Leadership for Ethical Organisations
Staff work out what an organisation really values by watching what happens, not by reading what is written. They watch which behaviour gets promoted, what happens to the top biller who cut a corner, and whether the person who raised a concern last year is still doing well. This day is for the leaders whose decisions produce those signals. It is less about ethical theory than about the specific choices that make integrity either the default or a slogan.
Programme Agenda
Tone From the Top, Examined
What the phrase means operationally rather than rhetorically. The decisions, allocations of time, and silences that communicate priority more clearly than any statement of values.
Why Good People Do the Wrong Thing
Goal pressure, incrementalism, diffusion of responsibility, and the normalisation of a practice that would not have been accepted if proposed on day one. Recognising it in your own organisation rather than in a case study.
A Usable Decision Framework
Working through an ambiguous decision when the rulebook does not settle it. Tests that are practical under time pressure, and knowing when the answer is to escalate rather than to decide.
Incentives and Unintended Consequences
Targets, commission structures, and ranking systems that reward exactly the behaviour the policy forbids. Reading your own incentive scheme for what it actually pays for.
Psychological Safety and Speaking Up
The conditions that determine whether a concern reaches you. Reaction to bad news, treatment of dissent in a meeting, and the difference between an open door and an approachable manager.
The Test Case
The high performer who breached, the long-serving employee, the client relationship that would be lost. What consistency costs, and what inconsistency costs more.
Difficult Conversations About Conduct
Raising a concern with a peer or a superior, challenging a decision without making it personal, and holding the line when the pressure to let it go is commercial rather than personal.
Leadership Commitments
Participants identify the specific practices in their own area that contradict the stated position, and commit to a small number of changes with dates attached.
Learning Outcomes:
Identify the signals your own decisions send about what is really valued
Recognise the conditions under which capable people drift into misconduct
Apply a decision framework when the rules do not resolve an ambiguous situation
Read an incentive structure for the behaviour it actually rewards
Build the conditions under which people raise concerns early
Handle a breach by a high performer consistently
Conduct a difficult conversation about conduct with a peer or superior
Commit to specific changes in your own area with a timeline
Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: Senior / Leadership
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included
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