workplaces across the world.

As businesses think hard about whether they are doing enough to educate their staff on diversity, the demand for diversity and inclusion training has increased.

The course presents striking accounts of real-life and institutional racism. After reading each story, users are asked one simple question. The correct answer may shock you.

This course raises awareness of the prevalence and impact of institutional racism in the UK. It is designed to bring to life the real impact of race discrimination through storytelling. The user is presented with a series of short, hard hitting personal accounts of racism. While these are fictional accounts, they are drawn from the very real, all too common experiences of black, asian and ethnic minority people in the UK. After each story, users are asked one simple question about the subject. The stories are all narrated by professional voice actors, adding a powerful impact to the story.

Course outcomes

• Understand what constitutes race discrimination in the wider equality context
• Better understand systemic and institutional racism by putting yourself in someone else's shoes for a few minutes
• Develop an emotional, empathetic connection to the stories in the course
• Help users understand the impact of institutional racism on BAME people
• Learn hard-hitting facts and statistics about racism

Presenter’s Bio

The course was written and designed by VinciWorks with input from Pinsent Masons, leading global law firms and international experts on equality and diversity issues.

About the course

Tax evasion is not going away. In fact, tax evasion enforcement is only ramping up. Increased fines, more investigations and additional rules and laws to comply with mean there’s never been a more important time to ensure everyone in your organisation is tax literate.

Criminal Finances Act: A Practical Overview focuses on upskilling all staff to have the tax literacy to understand the potential risks every business faces when it comes to the complex world of tax compliance. The course takes users through what they need to know in their role in order to understand what tax evasion is, how it occurs, how we are affected, and what they must do to stop it. The course begins with an interactive game that presents strategies people might use to evade tax.

Course overview

Alongside detailed information on reasonable procedures and industry-specific scenarios, the course presents users with an interactive game to help internalise the potential tripping points in their daily job which could result in facilitating tax evasion.

The course also addresses the challenge of offshore tax jurisdictions and gives guidance on how to spot red flags. Organisations can create personalised guidance for their staff, with information about what to do and who to contact when there is a concern of tax evasion from a client. The course begins with a “course builder” that generates a course for each user based on their jurisdiction, industry and level of risk in their role. Within seconds, the course is configured into one of several versions.

Course outcomes

Those who take the course will understand:

• The relationship between tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax mitigation
• The social and economic effects of failing to prevent tax evasion
• Understand what is meant by “reasonable procedures”
• The penalties for committing an offence under the Criminal Finances Act
• Red flags for spotting facilitation of tax evasion
• Interactive quizzes to review knowledge learnt

Course features

• Users who feel they need a quick refresher on the topic can intsantly choose to learn an additional module
• Interactive game where users try and evade £1m in tax
• Begins with a unique builder that instantly generates a course that caters to the role of each user
• Interactive scenario questions to test users' ability to spot red flags
• 100% customisable — Edit every word and build custom modules

Presenter’s Bio

This course was written and designed by VinciWorks and incorporates feedback from several leading national and international law firms, accountancy firms and major corporations.

About the course

Our CoC course is a build-your-own, fully customisable experience that enables organisations to instantly turn their hefty, complex documents into a bespoke interactive course.

Decide everything from course colours and branding to the content in each unit. The exhaustive training library covers all areas of ethics and conduct in depth, leaving you to choose the topics and detail-level relevant to your organisation. You can then modify any words directly on the page to fit your internal terminology. As you modify the course, all of your changes are applied in real time and can be shared with colleagues for approval.

Course features

• Edit the content to fit your internal terminology and policies
• Add you company logo and brand colours in seconds
• Interactive learning built in throughout the course
• Can be integrated with our annual declaration tool

Integrate your CoC training with our annual declaration tool

Our course gives you the ability to integrate annual declarations management into each unit. The feature is your chance to get all your policies in front of your staff in an engaging way, while also getting their confirmation that they adhere to each policy.

With our integrated solution you can:

• Link to the relevant policy at the end of each unit
• Include short surveys, such as asking whether the user is aware of a breach related to the topic of the unit
• Ensure each user commits to upholding each relevant policy
• View responses via the Omnitrack dashboard

Presenter’s Bio

This course was written and designed by VinciWorks and incorporates feedback from several leading national and international law firms, accountancy firms and major corporations.

