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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…
Having a right and doing what’s right are not the same, right? I recently read this statement, and it got me thinking. Just because one has the right, doesn’t mean that that right is “right.” When can one’s right be? Just because one has the right to do or say pretty much one…
In an article written by Christine Comaford in a recent Forbes magazine, titles: “63% of Employees Don’t Trust Their Leader— and What you can do to Change that.” Here are her four emotional experiences that cause the lack of trust problems. 1.The sense of injustice. 2. Lack of Hope. 3. Lack of confidence. 4. The…
What are specific ethical behaviors that are required of all levels of leadership? What are the consequences if leaders don’t behave ethically? If none, why not? What are the situations that leaders encounter at work that could lead them into a grey area? Is training provided to deal with those situations? How should grey…
Is your focus on leadership/ethics training on knowledge or wisdom? There is a difference. This difference can be described as knowledge is the “stuff” and wisdom is what you do with it! “Stuff” is everywhere, i.e. Social media, books, the internet, news, etc. but where is the process of what to do with…
Research has shown that the vast majority of companies’ ethics hotlines are not utilized effectively by employees due to fear of retaliation. Why is that? What is the process of following up with a complaint? What scares one’s people from doing so? When it comes right down to it, shouldn’t organizations want its people…
This past week the article, Why Leaders Lose their Way by Bill George crossed my desk and caused me to reflect more deeply on the concept of values-based leadership among his three reasons. Bill George wrote: “Leaders need to devote themselves to personal development that cultivates their inner compass or True North. This requires…
I believe that ethics can only be proactive. There is no such thing as reactive ethics. Reactive ethics really compliance, and compliance, by the very word, is truly a reactive dynamic. To embrace ethics as proactive, please consider these reflections as a foundation for ethics training. Ethics needs to focus on action and not…
An ethical dilemma is a conflict situation in which what’s “right” isn’t always clear cut or obvious. Therefore here’s a process to consider in resolving an ethical dilemma. 1. The leader attempts to clarify any ambiguous facts in the dilemma. 2. The leader encourages a broad reaction to the dilemma by asking open –ended questions…
I can’t tell you the number of articles I’ve read and studies that are now out, that state, in any number of ways, how crucial ethical leadership is in the business world. So what are organizations/companies doing about their leaders’ ethics education and promoting it in their organizations? For example, when people are promoted…
