Ethics training and workshops

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Employee Ethics Training

Quality ethics training is an effective way to increase employees’ awareness, knowledge and understanding of workplace ethics and to build a better understanding of their ethical roles and responsibilities. The optimal aim is to strengthen or improve ethical behaviour as an essential foundation for building and maintaining an ethical culture.

As such, we encourage organisations to include ethics as part of their induction programme for all new employees, and to conduct at least one ethics programme for all employees each year.

Training is always designed to be as interactive as possible, and typically includes video case studies, workplace case studies, exercises and small group discussions to make the workshops interesting and engaging – which also enhances learning and understanding.

Ethics workshops and training are almost always customised based on the client’s needs. Training can be delivered in-person or online and typically ranges from ½ day to 2 days.

Leadership Ethics Conversations

A recommended training approach for Board members and senior executives to build a cohort of strong ethical leaders is to do so via Leadership Ethics Conversations. This is a facilitated process centred on key topics and issues that, as the name implies, focuses less on training and more on a conversation that combines the leaders’ views and experiences with best practice theory and practical examples.

Leadership Ethics Conversations are effective both as regards enhancing leaders’ knowledge and understanding of workplace ethics and its strategic implications, and at building a strong, common ethical foundation among the organisation’s leadership.

Conducting these as a series over a period of time – as opposed to one intervention – has the advantage of allowing the leaders time to reflect on the discussions, which embeds learning more effectively.

The sessions are optimally conducted in-person, although they can be done in a hybrid format or online if necessary.

Customised online training

We also offer customised online ethics training programmes, for example, as induction programmes for new employees and as revision programmes which re-visit and reinforce the organisation’s ethics policy, value statement, code of conduct and supporting policies.

Training Topics

Topics are tailored to suit the organisation’s needs and development focus. Most of our talks can be also presented as a workshop (refer Talks and Presentations). Topics include the following:

• The imperative for ethical leadership
• The top ethics trends and their implications in the workplace
• Ethics is everyone’s responsibility
• Does ethics make good business sense?
• Ethics: an essential ingredient in effective fraud control
• Personal ethics and choosing to be ethical
• A strategic framework for effective ethics management
• Ethical decision-making and ethical dilemmas
• Promoting a workplace culture that values and upholds ethics
• Are honesty and integrity non-negotiable, negotiable, conditional or just a nice-to-have?
• Ethics = ethical capital. True? False? Don’t know?
• Workplace ethics: fault lines and tipping points
• Managing ethics: a practical approach to improving ethics in the workplace
• Ethics, the new fault-line of leadership