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The aim is to make the safer action understandable and practical in the work people actually do.",[11,15,16],{},"A course is one part of a programme. Employees also need a clear reporting route, useful feedback and support from managers. Training cannot replace access controls, mail protection or incident response.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"start-with-a-job-not-a-course-catalogue","Start with a job, not a course catalogue",[11,23,24],{},"Choose a decision your employees need to make. A finance team may need to verify changes to supplier bank details. A support team may need to check who is requesting access to an account. These are examples, not findings about your organisation.",[11,26,27],{},"Agree the audience, learning objective and owner. Then choose an activity that lets people practise the decision. Short lessons can explain a concept; a discussion or authorised simulation can help people apply it.",[11,29,30,37],{},[31,32,36],"a",{"href":33,"rel":34},"https:\u002F\u002Fcsrc.nist.gov\u002Fpubs\u002Fsp\u002F800\u002F50\u002Fr1\u002Ffinal",[35],"nofollow","NIST’s guidance on cybersecurity and privacy learning programmes"," describes a programme approach that includes implementation, evaluation and improvement.",[18,39,41],{"id":40},"connect-training-and-phishing-exercises","Connect training and phishing exercises",[11,43,44],{},"A phishing simulation gives employees a controlled situation in which to practise recognising and reporting a deceptive request. Explain the intended learning, make help available and decide how you will follow up. Avoid turning results into a public ranking of individual failures.",[11,46,47,48,52],{},"Before launch, check delivery and reporting with a test group. Our ",[31,49,51],{"href":50},"\u002Fresources\u002Fphishing-programme-checklist","phishing programme checklist"," covers the preparation and review steps.",[18,54,56],{"id":55},"measure-more-than-completion","Measure more than completion",[11,58,59],{},"Record who was assigned training, who completed it and which follow-up actions remain open. Keep those measures separate from simulation responses and real incidents. They answer different questions.",[11,61,62,63,67],{},"Compare exercises only after considering the audience and scenario. A change in click rate is not, by itself, proof of a change in real-world risk. 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