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Employee Training 

is Key to GDPR 

Compliance:  

GDPR 

 


 
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The compliance with GDPR 

rules and regulation that help 

and assist businesses to 

secure the personal data and 

privacy of the clients for 

transactions that occur within 

EU member states. A non-

compliance could cost 

companies heavy penalties up 

to 20 million euros or four percent of an enterprise’s worldwide 

revenue, whichever is larger. This is the main reason for every 

company that does business who deals with personal information 

needs to know about GDPR.  

 

A larger number of employees are unaware of GDPR even if the 

owners know about it. They don’t know how this will impact their 

jobs and how to implement it into the business or what they will be 

doing differently. So it is really important to train your staff to secure 

the personal data and to gain customer trust.  

 

Employees in different sectors in an organization have different 

responsibilities to secure the individual data. Mainly the employees 

in the marketing sector have to be more careful while collecting the 

personal information from their clients. All the employees should 

have the basic knowledge in GDPR and how to implement it in their 

sector.  

 

GDPR training is fundamentally about data protection. This training 

will help your employees to implement an advanced protection to 

the data protection policies which already exist in your organization. 

Organizations can help their employees comply with the new 

regulation and protect against breaches by developing a 

comprehensive communication and training strategy. 

 


 
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3 steps for successful GDPR staff awareness training in an 

organisation:  

 

1. Identify key areas that your organisation needs to 

improve 

Identify the targeted staff awareness initiatives that address key 

business objectives. These objectives should drive your awareness 

programme and will help to engage your employees. 

 

2. Use engaging training materials 

Engaging your employee and to increase the concentration is really 

important while providing the training. Use interesting training 

methods like games or engaging study materials.  

 

3. Conduct staff training at regular intervals 

A staff awareness programme should be an ongoing process which 

should be conducted regularly throughout the year and/or whenever 

staff-related data protection incidents occur.  

 

Mishandle the customers’ personal data by mistake or fall victim to 

a cyber attack even by a single employee can result in a data 

breach. There are many organisations which provide staff training in 

GDPR. Check all your employees have an affiliated certificate in 

GDPR awareness, and always update to the GDPR regulations 

without any fail. The GDPR may be updated to deal with additional 

technological changes. Over time, old employees may slip back into 

bad habits.