Eat, Sleep, Click, Repeat. Is this what corporate compliance training is like for you? Are you trapped in hamster wheel hell, with a "Get it done" mindset and a "Make it stop!" plea?
sub-10, the digital compliance learning provider, can take your training agonies and transform them into learning excellence. Here’s how…
The sub-10 Experience
sub-10 prides itself on ‘turning have to do learning into want to do learning.’ While most businesses are content to ensure compliance training exists, sub-10 focuses on what the experience was like, how effective it was, and what impact it had on individuals and their business. We talk about learning, not training. Training teaches a particular skill or behaviour; learning is the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience. Training is a shortterm fix; learning covers the long-term. Training is for the masses; learning is aimed at the individual. We’re changing how people learn.
What’s wrong with corporate training?
The British Chambers of Commerce states that up to 90% of corporate training is either forgotten, never understood, or never applied. When we consider the way training is deployed, this is hardly surprising.
Doing the same dull training in one annual hit year after year after year is simply not effective. Corporate compliance training needs to be designed differently, with a bite-sized progressive approach that enables learners to build up the required knowledge or skill. This is the sub-10 way. We have an ever-evolving curriculum composed of units that never exceed 10 minutes in duration but always inform and engage. These units make perfect sense in any order you choose. They’re built up, not chopped up, with each one containing a single learning outcome to guarantee knowledge transfer.
Why so short?
Short doesn’t mean insubstantial. Bitesize is the right size. Our concise units of 10 minutes are engaging, fit more easily into a busy schedule, and can be referred to as a reference tool in the moment of need. And the science backs us up. In a paper by Harvard Business Publishing, Jeff DeSmet and Marisa Plowman discuss the benefits of learning in shorter segments over a longer duration. They state that it can lead to a richer and more lasting learning experience. They praise the benefits of practice, reflection, and repeated application.
But do we really need academics to tell us this? Think back to the last time you were made to take that one-hour Code of Conduct course. You were bored, weren’t you? Chances are, you clicked through page after page of text, only occasionally encountering a multiple-choice question or a five-minute animation that sent you to sleep. You were glad when the whole thing was over. It was have to do learning…and you probably learned nothing.
It’s a fact: information is not forgotten if learners are encouraged to recall, apply, and reinforce what they have learned.
How it works at sub-10 We’re different. We have content and a platform that work together to spare you the pains and frustrations of the past and enhance your experience. This approach differentiates us in the marketplace, as both content and platform are underpinned by our learning design. Currently, our content covers units on Code of Conduct, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Anti-Money Laundering, AntiBribery and Corruption, and Safeguarding but fresh topics and units are added all the time. And if a piece of content changes, then the unit can easily be pulled and a new one put in its place. It then becomes a dynamic offering that keeps the learner up-to-date, and the business protected over the longer term. This dynamic quality mirrors the one constant within the compliance industry: that the state of risk and compliance is everchanging. Firestarters
We’ve had enough of the hamster wheel approach. It makes us dizzy and it leads nowhere. The sub-10 way is about empowering people with the knowledge and facts that they need to succeed. Only then will individuals and businesses gain from the smarter processes, heightened ethical awareness and innovation, improved performance, and the other benefits associated with compliance training.
The poet W. B. Yeats once said, “Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” sub-10 are proud to be considered firestarters.
