Ethics in Action

What makes any given decision an ethical decision?

The problem with ethics is that what may seem morally right (or ethical) to one person may seem inappropriate to another. The reality of ethical leadership is that it is never about intent and always about behavior.

In today's business climate of heightened sensitivity to corporate wrongdoing, Ethical Leadership is the right focus to pursue as a worthwhile business strategy. It can safeguard your organization from making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Ethics in Leadership

A Leadership Team may be sincerely committed to fostering an ethics-based culture. But awareness alone will not be sufficient to instill ethical behavior and practices across the organization. It requires consistent and conscious effort to imbed an ethical perspective into day-to-day leadership and management behaviors.

Workshop Objectives

This workshop will define a framework to make solving ethical dilemmas easier. This workshop will not provide an easy way to solve every ethical decision.

The primary objective of the workshop is to improve your organization's ability to confront 2 key types of ethics challenges:

1. Compliance Ethics - The black and white legal issues that - when violated - make newspaper headlines:

• Bribery
• Stealing
• Harassment

2. Interpersonal Ethics - These are the issues that determine how we work together and treat each other. These are not necessarily illegal but are the types of things you wouldn't want your family to see engage in:

• Abusive behavior
• Lying to Employees
• Putting one's interests ahead of the organization

The majority of leaders fully intend to live up to ethics standards, but their good intentions cannot fully overcome old behavioral patterns and habits. To “walk the talk” leaders at all levels must practice new ethical behaviors and they become comfortable utilizing these behaviors to lead.

Participants Will Learn To:

• Understand the value of ethical leadership
• Understand the difference between compliance ethics and interpersonal ethics
• Identify ethical challenges and opportunities in their day-to-day leadership role
• Identify their values and interpersonal ethics behavior
• Learn ways to handle ethics dilemmas through “mini-cases” based on real-work situations
• Identify ways to improve Ethics in Action for the organization
• Understand their ethical responsibilities as leaders
• Know what is required to start developing a code of ethics for the organization
• Acquire tools to help you make better decisions

1-Day Workshop Topics:

• The definitions of Compliance Ethics and Interpersonal Ethics
• Practical self-assessment identifying how you demonstrate your values and ethics through on-the-job behaviors
• Applying ethics in core decision-making processes to help leaders identify real-work ethical dilemmas and effectively lead the organization through them
• Tools specific to ethical decision-making and leadership
• Ethics dilemmas with co-workers, supervisors, clients, and company policies
• Mini-case studies illustrating ethics dilemmas with co-workers, supervisors, clients, and company policies
• How to recover from ethics mistakes
• How to foster and integrate ethical behavior into the “DNA” of your work group and organization