Your next national sales meeting or POA is just around the corner! If you haven’t thought of a fun and engaging way to make the content stick during your time in front of the reps, especially with the move to virtual events, all is not lost. There is still time to craft a compelling session to help ensure key compliance concepts are communicated effectively and learning is optimized.
Here are five ideas that might just have your participants saying, “that was the best compliance session I’ve ever attended!” Trust me, it does happen. I’ve seen and heard it myself.
Play Compliance JEOPARDY!
Jeopardy-style games have long been a staple of compliance training and the familiar format continues to be a great way to get your learners’ competitive juices flowing. It’s a popular format that your audience will recognize instantly.
PharmaCertify offers the only officially licensed JEOPARDY! game on the market and wow is it cool! You can populate the game with categories and clues written by our subject matter experts or draw questions from your own policies. Either way, our instructional designers will work with you to create a series of clues that challenge the participants’ knowledge at just the right level to enhance the learning.
Compliance JEOPARDY! is flexible. We offer a baseline off-the-shelf version to get you started, and depending on the amount of time you have at the meeting and your learning objectives, you can include up to 51 clues in one game (including Double JEOPARDY! and Final JEOPARDY!)
Make It a Compliance Mystery
Who doesn’t love a good mystery? A mystery-themed workshop is an ideal way to present new compliance concepts and reinforce existing knowledge in a live, or virtual, collaborative and information-sharing environment.
When created thoughtfully and using sound instructional principles, a mystery workshop can draw the learners in as they play “compliance detectives” to solve scenarios through their knowledge of compliance best practices and guidance. You can even make it a blended event by rolling out “clues” in the form of email messages, voicemail transcripts, and text messages, before the date of the workshop.
At PharmaCertify, we include a compliance mystery activity in our Compliance Reality Challenge. Participants begin the Compliance Mystery by reviewing the clues they were presented prior to the workshop. Once they complete that review, they are presented with a screen from which they choose red flags. They then answer a series of questions to test their understanding of the scenario and their decision-making skills.
Following the completion of the activity, facilitators briefly have the opportunity to review the scenarios and provide clarification on policies as necessary. After the workshop summary and a review of the key lessons learned, a leaderboard can be revealed to highlight the final scores.
Build a Virtual Compliance Escape Room
Escape rooms are all the rage, and a virtual escape room can be a great device for transferring that popularity into a memorable learning activity.
The escape room can build trust and collaboration as participants work in teams to solve challenges and use codes to escape. An escape room can be a blended event, with core training and other pre-work delivered prior to the activity, which will allow you to focus on specific concepts during your time with the participants.
Escape room activities begin with a scene for the group of learners to explore. Each participant clicks on each “hotspot” to review key information. Once all hotspots have been explored, a “Next” button appears, and participants are presented with a series of questions regarding the scene. As members of a team answer questions, the score for that team is averaged automatically to generate a final team score. The workshops are generally designed for a 45-minute duration, and include introductory remarks, debriefs between activities, and wrap-up remarks.
Build Your Own Compliance Scenarios
Scenario-based learning is a tried-and-true method for helping learners improve their decision-making skills. Scenarios give your reps the chance to apply knowledge from previous training in a safe environment.
Our Compliance Scenarios training game is an easy way to create role-play situations for your next meeting. With Compliance Scenarios, you can transport the audience into simulated interactions with healthcare professionals during the training session.
We’ll work with you to develop discussion points for a series of branching scenarios, and we’ll create the photo or illustrated images to go along with the content. When learners think critically to solve a simple or complex scenario, retention is increased, and learning is enhanced!
Pursue Trivia (see what I did there?)
Who doesn’t like trivia? In fact, did you know that new versions of TRIVIAL PURSUIT are still being released. There’s a new “Master Edition” available with over 3,000 questions? Looks like my holiday shopping list just got a little longer.
Whether they are played online, around the kitchen table, in a bar, or during your company’s training meeting, trivia games are a powerful way to pull participants into a fun learning experience.
Compliance Trivia by PharmaCertify is customizable and can turn your session into a competitive experience through an assortment of question types, including multiple choice, select all that apply, image match, and polling.
Even if you’ve already mapped out an activity for that next meeting, but you need one more reinforcement activity to fill the time available, Compliance Trivia will leave your audience brimming with confidence and compliance knowledge.
Summary
The time available to capture the audience’s attention at a sales meeting may seem fleeting but the lessons your participants learn will be incorporated in their daily work activities well beyond the session. Themed workshops and games are just a few of the options available to “make the learning stick,” but an engaging and meaningful session is a necessary and important step in the continuous process of reducing risk and creating a stronger culture of compliance and ethics in your company.
Thanks for reading. As always, I welcome any comments or feedback.
Sean Murphy
PharmaCertify by NXLevel Solutions