About the course

Despite the UK Bribery Act having come into force in 2010, bribery is still a hugely problematic issue in corporate life. Billions of pounds of fines are levied every year and frequent reports hit the headlines of investigations and prosecutions from the US Department of Justice and UK Serious Fraud Office.

Bribery cases have ensnared some of the world’s largest companies, biggest sporting bodies and most powerful politicians. The propensity for some people to act corruptly might never change, but our approach to training and compliance can.

Anti-Bribery Fundamentals will give employees the opportunity to understand the risks of bribery in their working life as well as to test their knowledge and understanding of the subject, and teach them how to avoid becoming ensnared in bribery.

Course features

When building your code of conduct training, you can choose from the following topics:

• Suitable for all types of users in an organisation, from rookies to veterans
• Includes video training
• Includes a detailed overview of bribery, including giving and receiving bribes, the impact of bribery on businesses, and how to prevent bribery
• Includes a unique course builder that allows every user to complete their own personalised course, individually tailored to their training requirements
• Interactive game and dynamic scenario questions
• The course can be customised so users take training relevant to their jurisdiction

Learning outcomes

• Users will learn about the organisation’s values and gain knowledge of how to comply with company ethics
• Learn about a wide range of topics and understand the organisation’s expectations regarding acceptable behaviour surrounding those issues
• Understand rules and regulations on core legal and ethical issues
• Learn how to best report and respond when problems arise

Learning outcomes

• Understand the requirements of the UK Bribery Act
• Learn to evaluate risks and follow the right course of action
• Know how to spot bribery risks and red flags
• Be aware of your responsibilities when working abroad or managing teams
• Consider the real-world implications of bribery and corrupt conduct

Presenter’s Bio

This course was written and designed by VinciWorks and incorporates feedback from several leading national and international law firms, accountancy firms and major corporations.

About the course

PECR: Getting to Grips is a video-based micro-course that will train staff on everything they need to know about PECR compliance, from more familiar topics such as email and SMS to possibly less well-known electronic methods that are relevant to marketing such as cookies to soft opt-ins.

Course features

• Video course with a simple, straightforward format
• Works great as a specialist refresher course for those who have already done basic GDPR training
• Provides a whistle-stop tour of everything one needs to know about PECR compliance
• Covers all industries and job roles

Learning outcomes

Users will learn:

• Key PECR regulations and the differences between GDPR and PECR
• Marketing rules under PECR
• What you need to know about spam
• The difference between genuine service messages and marketing messages, including case studies showing where people have erred on this
• ICO guidelines and recent enforcement actions
• Cookie guidelines
• Best practice for PECR compliance

About The Suite

The legal, ethical and reputational risk of bribery is real. Billions in fines are levied every year and frequent reports of investigations and prosecutions from regulating authorities across the world hit the headlines.

VinciWorks' suite of anti-bribery courses brings together gamified learning, personalised content, short bursts of information and refresher training. Our course builders make delivering the most relevant content to each employee easy, while real-life scenarios make the training engaging for the user.

Our anti-bribery courses

About The Suite

The Criminal Finances Act and other global legislation have placed anti-tax evasion measures on the corporate risk and compliance agenda. The past year has shown us that tax evasion enforcement is only ramping up. Increased investigations, large fines and new laws have demonstrated that there has never been a more important time to ensure that everyone in your organisation is on board with your compliance programme.

Our tax evasion training suite brings together gamified, customisable and relevant learning to form the ultimate tax evasion compliance solution.

Our tax evasion courses

About The Course

With remote working, less supervision and fewer opportunities for face-to-face training, it’s never been a more important time to make sure your staff are up to speed on the SRA Standards and Regulations.

SRA Standards and Regulations: A Practical Overview covers SRA standards, regulations, and account rules, delivering the information in easily digestible bite size nuggets. The course is designed to be relevant to everyone in a firm, including fee earners, support staff, partners and in-house counsel.

What's in the course?

We’ve used real-life cases to create this course, focussing on how the key aspects of each SRA Principle and Accounts Rule present themselves in different situations. The course breaks down cases where others have got it wrong, showing what the failing was, how it happened, and how it can be avoided.

