Ethical Fitness® Training

The one-day Ethical Fitness® Seminar (EFS) is the nucleus of CCE's training program designed to promote ethical culture. Based on Dr. Rushworth Kidder's landmark book, How Good People Make Tough Choices (now in its second edition), the EFS has been experienced by thousands of people worldwide in a wide variety of workplace environments.

The EFS is positive, non-threatening, and highly interactive. Participants claim greater awareness of ethical issues, higher levels of decision-making confidence, and a high degree of relevance to their job responsibilities.

The learning objectives for the EFS include the following:

  • Recognizing why ethics matters—for individuals, for organizations, for the future
  • Understanding trust—what is it? What encourages it? What kills it?
  • Tasking leadership with trust—what can leaders do to create a trust environment?
  • Defining ethical values—whose values? How are they applied in the workplace?
  • Analyzing ethical dilemmas—right versus wrong? Right versus right?
  • Resolving dilemmas—which principles best apply?

The Institute for Global Ethics' (IGE) work assumes that a fundamental shared values can be discovered and applied. We presume that individuals and organizations are capable of developing what we call "Ethical Fitness®"—which, like physical fitness, keeps you in mental and moral shape to recognize and address ethical challenges.

Participants will leave our seminar with the methods and confidence required for resolving ethical challenges—equipped to confront issues that face them every day, at work and at home.

Our typical four-session seminar comprises discussions of Ethical Awareness, Values Definition, Ethical Analysis, and Dilemma Resolution, using a mixture of lectures, group discussions, and small-group exercises. All dilemmas examined during the seminar are drawn from fresh, individual experiences shared by the participants.

The Ethical Fitness® Seminar is an innovative learning process that is difficult to describe because the participants bring so much of the action and content to the Ethical Fitness® framework. Each seminar is distinguished from others and underlined by the experiences shared by the participants. However, the learning is consistent and the personal drama tends to heighten the impact of the learning.

Additional modules are available, including leadership, trust building, moral courage, and operationalizing ethical values for the workplace environment.

Please phone (800-729-2615 or e-mail us for more information.