Solving Difficult Decisions – Ethics and Critical Thinking in a “New Abnormal
As we emerge from pandemic we need to update our understanding of the role Ethics plays in the HR community, and realize the impact Integrity will have on the sustainability of our organizations. In this fast-paced session, Karl J. Ahlrichs, SHRM-SCP, SPHR offers multiple viewpoints on ethics and leadership and shares the skills you will need to maintain sustainability.
We will cover new ethical challenges and how they apply to the workplace of the near future, and advanced methods for training others in these issues. We will begin with fresh data on the metrics that really matter, which will lead us to significant ethical challenges on the horizon. All of this will be mapped on top of a brief review of some fundamental economic data and the client service framework that HR Professionals will be operating in.
Learning Objectives:
- The shifting world of ethics, metrics, and how organizational effectiveness is measured
- Trends in ethics, with evidence of what the recent focus on organizational integrity has produced
- A review of ethical standards in HR
- An understanding of where the new attitudes on Ethics and Integrity are coming from
- How to leverage advanced adult learning methods to teach Ethics and build a sustainable high performing culture.
Karl James Ahlrichs
Karl Ahlrichs specializes in helping professionals make order from chaos. He is a national speaker, author, and consultant, presenting on the people issues in all industries, and is often quoted in the local and national media.
Karl’s experience is ideally suited to times of organizational change as he pulls on risk management and organizational development theories to replace “best practices” with “next practices”. He owes much of his communications mastery to working as a writer and editor in daily media, to on-the-job writing experience and to the process of becoming a published author.
He joined Gregory & Appel in 2010 after serving as a founding partner of ExactHire, bringing his HR, operations, diversity & belonging, and learning & development skills with him. Karl’s affinity for design, composition and learning started at a very young age, by taking and examining thousands of boring pictures with the goal of improving his craft. He loves deploying that practice-to-improve approach with all manner of hobbies including writing haiku, mastering cutting-edge technology and learning Spanish.
In 2003, he was named the SHRM Human Resource Professional of the Year for the State of Indiana. He is on the Boards of several organizations, including the Maryland CPA Society. He has lived in Scotland and Spain and lives to explore new experiences with his wife and family.