806: A Masterclass in Ethics for Human Resources = Beginning Your HR Journey in Ethics and Critical Thinking
You’re on a pedestal in HR. In challenging times, Human Resources professionals are held to a higher standard. Keeping your ethical skills sharpened is crucial as you solve tough decisions in real time, and this fast-paced session will help you practice exactly that.
Ethics is a genuinely human function – based on caring that the outcome for others is best for them and that the result is the best for your organization. As Rush Kidder said, “Ethics is not blind impartiality, doling out right and wrong according to some stone-cold canon of ancient and immutable law. It’s a warm and supremely human activity that cares enough for others to want the right to prevail. “ The HR challenge that this master class focuses on is the balance of fairness and consistency. Learn and practice how to walk that fine ethical line with meaningful case studies and reference materials to help guide your HR path.
Learning Objectives:
- Use courage properly in “The Decisive Moment” when deadlines and difficult decisions collide, even when it means standing up for and communicating challenging situations with your coworkers or boss.
- Apply critical thinking skills under tight time frames and high standards.
- Determine when to turn a teammate's off-target decision into a teaching moment rather than a more difficult personal situation.
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.
