Train the trainer programs ethics training

A “Train the Trainers” workshop is for appropriately qualified personnel to assist with ethics workshop roll out and/or build appropriate expertise within the organisation. This module includes:

A one day training session focusing on facilitation skills using appropriate workplace dilemmas and case studies
A facilitator’s guide – a step by step guide to planning and leading an ethics workshop
Practical ideas for implementing the training program including a guide on what to consider in customising materials for specific purposes such as:

induction programs

management retreats

performance appraisals

coaching sessions

Typically workshops are designed to:

Differentiate between morals, ethics and legal accountability’s
Make the connection between organisational values and organisational ethical accountability’s
Promote a shared understanding of the current ethical issues and how these can be addressed
Assist participants to better understand the macro context of social changes and the resulting new expectations of organisational members
Skill trainers in facilitation in business ethics and role modelling
Provide tips on how to engage employees in any ethics initiatives

FIELD EXPERIENCE

Energy Utility:

Here we designed and facilitated a Manager of Managers ethics training program designed to skill managers to cascade ethics learning to their teams. This program involved:

the design of a facilitator’s guide
the development of an ethical decision making model for all employees
train the trainer workshops
a dilemmas bank of issues for managers to work with their people
supporting e learning materials

FMCG:

Development of a facilitators training course for the middle management level of an FMCG company

INSURANCE COMPANY:

Facilitation of Ethics training nationally

NATIONAL RETAIL ORGANISATION:

Ethics workshops for their top 700 managers

MARTIME SERVICES AUTHORITY:

Ethics training for all their managers and employees

GRADUATE INTAKE PROGRAMS IN BUSINESS ETHICS & VALUES

We have designed several engaging and practical business ethics and values module for financial sector graduate intake programs. Often these modules are developed in conjunction with the organisation’s leadership competency model and their focus is:

Learning Objectives

To educate new recruits in the broad field of business ethics and governance and its relevance to their day to day workplace decisions and activities
To locate business ethics within the wider realm of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and modern day governance accountability’s
To develop participant skills in identifying possible ethical challenges in the workplace and how to apply ethical problem solving models to resolve these
To assist new recruits to identify their personal ethical accountability’s
To develop skills in raising ethical issues within an organizational context

Learning Outcomes

Heightened understanding of the broad arena of business ethics today and its relationship to an organisation’s reputation and its social and legal license to operate
Heightened understanding of the boundaries between organizational and personal values and the reasons why organisations and professions develop codes of ethics and value statements
A richer understanding of what is expected in meeting the principles and values of the organisation’s Codes of Ethics and Conduct

The Learning Module/Package

The principles used throughout this module are adult learning principles and we incorporate experiential learning opportunities. Our experience is that ethics in a 21st Century context cannot be taught as an academic subject. Students need to work with ‘real world’ scenarios and be able to contextualize their own meaning making by working through their own responses. We use a viewpoints framework to promote multiple perspectives and then assist participants to understand the consequences of their chosen actions on different organisational stakeholders.

These consequences are measured in both social and financial terms and participants learn the consequences of their choices in terms of building or losing their employer’s economic and social capital.

Through these exercises personal accountability’s are highlighted as well as a collective understanding of how fragile a company’s reputation is in the modern business world and their responsibility in safeguarding public trust in the organisation.