Choosing the Right Compliance Partner: Traliant vs. LRN

Busy HR leaders juggle many priorities, and identifying the best compliance training can be one of the most challenging — especially when the pressure is mounting to choose a vendor. You need programs that produce lasting and meaningful behavioral change in the workplace, not just ones that check a box. Your employees want training that’s engaging and relevant to their experiences. One major U.S. bank found out the hard way that the hidden costs of ineffective training are all too real after receiving a $3 billion fine for a check-the-box training mentality. When the stakes are this high, having the right partner on your side makes all the difference.

What sets Traliant apart from LRN

LRN isn’t new to the compliance training space and touts broad course offerings and an established client base. But options alone don’t solve the core challenges for HR and compliance professionals who need effective, engaging training.

1. Focused relevance vs. a broad platform

LRN offers over 500 courses spanning more than 24 risk areas and includes global options in over 70 languages. While the breadth may sound impressive, it’s also complex. Consider how many critical areas your training needs to cover — 500-plus courses may seem great, but how many are actually relevant to your needs?

Most organizations focus on a compact set of core topics, including any state-mandated education. As a result, 44% of employees will spend 2 to 4 hours annually in training, while 33% will spend 5 hours or more. The shift of attention from core activities means every one of those hours must count, so quality matters much more than quantity.

Rather than overwhelming admins with hundreds of options, Traliant offers a focused catalog of 100-plus legally vetted courses in over 100 languages to close the compliance gaps. Each course is industry-relevant and purpose-built, with equal emphasis on legal compliance and employee experience, and addresses essential topics like HIPAA training, sexual harassment prevention and lawful hiring and interviewing practices. This approach ensures that the hours your employees invest in training have the maximum impact on behavioral change.

2. Modern simplicity vs. traditional complexity

Training that doesn’t evolve with the risks is training that will get you into trouble. Consider the bank from the introduction, which failed to update its training to identify and prevent money laundering for almost a decade. Even though every employee checked the completion box, the course didn’t keep pace with known threats as they advanced. Clearly, it’s not enough for your workforce to dutifully take the quizzes and click through the screens.

Why make compliance training harder than it needs to be? LRN’s broad course offerings make it overly complex and disconnected — and more time-intensive and challenging to update as things change.

With Traliant’s intuitive operation and self-serve customization tools, it’s easy to bring your content up to speed with a few clicks. Plus, you have the confidence of an in-house legal team reviewing all courses as regulatory requirements evolve, ensuring your learning stays current with changing laws. Traliant’s expertise also extends to state-specific versions for major jurisdictions like California, New York and Illinois. There’s no guesswork about whether you’re compliant, and you don’t have to track varying local requirements.

3. Speed to results vs. lengthy deployments

When compliance gaps exist, every minute matters, and being fast often means reducing risks. A harassment incident, data breach or safety violation won’t wait for LRN to finish a months-long customization process. Yet many organizations find themselves in exactly this position of needing immediate access and facing lengthy implementation schedules.

LRN’s customization capabilities come with a significant time trade-off. Their comprehensive approach can require months of development, review cycles and technical integration before employees see any new content. As a result, organizations are left vulnerable in the interim.

Traliant takes a different approach with a streamlined process that gets content to your employees on your schedule. A combination of a focused catalog, customizations and self-service tools gives you super-fast access to legally vetted, engaging compliance training. The speed advantage also extends beyond deployment. When regulations change or incidents occur, Traliant’s agility lets you respond immediately, helping keep your organization protected in real time.

4. Cinematic storytelling vs. canned compliance content

Humans are hardwired to process visual information, with about 20% of the brain dedicated to it. When you consider that people forget about 40% of what they learned within 20 minutes, making sure training sticks is key to lasting behavioral change. Text-filled slides and canned, generic performances that don’t reflect the reality of your employees’ everyday work experiences won’t work. You need compelling visual aids and relevant content for effective programs that produce tangible results.

Traliant offers social-media style Micro Reels and TV-style, cinematic storytelling performed by professional actors as the antidote to dry, corporate training. This approach combines audio and visual elements to engage employees, promoting:

• Better comprehension: People grasp and understand abstract ideas more clearly through visual representations.
• Higher retention: Visual and verbal processing occur in different parts of the brain. Our minds have different pathways to create memory when information is combined, which can boost retention and recall.
• Diverse learning styles: Cinematic storytelling respects the variety of learning styles that exist, creating more inclusive workplaces and improving the learning experience.

Traliant updates the content each year, so your employees watch fresh, relevant scenarios instead of reruns.

The bottom line

For many HR leaders and compliance professionals, the right choice comes down to whether you want to manage training complexity like with LRN, or allow your organization to focus on practical, measurable results.

Traliant is ideal for companies that prioritize:

• Compliance training that drives behavioral change, not just completion rates
• Quick implementation of customized modules
• Engaging, cinematic content that employees actually retain
• Self-service tools with simplified administration
• The confidence of legally vetted courses with prompt updates to reflect regulatory changes

Take the next step with a free trial of Traliant

Effective training helps your organization avoid the costly outcomes of compliance failures, employee turnover and reputational damage. Traliant is the partner you can trust for engaging, legally vetted, customizable content that your employees will actually retain and apply. Our solutions form a fully integrated compliance ecosystem that helps your company mitigate risks, boost morale and meet regulatory requirements.

See what makes Traliant different firsthand by requesting your free trial today.