Second City Communications
Bringing Ethics & Compliance Programming To Life

As the corporate services division of the world famous, Chicago, improv comedy theater, Second City Communications (SCC) is having tremendous success in the ethics/compliance awareness and education category under the general drive to make this programming more engaging so that it resonates, connects and has a bigger impact. We operate under the principle that you can't bore people into learning anything.

We blend humor and learning and audience involvement to raise the profile of important ethics/compliance issues so that it reaches your employees in a meaningful way. We take a blended learning approach (workshops, live shows, demonstrations & keynotes, video, audio, and online tools) to create original content that your people can relate to which helps with education, awareness and learning transfer.

Whether you are in a highly regulated industry or not, employees are increasingly finding themselves having to digest so many organizational and governmental rules and regulations that it's like drinking out of a fire hose, leaving employees overwhelmed and disinterested and the organization exposed. And this information is too important to risk having it ignored. SCC can help you get more out of your ethics and compliance training investment by bringing these critical subjects to life for your employees.

Humor is a great technique to set context, draw employees in and then lead them to learning solutions. Our roots are in improvisation and comedy, however, our success comes from our experience in creating engaging content, which doesn't have to be funny, but needs to connect. Our approach draws on key principles that work for Second City, on its stages and in its work with over 400 corporate clients each year:

• Dialogues beat monologues — don't push content out at people when you can have your audience co-create it with you.
• Things are only funny when they're true — use humor judiciously to ask tough questions that allow people to dialogue about their job and the situations they face; that's what will make these programs engaging.

SCC is a creative, collaborative partner that works with you to bring the ethics/compliance conversation to the forefront, create open, honest dialogue, and bring new relevancy to the subject matter.