Reasonable minds can differ when it comes to identifying the ultimate goal of compliance training or what it means for compliance training to be effective, and they often do.

Traditionally, compliance training has been designed in a somewhat academic mannerโ€”thorough coverage of a particular topic, perhaps with a few examples along the way, and then a test at the end to find out what the employee has learned about the subject. The problem with this approach is that while the training may cover the material well, employees are not regularly retaining what they have learned from the course.