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Speak Up

It is essential for firms to have a strong speak up culture to ensure that staff raise concerns if they've witnessed misconduct. This is vital to the success of a business.

Addressing the risks and barriers to speaking up is an important part of nurturing this culture. 

Our Speak Up training course outlines the benefits of creating a speak up culture, why psychological safety matters, how to reduce the risk of harm and drive forward lasting cultural change.

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  • 25 Minutes
  • All staff
  • Based on UK legislation, but suitable for global audiences upon the removal of UK-specific references and translation as necessary.
  • Compliance Essentials Library

Learning objectives

  • Recognise the benefits and challenges of a speak up culture
  • Appreciate what psychological safety is and why it matters in creating the right culture
  • Identify indicators of psychological safety
  • Overcome barriers and speak up to protect our business and reduce the risk of harm to colleagues, customers and markets
  • Recognise best practice and how to support colleagues

    What can you expect your employees to learn?

Welcome

What is a speak up culture?

  • Scenario 1: The bully
  • Scenario 2: The 'handsy' manager
  • Scenario 3: The high-net-worth manager
  • Crossing the line

Getting the culture right

What are the push/pull factors?

  • Bystander apathy
  • Other factors
  • Scenario: Recognising the barriers
  • You decide: No reports!
  • You decide: What are the issues?

Creating psychological safety

  • You decide: Recognising the indicators
  • The bully revisited
  • Learning lessons from other industries

Our approach: Overcoming the barriers

  • The 4D Bystander Intervention Model
  • Scenario: The 'handsy' manager revisited
  • Scenario: Out of sight, out of mind
  • Examples

Summary

Affirmation

Assesment

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Your questions, answered

Common FAQs

Are Skillcast courses SCORM-compliant?

Yes. This means they can be delivered via the Skillcast Portal or any other SCORM-compliant Learning Management System.

What other tools are needed beyond training?

A comprehensive compliance solution often needs more than just training. Alongside e-learning, tools like declarations, surveys, and registers that track compliance tasks are usually essential. Skillcast provides full support to help you set up these additional tools.

Is our training content still compliant with the latest legislation?

  • You can check the latest course content updates in our library updates page: https://www.skillcast.com/compliance-course-library-updates
  • For major legislative changes, we:
    • Will send you email alerts to ensure you are notified
    • Offer you a free trial of newly created or updated content
    • Host webinars with compliance experts to explain the changes and how our training supports your ongoing compliance

Can you translate our content into other languages?

Yes, we offer translations in a wide range of languages. Let us know your needs, and we’ll confirm availability or work with you to plan translations for your selected modules.

How can I give employees a secure way to record suspicious activity so we can act quickly?

Our Suspicious Activity Register allows staff to log concerns or irregularities they observe, helping you detect potential issues early. The secure register can be reviewed by compliance teams, enabling prompt investigation and action.

What file types are supported by the Skillcast system?

Features

Supported file types and details

File Exchange

File types: PDF, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, SCORM and xAPI files, and compressed zip files. Max file size: Default is 1GB, can be increased to a max of 2GB

SCORM files

Versions: SCORM 1.2, SCORM 1.2 for Moodle, SCORM 2004 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition. Max file size: 1024MB

xAPI file

Max file size: 2GB

Videos

File types: MP4 or MOV. Videos must be optimised, with a max file size of 100MB. If the file is bigger, our Design Team can help

Images

File types: jpg, png and gif. The file size should ideally be 100KB, but it can be up to 250KB

CPD evidence

File types: Word, PDF, Excel and CSV. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Policy documents

PDF or Word File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Offline activities evidence

File types: PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PNG, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PPTX and MSG. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Client logo files

File types provided by client: EPS, PDF, AI and SVG

Registers

PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPT, PPTX, POT, PPA, PPS, JPG, JPEG, PJEPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, MP4, MOV, WMV, CPTX, CP, TXT, ZIP and MSG files

Declarations

JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, XLS and XLSX files