Programmes that only send fake email are measuring machines. Programmes that follow up are teaching machines. This page covers the five-minute rule, who gets what after a round, and how to read progress across quarters without fooling yourself.
Ask what a simulation programme produces and the honest answer is not a click rate - it is a change in behaviour over time. That change is manufactured in the follow-up, and it is only visible in the trend. Both halves are cheap; skipping either one quietly wastes the whole exercise.
The follow-up module lands within days of the click, while the embarrassment and the lesson are still warm, and it takes about five minutes - the exact checks that this round's email tested, shown on that email. Long annual courses do not change behaviour; short, immediate, specific lessons do. Completion is tracked like any training, kindly and without drama, and the module ends by rehearsing the report button one more time.
Chart two lines per quarter, at a steady difficulty class: clicked rate and reported rate. Expect noise - a holiday month, a harder scenario, a new department joining. One round proves nothing in either direction; four rounds tell the truth. The healthy signature is unglamorous: clicks drifting down, reports drifting up. If clicks refuse to move, change the teaching before blaming the staff - check difficulty, mail volume per role, and whether the report route is genuinely one click, because a hard-to-report culture hides inside a bad click rate.
Retire templates everyone now passes, raise difficulty one notch for groups that ace their rounds, rotate the scenario families so the office practises range rather than one trick, and re-read the ethical rules with HR once a year - the excluded cruel lures, the no-password rule, the aggregate reporting. Programmes stay welcome in a company exactly as long as they stay visibly fair; the annual review is how you keep that true on paper as well as in spirit.
Watch the video run a full campaign cycle - build, send and review - from start to finish.
▶️ Watch Full VideoThe landing page teaches instantly at the click. The follow-up module should land within a few days, while the memory is fresh - a module that arrives a month later is homework, not feedback.
Not necessarily. Check difficulty creep, how much mail each role handles, and whether reporting is genuinely easy before concluding anything about people. Often the fix is a simpler report route or a fairer template - not more pressure.
Yes, in aggregate. A visible, improving trend is the programme's best advertisement - it shows the training working, thanks the reporters by implication, and makes the next round feel like a team sport instead of an inspection.