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These Uncommon Compliance Training Courses May Help Your Business
It’s not enough to train your employees on how to perform the basic functions of their jobs. Your workers and the company they work for don’t exist in a vacuum, nor do they exist independently of the world around them. Adherence to federal and state laws regarding employee conduct, or even to company policy, isn’t something that can be covered effectively by orientation or learning as they go. Knowledge of those policies and laws almost certainly require specialized education. For that, you need more than just in house guidance. If you really want to make sure your company is properly meeting its responsibilities to external rules and expectations, you need to get your employees proper training on compliance.
You may know about some of the more common kinds of compliance training. Sexual harassment and diversity training are the two kinds almost every company utilizes. While absolutely essential to maintaining proper adherence to regulations, those two are far from the only kinds of compliance training your company could benefit from. This article will go over some of the useful, albeit lesser known corporate education courses that can not only increase your company’s regulatory efficiency, but also further ensure that your workforce is better trained than your competition. Here are a few useful, yet uncommon courses that you should consider.
Cyber Security Compliance Training
The world is increasingly interconnected, and business is no different. Connectivity is almost universal in the corporate world, and if you’re reading this article that almost certainly means that your business is among the hundreds of thousands or more that rely on the internet to carry out its basic functions. Whether you use company email or have entire facilities dedicated to servers, your company needs to understand the importance of cyber security. You may think your IT department is sufficient for keeping your company safe, but they aren’t the only ones with access to your connections. Any employee that uses a computer can bring potential ruin if they don’t know how to adhere to safety guidelines.
To illustrate this point, consider the case of Stuxnet, one of the most famous pieces of malware in digital history. As you can see here, Stuxnet was a computer worm that targeted Iranian nuclear facilities. It’s widely accepted that the worm was designed by American intelligence agencies, particularly the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in conjunction is Israeli intelligence agencies to harm Iranian nuclear capabilities. When the worm entered the networks at Natanz, it targeted the facility’s centrifuges and forced them to spin at a higher rate than usual. This damaged the centrifuges and rendered large parts of the facility inoperable. The damage was extreme, but the method by which Stuxnet entered the network was mundane. It was left on a USB stick and dropped into the Natanz nuclear facility parking lot, where an unsuspecting employee picked it up and plugged it in to their workstation computer.
If a nuclear facility was able to be brought to its knees by a momentary lapse in judgment, any company is similarly vulnerable. Do you think each and every one of your employees has the kind of base judgment not to accidentally expose your operations to vulnerabilities? There are so many potential vectors of attack where you least expect them (for example, did you know a skilled hacker could access your network through the thermostat?) that you can’t afford to keep your employees ignorant of cyber security. Compliance training can help fill those gaps, and can get your workers up to speed in how to keep your assets safe.
Ethics Compliance Training
Philosophers have debated the core principles of ethics for thousands of years. Intellectual titans have argued over what we owe to one another, and competing theories still draw substantial discussion to this day. The study of ethics is a complex one, and the corporate world is almost certainly not going to be the arena in which mankind figures it all out. In fact, many times it can seem like the corporate world and ethics have as much in common as night and day. However, corporate ethics is just as important a topic to go over with your workers.
While an ethics training course for your employees isn’t going to go over the finer points of deontological duty vs. utilitarian consequentialism, it can help your workers understand how to conduct themselves as representatives of your company. It’s not uncommon for an employee to be taken in by a client’s gifts or promises, which can create ethical conundrums. As you can see at https://hbr.org/2018/03/why-compliance-programs-fail, there are some problems with how most companies engage in ethics training. To maximize your company’s potential, you should consider hiring an external agency to provide the appropriate training for your training courses.
Umar Nisar was born and raised in the busy city of Abbottabad. As a journalist, Umar Nisar has contributed to many online publications including PAK Today and the Huffing Post. In regards to academics, Umar Nisar earned a degree in business from the Abbottabad UST, Havelian. Umar Nisar follows the money and covers all aspects of emerging tech here at The Hear Up.
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