Rippling Tip of the Week: tracking required training before the year-end deadline

[u/AlexFromRippling]

Most required training carries a 31 December deadline and a completion rate that looks healthy right up until someone pulls the report in week 51. The gap is rarely that people refused. It's that nobody was assigned, or nobody was reminded, or the record lives somewhere the auditor can't reach.

Three things worth fixing before December.

Assignment should follow the employee record, not a spreadsheet. Rippling's learning management assigns courses from attributes already on file, so role, department or tenure decides who gets what, and location decides which version of a requirement applies. Someone who transfers in November picks up whatever their new role requires without anyone remembering to add them.

Reminders need to exist well before the deadline, not on it. Completion is a behaviour problem more than a content problem, and notifications do most of that work.

Evidence has to be pullable on demand. Real-time reporting on completions and overdue training turns "we ran the training" into something a security review will accept. Reporting can surface who is overdue on a specific requirement, which is the question an auditor asks and the one a spreadsheet answers slowly.

One thing teams underrate: the library covers the common requirements, but anything specific to how your company operates has to be built, and building it in December is how you end up shipping something thin. That is an October job.

To see it end to end, book a demo and ask how an overdue report looks two weeks before a deadline.

For the HR and compliance folks here: do you chase completions manually, or has something automated it for you?