This course is for legal, compliance, and business professionals who want to turn legal knowledge into practical action. You will begin by learning how to communicate legal risk to executives, lead with business impact, and offer compliant alternatives instead of a flat no. You will then learn how to convert dense statutes, such as the FCPA accounting provisions, into system-enforced controls and binary checklists. Finally, you will study how to design compliance training using scenarios, case studies, adult learning research, and risk-based tailoring, evaluate it with the Kirkpatrick framework, and build your own training segment.
Ethics & Compliance Law: Turning Rules into Business Action
Ethics & Compliance Law: Turning Rules into Business Action
This course is part of Ethics and Compliance Law for Business Professionals Specialization
Instructor: Nicola Sharpe
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1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
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What you'll learn
Communicate legal and compliance risk to executives by leading with business impact and offering compliant alternatives
Translate statutes like the FCPA accounting provisions into system-enforced controls and binary checklists
Design and evaluate scenario-based compliance training using adult learning principles and the Kirkpatrick framework
Skills you'll gain
- Training and Development
- Training Programs
- Adult Learning Principles
- Process Improvement
- Risk Management Framework
- Internal Controls
- Compliance Management
- Employee Training
- Law, Regulation, and Compliance
- Instructional Design
- Financial Controls
- Legal Risk
- Regulatory Compliance
- Business Ethics
- Legal Strategy
- Risk Management
- Ethical Standards And Conduct
- Developing Training Materials
- Compliance Training
- Regulation and Legal Compliance
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Assessments
15 assignments
Taught in English
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