Professional Ethics:

A Preventive Maintenance Approach

Goal: Provide Human Resource professionals with immediately applicable ideas and tools to recognize often unseen or ignored risks for professional ethics difficulties in themselves as well as their colleagues, co-workers, and organizations.The emphasis will be on helping attendees learn how to develop and implement strategies to prevent ethics problems before they occur rather than – as is more typically done in most organizations – paying the price for catching problems after they have already occurred.

Outcomes:Participants in this session will be able to

  1. identify at least four common but often unseen or ignored ‘red flags’ for ethics risks in themselves and others.
  2. identify a minimum of two previously unseen personal risk factors for ethics lapses, and be able to reduce the potential negative impact of those risks.
  3. articulate both the strategic and financial value of developing and maintaining effective ethics and values training for all employees.

Outline:

  1. Introduction that provides a clear and easily applied set of definitions for ethics and values while delineating the differences between ethics and rules (e.g. why ethical behavior requires far more than simply following the rules, etc.).
  2. Delivery of a body of information outlining typical ethics risks which often go unseen or ignored, the values most likely to encourage ethical behavior, and easy methods for monitoring of personal and organizational ethics risks.

Methodology:

  1. The body of knowledge is delivered in presentation format, including intermittent verbal interaction with the audience.
  2. The presenter is both animated and engaging, makingextensive use of props, visual learning aids, and interactive activities to keep the audience fully engaged and actively involved in their learning process.
  3. The tone of the workshop is conversational, the style interactive, and the primary focus is on ‘real-world’ applications. These combine to increase the likelihood of attendees having a simultaneously enjoyable, personally meaningful, and practical experience with an essential topic (professional ethics) that many HR professionals presume to be dry, academic, and difficult to apply in a personally meaningful manner.