A Music and Multimedia Approach to Helping Ethics and Compliance Entertain, Educate and Engage Employees

CHICAGO, Sept. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Learnings & Entertainments (L&E), a creative services and content provider with roots in the improv comedy community, has launched its first product line, the L&E Culture, Code & Speak Up Suites, a library of music and quick-hit multimedia communications to help companies promote their ethics, compliance, legal and HR teams and the resources they provide. The L&E Suites are a collection of commercials: songs, music videos and jingles as well as easy-to-share top-10 lists, slide shows, animation, GIFs, memes and articles promoting good corporate culture and workplace behavior in entertaining ways.

"In most companies there are executives to help employees navigate their jobs within the rules. These folks are there to advise and support, but employees are often afraid or apathetic. So there is a disconnect," says Ronnie Feldman, president of L&E. "And it doesn't help that the policies, training and support materials are often boring and preachy. We are creating a large variety of fun, positive advertising-like materials to help bridge the gap, with the simple message, 'We are here to help. Help us help you.'"

The L&E Culture, Code & Speak Up Suites were created in collaboration with ethics, compliance and legal professionals from Incyte, LinkedIn, Marathon and Progressive. With employee engagement as the goal, L&E Suites materials were designed to make ethics, compliance, legal and HR teams and their resources more approachable. The music and multimedia formats open up new channels of communication.

"Employees aren't always sitting in front of a computer. Not everyone has the time or inclination to sit through a long training," says Feldman. "Music is memorable and a great communication vehicle. Light, fun social media formats convey information quickly and are easily shared, which helps reach more people, more frequently and in interesting ways." The Suites include assets in a wide variety of formats and styles to account for different tastes and sensibilities.

"L&E has given us unique, creative tools for engaging people and conveying key compliance and ethics learning points in a variety of entertaining ways," says Michael Uth, corporate compliance and ethics officer at The Progressive Corporation.

"Our primary focus is cultivating an effective, innovative compliance program that's both values-based and culturally relevant," says Nicole Tarasoff, global compliance and integrity project manager at LinkedIn. "L&E understands the need to make learning fun and flexible, with quirky materials that resonate across workplace cultures. And since we're always looking for new ways to communicate core compliance concepts, working with them to bolster our messaging with clever resources was a great fit."

"Our new compliance app, Palmtree, was developed to make it easier to get important information into the hands of employees who aren't always in front of a computer," says Garin Bergman, President Guidant Technology. "The L&E materials integrate seamlessly into this medium. Videos, GIFs, memes, slide shows can be integrated into the app to increase content visibility and awareness.  It makes compliance more interesting and engaging to employees."

Find more information about the L&E Culture, Code & Speak Up Suites at http://www.learningsentertainments.com/suites.

About Learnings & Entertainments: L&E is a creative services and content provider that uses a network of comedians, musicians, writers and performers from the improv comedy community to help socialize learning and improve communication in corporate environments. L&E was built on:

• The Power of Fun - Boring doesn't work. Learning is more effective when it is engaging and fun.
• The Forgetting Curve - 87% of corporate learning is lost within the first month. Therefore, there is benefit in more regular, positive, proactive reinforcement.

For more information about L&E, go to www.learningsentertainments.com or call 872.302.7529.

SOURCE Learnings & Entertainments

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