We help organisations rethink compliance training by focusing on the behaviours that help people do the right thing at work. Because that’s what reduces risk and increases impact.

We know that conventional compliance training doesn’t generate much engagement or have much impact on what people actually do in their work.

Focusing on the behaviours that underpin safe and ethical conduct has helped organisations save time and money on their compliance training and achieve greater impact in the workplace.

So if you need to ensure people do the right things when they’re handling data, spending money, contracting services, using social media, making recruitment decisions, or doing anything where the safety and integrity of your organisation is at stake, Acteon can help.

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Most problems with compliance, ethics or integrity arise through what’s referred to as “wrongdoing by good people”. So, except in very rare cases, people don’t set out with malicious intent. They want to do the right thing, but they make mistakes because they’re busy, or distracted, or under pressure, or facing any of the other, very human, challenges in our busy working lives.

And things are particularly challenging now – with economic headwinds, the disruptive power of AI, hybrid working, and increasing cybersecurity threats.

Helping people do the right thing

So, amid the challenge and change, how can you create an environment that promotes competent compliance – helping people do the right things, and making sure they’re providing an effective first line of defence for your organisation?

Promote the simple actions that everyone can use

Our human-centred design approach boosts engagement with compliance and helps make it both positive and actionable. We build on the insight and experience you already have, to:

Acteon work like part of the internal team. I’ve rarely experienced service like it.”

Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Lundbeck

"We didn’t want boring e-learning. We were determined to create something unique – and Acteon delivered that for us."

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identify the simple actions that everyone can use to promote safety and integrity

connect those actions to the things that engage and motivate your people

create memorable communication and learning to drive positive action in the workplace.

It’s an approach that’s been recognised through multiple award-winning projects across a wide range of sectors.

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FAQs

How can I reduce compliance training time without losing effectiveness?

Too often, compliance training focuses on policy and process. You can reduce compliance training time - and increase impact - by focusing on specific behaviours that help people do the right thing. Often, it’s a few simple actions that make all the difference. By targeting these, training becomes shorter, more relevant, and more likely to change what people do at work.

How do I make compliance training more engaging?

Any training is more engaging when it focuses on real behaviours and practical actions, not policies to memorise. So make the required actions simple and memorable. And connecting the training messages to what actually motivates employees – things they care about – helps makes compliance feel like a valuable habit rather than a box-ticking exercise.

Why does traditional compliance training often fail to change behaviour?

Traditional compliance training often treats the problem as an information gap - assuming that if people know the rules, they’ll follow them. In reality, most compliance failures happen because people are busy, distracted, under pressure, or unsupported in the moment when a decision needs to be made. Training that doesn’t address those conditions won’t reliably change what people actually do in the moments that matter.

How does Acteon’s behavioural approach help?

Compliance training is effective when it targets the specific choices and actions employees need to use, connects those actions to what motivates people, and builds communication that makes the right behaviour easy to remember. This is Acteon's approach to compliance challenges - and it’s been recognised through multiple award-winning projects across a wide range of sectors.

What kinds of compliance challenges does Acteon support?

Acteon supports a huge range of compliance challenges including code of conduct/ ethics training and policy roll-out, GDPR, Health and Safety, Cybersecurity, DE&I, whistleblowing and speak up training - any situation where the safety, integrity, or ethical standards of an organisation depend on people consistently making the right call.