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Description
This course explores the tangled paths to ethical problems. It is designed to sensitize you to the subtle traps and to suggest strategies to avoid or extricate yourself from them.
What was he thinking? Have you ever wondered that in the wake of an ethical breech by a previously respected person often, the unethical action is hard to believe much less explain because the conditions that contribute to unethical behavior are far from clear. These subtle factors are the "danger zones" that ethical practitioners – and especially leaders – need to recognize in themselves, their firms and their clients. This course explores the tangled paths to ethical problems. It is designed to sensitize you to the subtle traps and to suggest strategies to avoid or extricate yourself from them – whether they are internal, cultural, organizational or societal.
Please note, this course contains an assessment component. Learners are permitted multiple attempts to complete the course assessment with a passing grade.
Key Topics:
- The Amygdala Made Me Do It": Adventures Along the Brain's Low Road
- That's Not the Way We Do It Here": Classic Cultural Pitfalls
- How Do You Know That": The Assumption Trap
- Fear, Confusion, Hesitation and Surprise": The Four Poisons of the Mind
- Step by Step into the Big Muddy: The Vietnam Syndrome
- Paving the Path to Hell: Unintended Consequences
- "This Phone Call Never Happened": Confidentiality and Secrecy
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define ethics.
- Recognize the factors that are the catalyst for unethical behavior and identify strategies to avoid them.
- Recognize the power of purpose in ethical decision-making.
Who Will Benefit
Anyone who might wrestle with ethical issues, especially anyone in a leadership role.
Disclaimer
The views expressed in the course are non-authoritative and have not been formally endorsed by CPA Ontario and do not reflect the views of CPA Ontario. The information included in the course is for general information purposes only.
CPA Ontario, the presenters and the authors do not accept any responsibility or liability that might occur directly or indirectly as a consequence of the use or application of or reliance on this material.
Most of CPA Ontario's 450+ on-demand courses are compatible with the mobile app. Unfortunately, this on demand course is not compatible. For the best learning experience, we suggest you use your computer.
How to Access the Course
This is an online session. This course is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Once registered, you can access the material at any time.
However, you will only have access to the course for 90 days after REGISTRATION.
To access the course please visit our BlackBoard site, and log-in using the same login and password used for the Registration Portal. Please allow up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear on your BlackBoard page.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Greg Conderacci is a BLI Senior Fellow, consultant, and faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he teaches marketing. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, he has not only covered major changes, he has lived them as well. He has held leadership positions during mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, layoffs and rapid growth periods in both for-profit and non-profit organizations. As author of Getting UP! Supercharging Your Energy, he has researched and written extensively about personal energy’s impact on careers and organizations. He is a sought-after adviser for communication issues and personal and corporate change management.