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Tackling Specific Challenges

• Trouble-shooting specific ethical problems, issues, & challenges

When you face a difficult ethical dilemma or problem and could use a sympathetic, careful listener and organizational ethics expert to assist your research, analysis, and strategizing.

• Networking and teaming to address specific issues and areas

When you need specific expertise on company ethics AND technology strategy and implementation. . . marketing . . . Sarbanes-Oxley compliance . . . financial systems . . . human resources . . . diversity . . . meeting and communication . . . and other topics. We can bring in a team that includes the specialized expertise you need . . . or simply link you to other resources.

• Presentations and speeches at company-wide gatherings
  
  When you want to rally the troops toward higher performance and improved ethics.
  We will work with you on the topic and title that best meet your needs.
  
  Past topics include
  “Ethics is About Excellence---Not Just About Staying Out of Jail”
  “Twelve Good Reasons to Run Our Company in an Ethical Manner”
  “Ten Principles of Highly Ethical People”
  "Trust Needs Trustworthy”
  “’The Market Made Me Do It’---and Other Lame Excuses for Cutting Ethical Corners”
  “Ten Traits of Ethically-Healthy Organizational Cultures”

• Ethical decision-making workshops for executives and employees at all levels
  
  From 2 to 6 hours:  interactive learning and practice sessions to upgrade ethical decision-making skills for employees at any and all levels.
   
• Executive retreats on values and ethics
  
  From one hour to one day (or a multi-session program): get your leadership, your board, and your management
  team together to bring everyone up to the next level on ethics and excellence.
  

• Executive coaching and support for more effective ethical leadership at the top
  
   “Tone at the top” keeps coming up in explanations of corporate ethical performance.
  Individualized coaching, mentoring, and learning to bring you up to speed on the terminology, the ideas, the options, the strategies, the most important literature, the best and worst practices of industry competitors, etc.. Have your own personal ethics professor and coach.

• Mission, vision, core values, and ethical guidelines: project leadership
  to help organizations discover & articulate it in a holistic, authentic, aligned manner
  
  It’s a mouthful to put it this way but we’re talking about a proactive, organizational development approach instead of the old “patch and repair,” damage control, emergency approach to ethics and values.

• Ethics and values communication and training: creation of programs
  both face-to-face and on-line; creation of multi-year ethics and
  values strategies
  
  It’s not enough to have a fine statement of ethics and values (Enron and Arthur Andersen both had them).  These things need to be communicated effectively in ways that are customized foryour particular situation (don’t bet it all on the machine-like, one-size-fits-all approaches of the big corporate consulting boys).  Let us show you what we’ve done with other companies.

• Ethics and values audits and evaluations of employees, leaders, and the organization as a whole customized and implemented for your context       
  We are simply fooling ourselves if we don’t put in place an ethics auditing/assessment process that goes two ways.  First: we need to make ethics and values part of the evaluation of every employee’s performance, from the CEO down;  Second: we need to invite everyone in the company to give their own candid opinion of how the company and its leaders are doing on  compliance and ethics.  If we are not walking the talk, better to hear now when we can improve than to wait until after the chickens come home to roost in our company and career.