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The practice of integrity is essentially a skill in decision-making: that is, balancing competing duties, not simply complying with a single clear duty. Without a method to identify and resolve complex and competing duties--especially when there is no code directing you--acting ethically is impossible.

Most people think they "have integrity" and that breaches of integrity are caused by others who don't "have" it. The startling reality is that integrity is not intuitive nor is it accessible without practice. We regard integrity as a skill that can be taught and practiced. It is not an innate talent that can be accessed intuitively and fulfilled willfully.

Integrity Intensive Workshops for Business

IntegrityIntensive teaches managers and business professionals how to identify and balance competing duties when no written code of conduct applies. The practice of integrity is a skill in decision-making, not just compliance and we treat that skill as an essential component of leadership.

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Participants learn how to:

‍Discern multiple and competing duties in ethical decision-making
‍Identify the hidden ways “self-interest” creeps into the identification of duty
‍Resolve conflicts among duties when there is no clear procedure or code of conduct to address the difficult situations
Develop effective strategies to communicate ethical decisions within the company.

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Benefits of workshop:

Develop working definitions of integrity
‍Promote awareness of the multiple and often competing duties confronting business leaders
‍Demonstrate how to extract self-interest from duty and learn the principles of balancing competing duties
Learn how to overcome the natural reluctance to seek guidance and ask questions on ethical matters.

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Testimonial

“The feedback from my colleagues in the business consulting community has been fantastic. This method of practicing integrity relieves business leaders from the world of compliance and opens up possibilities of managing complex duties innovatively”

- Andrea Eisenberg, Partner Preferred Placement, New York.

Integrity Intensive Workshops for Public Officials

Leadership in the public service is not simply a matter of compliance with regulations, but rather, finding a way to balance complex duties.

The practice of integrity is about choices between competing duties. That’s what we train you to do: balance duties and understand ethical decisions. Workshop training processes scenarios, deceptively simple ones at first, then gradually increasing in complexity.

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Participants learn how to:

Make decisions between seemingly equal claims of right
Honor loyalties to party leaders, contributors, and colleagues, and balance them with your fidelity to the public trust
Balance personal pressures of friends and family with public obligations
Perform your job with limited resources, public impatience, and the second-guessing of colleagues.

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Leadership in the public service is not simply a matter of compliance with regulations, but rather, finding a way to balance complex duties.

The practice of integrity is about choices between competing duties. That’s what we train you to do: balance duties and understand ethical decisions. Workshop training presents scenarios, deceptively simple ones at first, then gradually increasing in complexity.

Benefits of the workshop:

Develop working definitions of integrity
Promote awareness of the multiple and often competing interests and duties confronting political leaders
‍Demonstrate how to extract self-interest from the analysis of such interests and duties
Learn the principles of balancing competing duties

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Testimonial

“Stu presented a highly entertaining and illuminating presentation on the nature of public integrity… This was far more than a routine presentation on ethics regulations but rather a method to address tough conflicts. . . Many of the 300 attendees came up to me after the presentation to express how original, thought provoking, and most importantly, useful, they thought Mr. Brody’s presentation was”

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