Try not training for Ethic$! That is where the large dollar$ come into play.
With each corporate or government scandal come more cries for oversight and transparency. The only way to make these values become a reality is to hold companies and individuals responsible for misconduct and violation of laws. Continue reading ‘Think Ethic$ Training is Expen$ive?’ »
Reminisce for a moment back to childhood when your school class took field trips to interesting places in the city or region. Weren’t we all assigned a “buddy” to sit with on the bus and to keep each other safely inside the group? If the headcount didn’t add up as the bus was loaded up for the return trip to school, your buddy was responsible for knowing if you had slipped off to the restroom or had been eaten by lions and tigers and bears. Oh my!
Well, fast forward many years and this buddy system is still a good idea. Often I meet with people who are in job or career transition. And what a scary and lonely world that can be! Continue reading ‘Remember the Buddy System?’ »
The Warning Signs for Unethical Behavior come in many flavors. Be on the watch out for any of these four signs of unethical behavior, before one can take down your organization.
Here are the Four Warning Signs of Unethical Behavior…
Here is a Reminder of the impact Ethics has upon your organization…
Ethics: “Out of sight, out of mind. Out of mind, out of importance. Out of importance, out of practice. Out of practice…OUT OF BUSINESS!”
1. Talk about ethics and ethical behavior and keep it alive.
Regularly communicate and discuss your organization’s shared values, principles, and standards. Make sure everyone buys in and supports ethical behavior.
2. Hold people accountable!
Zero tolerance Continue reading ‘Eight Steps to Making Ethics Work’ »
In how many ways can we refer to ethics? Keeping ethics in the forefront of our lives and businesses does help keep it alive. And keeping ethics alive in today’s times is both important and noble. How many Ponzi schemes have been uncovered in the last few years? Worse still, how many have yet to be uncovered? How often can regulators turn their heads away from irregular transactions and unethical behavior before our financial ecosystem completely collapses?
Let’s take a look at some of the words associated with ethics: Continue reading ‘Ethics and 6 Words You Need to Know’ »
Leadership truly is modeled from the top down. As Leo Buscaglia says, “It is not possible for you to influence others to live on a higher level than that on which you live yourself.”
Business owners, entrepreneurs, leaders, and managers all live in the same type of house. This house is made of glass. Because most people enjoy knowing people with whom they associate success, your employees and the general public often study people in positions of power. This study is carried out by simple observation.
We’ve often heard the saying “little pitchers have big ears.” While this old saying was aimed at children overhearing and repeating the words and actions of adults, it also serves as a reminder that the people who are being served by less than ethical leadership in the public and private sectors of business are also watching the way their leaders carry out their duties.
Ask yourself:
Remember, there really is no softer pillow than a clean conscience!
Employees are a company’s greatest asset. And this is not a cliché! The best companies know this to be a tried and true philosophy. How are the best companies planning now for the incremental turnaround in the economy? Chances are that these companies never lost sight of their strongest asset…their employees. Continue reading ‘Best Practices for Human Resources’ »
In our last blog we talked about work being about both Daily Bread and Daily Purpose. This submission is more specifically about the higher meaning of work.
As you contemplate the questions from the previous blog, begin to think about these additional questions:
Work has been said to provide us with both our daily bread and our daily purpose. Work consumes a large part of our waking hours; therefore, it is important that we evaluate from time to time how we spend this large portion of our lives.
In a survey conducted several years ago by the Wilson Learning Corporation, 1500 people were asked, “If you had enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life, would you continue to work?” More than two-thirds of respondents (70 percent) said they would continue to work, but 60 percent of those said they would change jobs and seek more satisfying work. Continue reading ‘Work gives us Our Daily Bread and our Daily Purpose’ »
Recently I read about a plant that is commonly known as the “sensitive plant”. The scientific name for the plant is Mimosa piduca. When the plant experiences human touch it actually quivers and closes its leaves. You can Google the plant name and watch amazing videos of this strange phenomenon. Another strange reaction of this plant is that the more often it is touched, the more desensitized the plant becomes to human touch. In other words, the more often it is touched, the less responsive the plant is to human touch, and the less likely it is to “blush.”
Have our business ethics become the same? As a nation, have we become so desensitized to corruption and wrongdoing that we can no longer “blush” and pull away from unethical business practices and people who are doing business outside of integrity? Many times actions that would have caused upheaval in the past have now become mainstream. Continue reading ‘Are We Desensitized to Ethical Business?’ »
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