How to Deal with Those Pesky Compliance Courses
May 22nd, 2012
I always joke about how many times I’ve had to take a course on how not to receive bribes, yet I’ve never been in a job where I was important enough to be bribed. The reason I had to take the course was because somewhere in the organization it was determined that everyone had to learn how not to get bribed whether or not it was relevant. Most likely you’ve also had to take similar types of compliance courses. You know the drill. ...
In a recent post I made this comment about rapid elearning tools: 
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