Mastering Your Ethical Intelligence

Overview:

In the past decade, the world has changed. The moral fabric of society has rapidly swung from cancel culture to a general degradation of social civility. These shift in values and behaviors surrounds us in everyday events. Navigating safe passage through daily personal and professional life relies heavily on your ethical judgement. In an age of social media and a discerning general public, everyone now has a say in judging your actions, behaviors, and decisions.  In this course, we are going to tackle the challenge of elevating our ethical intelligence.  Ethical intelligence is a principled approach to living our personal and professional lives to ensure we minimize personal risk and positively interact with the world around us.  In this updated version of the course, you will see how small indiscretions get magnified and can derail otherwise good people with no il intentions and jeopardize their careers and personal lives.  

Learning Objectives:

Upon completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the state of ethics in the world today
• Compare perspectives on the origin of our ethics and how ethical decisions are made
• Analyze everyday living using the five principles of ethical intelligence
• Identify common scenarios that give rise to ethical decay and elevate the risk of doing something inappropriate
• Explore the impact of organizational culture on ethics
• Design organizational culture to cultivate stronger ethics in employees

Who Will Benefit: 

CPAs, accountants and other professionals who want to build on their personal and organizational ethical intelligence.