LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES: ETHICS, VALUES, CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

Description:
This program entails a broad understanding of the ethical, cultural, and value-based environments in which organizations operate. It builds a strong foundation for understanding and respect for alternative ethical frameworks, legal and regulatory systems, cultural diversity, and the role of values in shaping leadership style and organizational behavior and performance. Program goals include helping participants recognize the nature of diverse ethical, legal, and value systems as they impact organizations and the role of the leader in terms of influencing them. The program will also review concepts with respect to developing and implementing an ethical and values-based culture within an organizational context and expose the participants to the relativity and diversity of culture, both from a global and organizational framework. Lastly, the program will examine the nature and dynamics of human diversity and the role of the leader in stimulating and building upon that diversity for organizational effectiveness.

How You Will Benefit:
Participants will be able to:

1. Identify the and evaluate the sources and kinds of ethical dilemmas leaders face.
2. Be able to use a principle-centered and values-based approach in making ethically-challenged decisions and solving organizational problems that do not have easy solutions.
3. Compare and contrast cultural differences and diversity and identify ways to build upon those differences and diversity to improve organizational effectiveness.
4. Assess their organization’s culture and profile through use of the “Organizational Description Questionnaire (ODQ)” and develop a plan for influencing that culture for improvements.
5. Use the “full-spectrum” model of thinking and problem solving and how it can be applied for a more creative approach in solving problems and making decisions.
6. Assess their own thinking/brain dominance profiles and learn strategies for helping those with diverse backgrounds and interests pull together, share talents and abilities, and participate more openly and creatively.
7. Practice using program insights in behavioral simulation activities.
8. Develop an action plan for applying course insights to their own personal and organizational contexts.

Program Schedule:
Day One:
Ethics and Leadership Responsibility: How To Resolve Ethical Problems
+The nature of leadership ethics
+The legal and regulatory environment of organizations
+Perceiving and analyzing ethical problems
+Principle-centered leadership
+Ethical guidelines for decision making
+Organizational principles and guidelines

Day Two:
Leading by Values: Visionary Leadership Skills
+The MBV process
+Clarifying and communicating mission and values
+Aligning values
+Culture and Diversity
+The nature and dynamics of culture and diversity within a global context
+Organizational culture
+The “ODQ” – Assessing your organization’s culture
+Links with the transformational leadership model
+Developing a plan for influencing organizational culture

Day Three:
A Full Spectrum Model of Leadership, Critical Thinking and Analysis
+Traditional mental models and analytical techniques
+Simulation Exercise: assessing individual and group mental preferences and profiles
+Case studies
+Feedback results on your own brain dominance/thinking style profile
+Composite - Group Profile

Diversity and Whole Brain Technology as a Solution to Today's Organizational Problems
+The “Whole-Brain” model
+Approaches and styles of leadership and team work
+Developing your own style for enhanced personal performance
+How to work effectively with diversity of individuals and thinking styles to stimulate involvement
+Strategies for developing and maintaining an environment with high levels of involvement, creativity and innovation
+Leading and facilitating personal and organizational change
+Simulation exercise