Categories, Subjects, and Topics

Created by Jeff Hrusko, Modified on Wed, 5 Jul, 2023 at 9:23 PM by Jeff Hrusko

MaxLearn content is organized by Categories, Subjects, and Topics.


Category

    ↪Subject

        ↪Topic


Category is a board title for a group of subjects. Categories can reflect your company's organization or function, or they can reflect major areas or domains of learning.


Categories can reflect your company's organization or function, such as:


  • Accounting
  • Marketing
  • Sales
  • IT
  • Human Resources
  • Compliance
  • Quality Control


Or they can reflect major areas or domains of learning, such as:


  • Leadership
  • Business acumen
  • Compliance
  • Information security
  • Software
  • Professional Certifications


It is important as an organization that we work together to determine your categorizes during the onboarding process.


A Subject is a title for a group of topics. Subjects are assigned to a category to organize your files in more detail. Examples of subjects include: Financial Crimes, Product knowledge, Information Security, Privacy


Topics are specific and related to a Subject. A topic highlights a single, or closely related concepts, activities, role, policy or a specific thing, such as a product, or product type.  


Learning progress is tracked at the topic level. For each topic, a learner can have a status of Not Started, In-flight, Grad, and Pro per each learning level. Examples of Topics may include: Anti-money Laundering, Sales Practices, Marketing materials, a specific product or service



Sample Categories, Subjects & Topics


Category

Subject

Topic

Compliance

Financial Crimes

Anti-money Laundering 

Training supporting Compliance related topics, subjects and areas of interests supporting the company’s adherence to laws, rules, regulations and, associated policies best practices.

Instruction on the prevention of financial crimes, or activities that involves fraudulent or dishonest behavior for the purposes of personal financial gain.

Training supporting the company’s effort to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. 

Fraud

Training to prevent the intentionally deceptive actions designed to provide the perpetrator with an unlawful gain or to deny a right to a victim. Types of fraud include tax fraud, credit card fraud, wire fraud, securities fraud, and bankruptcy fraud. Fraudulent activity can be carried out by one individual, multiple individuals or a business firm as a whole.

Anti-bribery / Anti-corruption 

Training designed to eradicate or prevent dishonest or fraudulent conduct, especially in a political context. Supporting prohibit the payment of anything of value by persons or entities to foreign government officials or employees of state-owned enterprises to obtain a benefit.

Privacy 

Protecting Personally Identifiable Information 

Training on protecting client and employee data and personal information. 

Training instructing employees on the company’s policies, procedures and processes to protect employee and client personally identifiable information from misuse. 

HIPAA  

Instruction detailing the company’s adherence to The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

Information Security

Material Non-Public Information MNPI

How to defend against the unauthorized use of company information.

Training detailing the information barriers in place to safeguard MNPI. 

Information Security standards 

Password standards, authentication and prohibition against misuse. 

Preventing Phishing Attacks 

How to prevent Phishing and report a phishing attempt. 

Risk Mitigation and Controls

Compliance Risk Assessment 

How to conduct a compliance risk assessment, determining controls, and implementation. 

Compliance monitoring, reporting and testing

Testing controls and documenting findings. 

Trade Monitoring 

Ethical Standards 

Conflicts of interest 

Training focuses on maintain the company’s ethical standards of operation and conducting business 

Training to identify, avoid and report, actual and potential conflicts of interest. 

Outside business activities 

Training on the reporting of outside business activities. 

Health and Safety

Safety at the workplace

OSHA Requirements and Training 

Rules polices and procedure for remaining safe in the workplace 

Company and job specific safety policies and procedure. Ensuring adherence to OSHA safety standards. 

Fire Safety 

Fire safety at our company. Evacuation plan, fire drills and identifying your safety officer. 

Preventing Workplace violence 

Signs to look for to prevent workplace violence. De-escalation techniques. When and how to report an issue. 

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuation 

Pandemic preparedness 

Protocols for handling a pandemic - guidelines, and where to find information. 

Staying home if you are not feeling well

Heath programs

Overview of company health programs. 

Human Resources

New Employee Onboarding 

Company Overview

Instruction covering subjects and topics supporting the functions and policies of the company’s human resource department.

Code of Conduct 

Company Values

HR Policies 

Workplace Standards. 

Time reporting 

Sick time, vacation time, corporate holidays and hours of operations. 

Wage and Hour

Contingent Workers 

Working Remotely 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

Business Acumen

Business Strategy, Objectives and Revenue Streams

Professional skills are career competencies and abilities used in the workplace that are beneficial for nearly any job. Professional skills are a combination of both hard skills (job-specific duties that can be trained) and soft skills (transferable traits like work ethic, communication, and leadership). 

Business acumen, also known as business savviness, business sense and business understanding, is keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business situation (risks and opportunities) in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.

Risk management

Market Intelligence

Innovation

Interpersonal Skills

Effective Business Communication

Business writing

Presentation skills

Project management 

Project management basics

Agile project management 

Talent Development

Leadership

Leadership Skills

Instruction covering subjects and topics focused on developing the skills, talents and competencies of its employees. 

Executive Presence 

Manager Training 

Business Strategy and Revenue Streams

Products and service

Business Model 

Sales and Marketing

Marketing Materials

Brand Guidelines

Training on topics and subjects supporting the sales and marketing concepts and strategies. 

User Appropriate Marketing materials 

Sales Practices 

Company Sales Strategy 

Suitability 

Competitor Analysis

Sales Forecasting 

Product knowledge

Market Intelligence

Innovation

Product features

Customer Service

Providing Exceptional Customer Service

What makes for expectational customer service

DEVELOPING A CUSTOMER SERVICE MIND-SET

The art and science of active listening

IDENTIFYING CUSTOMER NEEDS and Setting Expectations 

Effective Verbal and Written Communication Skills

De-escalation 

Closing the loop - following up 

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