Ethics with a Dash of Courage - Making Tough HR Decisions
REPEATED FROM MONDAY AT 3:30pm
Making Tough Decisions in a Fast Paced World. Getting ethics right is a big deal, and ethics often requires courage. Human Resources practitioners are often standing alone in confronting tough situations. This facilitated discussion goes beyond a lecture on ethical principles - it is a series of case studies that offer participants 'real time' practice in resolving dilemmas, with participants sharpening their critical thinking skills. Ethics is a truly human function - based on you caring that the outcome for others is best for them, and that the net result is the best for you. After all, ethics is not blind impartiality, doling out right and wrong according to some canon of ancient law. It's a warm and supremely human activity that cares enough for others to want right to prevail. This session will reduce the fear level in HR practitioners and enable better decisions.
Learning Objectives:
- The new world of Critical Thinking and Ethics under COVID pressure.
- Resolving Ethical Dilemmas under pressure.
- Kidder's nine steps for decision-making, a logical pattern that applies to our current situation.
- How to make sense of the most relevant data in a situation.
- How to use advanced adult learning methods to transfer wisdom and change behaviors.
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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.