How can you improve your ethics training in 2017?

                       How can you improve your ethics training in 2017?

Here’s a checklist to help you evaluate how your ethics training is going so far this year to help you evaluate your ethics training for the rest of 2017. I ask these questions, in particular, when evaluating the how I might be able help an organization.

Consider these ten questions as part of your regular ethics training evaluation.

1. Is there ethics training for employees on all levels?
2. How is the process of thinking ethically being implemented?
3. How does your organization consistently communicate its commitment to ethics to its employees?
4. What are your evaluation standards to discern your ethics training effectiveness?
5. Are the differences and likenesses between compliance training and ethics training clearly delineated and understood?
6. Is the approach to ethics training one of continual analysis, updating, and pertinent to the workplace?
7. Are employees encouraged to question authority when asked to do something they consider wrong?
8. Is your ethics hotline work, i.e. do people use it? Is it an internal hotline or a contracted out hotline?
9. How is unethical behavior handled? Immediate? If not, why not?
10. How is ethical behavior rewarded? If not, why not?

As you ponder your answers to these and other questions that may arise,  which ones do you think people “choke on?’ What are your ethics training opportunities that you should be thinking about implementing? When?

                       How can you improve your ethics training in 2017?

Here’s a checklist to help you evaluate how your ethics training is going so far this year to help you evaluate your ethics training for the rest of 2017. I ask these questions, in particular, when evaluating the how I might be able help an organization.

Consider these ten questions as part of your regular ethics training evaluation.

1. Is there ethics training for employees on all levels?
2. How is the process of thinking ethically being implemented?
3. How does your organization consistently communicate its commitment to ethics to its employees?
4. What are your evaluation standards to discern your ethics training effectiveness?
5. Are the differences and likenesses between compliance training and ethics training clearly delineated and understood?
6. Is the approach to ethics training one of continual analysis, updating, and pertinent to the workplace?
7. Are employees encouraged to question authority when asked to do something they consider wrong?
8. Is your ethics hotline work, i.e. do people use it? Is it an internal hotline or a contracted out hotline?
9. How is unethical behavior handled? Immediate? If not, why not?
10. How is ethical behavior rewarded? If not, why not?

As you ponder your answers to these and other questions that may arise,  which ones do you think people “choke on?’ What are your ethics training opportunities that you should be thinking about implementing? When?

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Like you, business ethics and ethical leadership expert, Frank Bucaro has seen the challenges and problems of corporate leadership, particularly over the past few years in regards to poor decision-making, SEC violations, and record breaking financial settlements in a number of different industries. With over two decades of executive training, speaking, writing and with real life experiences, his view and approach to ethics in the workplace is uniquely different. He emphasizes that ethics is a moment-to-moment choice and has little to do with position, titles, personalities or education. Ethics is everybody’s responsibility from the top down. His goal is to help organizations to: a. Strengthen their ethics training initiatives in order to significantly decrease the odds of an ethical/compliance violation. b. Energize, train and motivate employees to understand the value of consistent “high road” behavior as a business advantage. c. Support individuals and thereby the organization by contributing to its success by quality, ongoing values based leadership development. Frank is known for his very practical, slightly irreverent, yet somewhat humorous approach to ethics and leadership development. His conversational style and real life stories connect with his audience in a personal, intense and practical level. Companies such as Bayer Healthcare, BP, ReMax International, EnMax Energy, Danone, etc. have partnered with Frank when they want to proactively stress the message, tools, insights and practical applications that good ethics IS good for business!