About The Suite

What’s the best way to create a work culture in which everyone, from the CEO to the managers to all employees, embraces diversity and promotes equality? What is the best way to effectively train on respectful engagement with others? What about training for managers; what is the most effective way to make managers aware of their responsibilities, with training that does not feel judgemental?

Our innovative diversity suite will provide solutions for all of these issues and more. The new suite includes four different courses, each with a different focus.

The four courses in the suite are:

• Diversity and inclusion: Engaging with others
• Diversity and inclusion: Managers in focus
• Diversity and inclusion: Bystander intervention in focus
• Diversity and inclusion: Unconscious bias in focus

Key features and learning outcomes

• Hear first-person accounts covering a wide range of diversity and equality issues
• Learn facts about discrimination
• Learn about workplace equality policies
• Learn how to promote equality at work
• Learners are given the opportunity to consider what they’d do if confronted with a variety of issues

About the course

Employees of law firms are regularly confronted with ethical dilemmas in the course of their work. These dilemmas stem from conflicting principles in the ethical code and the complex nature of legal work. VinciWorks’ new course, Ethics for Law Firms, part of the larger SRA training suite, introduces learners to the foundations of ethical thinking and provides the tools for how to deconstruct dilemmas, extract the conflicting principles, evaluate the situation and make a considered decision.

Course features

• Fresh, modern, eye-catching, theme-appropriate design
• Clear, easy-to-read explanations of the SRA principles and how they come in to play in a variety of real life scenarios that employees are likely to encounter
• Includes a wide variety of scenarios from real cases with the ethical issues explained in detail
• Interactive exercises that allow users to test themselves on how they would respond in a variety of situations with various different issues at stake, in both employee’s professional and personal dealings
• Ends with a list of questions for employees to remember to ask themselves before making decisions

About the course

The FCA expects firms to demonstrate that they are ensuring vulnerable customers are treated fairly. This includes recording and monitoring to ensure the service provided to vulnerable customers is as good as those provided to other customers.

Vulnerable Clients in Financial Services sets out to teach users what makes people vulnerable, what the signs and characteristics of vulnerability are in specific target markets and customer bases, and how to provide an appropriate level of care to vulnerable customers. We have two versions of the course: a longer version for staff who need more detail and a shorter version for staff who need a higher level overview.

Learning outcomes

• How to identify vulnerable customers and understand their needs
• What one’s obligations are to ensure vulnerable customers are treated fairly
• How to meet obligations under the Principles for Businesses
• Best practice for dealing with vulnerable clients in a variety of situations

Course features

• New, clean, user-friendly scroll design
• Eye-catching animations and video content
• A sophisticated builder for personally tailored courses
• A wide range of scenarios to help learners apply what they have learned
• Interactive learning built in throughout the course, with the ability for the administrators to track responses in order to gain insights into users’ grasp of the topics
• Option to integrate with Omnitrack, our flexible data collection and reporting tool

A core part of any ESG initiative is employee training. Training all staff transforms ESG from an isolated activity undertaken by a small group of staff into a process that is deeply embedded into an organisation’s culture. Further, ESG rating agencies and reporting frameworks use training as a measure of ESG effectiveness.

VinciWorks’ ESG awareness training is designed to give your employees an overview of what ESG means, why it’s important, and what you can do to help your company achieve its ESG goals.

About The Course

An ally is an individual who is not a member of a particular under-represented group themselves, but who uses their power, voice and privilege to support people from that group (or multiple groups), such as the LGBTQ+ community, women, older people, people from an ethnic minority background or those with a disability. Allyship is all about valuing people from different backgrounds and learning about their lived experiences, so that we can stand in solidarity with them and ensure they are heard, seen and valued.

Being an ally is an active and ongoing process, and action can be taken at all levels - from challenging in the moment and supporting people who have been on the receiving end of micro-incivilities to providing feedback to perpetrators of inappropriate behaviour. This course explains what it means to be an effective ally and shows how workplace allies can help tackle things like micro-incivilities, bullying, harassment and other inappropriate behaviour, and help to make the workplace more equitable and inclusive.

This course will teach learners:

• How to be an ally
• How allyship can help marginalised groups
• How to use the 'Open The Front Door' communication framework
• The importance of awareness, empathy, action and authenticity