3 — Mandatory Compliance Training

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[Verse 1]
Every year the training comes around again
Sexual harassment, safety, and some EEO
Click through slides while checking email on the side
Wonder if this box-checking helps us grow
Data privacy, ethics, workplace violence too
Manager training for the leadership crew
But here's the question we should really ask
Does compliance theater help us do the task?

[Chorus]
Mandatory training, check the box today
OSHA, FMLA, showing the legal way
But if it's just compliance theater on display
Cynicism grows and good behaviors fade away
Evidence-based design is what we need
Not just defensibility, but change indeed
Mandatory training done the proper way
Makes workplaces better every single day

[Verse 2]
Sexual harassment training, state-mandated law
Anti-discrimination, EEO for all
Workplace safety standards, OSHA general plus
Industry-specific rules that cover all of us
Code of conduct, ethics, set the standard high
Diversity and inclusion, reaching for the sky
But employees rolling eyes and clicking through
Means the training's failing what it's meant to do

[Chorus]
Mandatory training, check the box today
OSHA, FMLA, showing the legal way
But if it's just compliance theater on display
Cynicism grows and good behaviors fade away
Evidence-based design is what we need
Not just defensibility, but change indeed
Mandatory training done the proper way
Makes workplaces better every single day

[Bridge]
HR professionals, here's your call to action
Push back on programs lacking interaction
Reasonable accommodation, FMLA rules
Performance documentation, management tools
Don't accept the minimum legal defense
Make training meaningful, not just pretense
Information security, data privacy care
Quality over quantity, show that you care

[Chorus]
Mandatory training, check the box today
OSHA, FMLA, showing the legal way
But if it's just compliance theater on display
Cynicism grows and good behaviors fade away
Evidence-based design is what we need
Not just defensibility, but change indeed
Mandatory training done the proper way
Makes workplaces better every single day

[Outro]
From harassment prevention to workplace safety
Design with purpose, not just regulatory
Mandatory training with integrity
Builds the culture that we want to see

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