SPRING 2015

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This fall, five members of the Institute for Global Ethics’ staff visited The Citadel to present two train-the-trainer workshops as part of a four-year campus-wide ethics initiative. These trainings were the second round of workshops IGE has presented at The Citadel; the first, in 2012, certified over 25 individuals to provide IGE’s Ethical Fitness® Seminar for Citadel Cadets. Together with the fourteen trained this month, almost forty certified IGE trainers will be working to promote Ethical Fitness® as part of The Citadel’s leader development curriculum.

“The newly certified trainers are an integral part of The Citadel’s initiative and are positioned to make a lasting impact on Cadet development,” explains IGE President and CEO, Anthony J. Gray. “To enhance rele-vance and learning for their students these trainers will help to identify, capture, and share examples of Honor, Duty, and Respect; The Citadel’s core values in action.”

Reflecting on the fall trainings, lead trainer Cheryl LeBlond shares, “Articulating ethical behavior, in any environment, can be challenging. The Citadel has clearly defined values. Through the process of Ethical Fitness® the workshop attendees identified how they observe ethical thinking within their environment. Incorporating this practice into their leader development curriculum will be invaluable to their mission of developing principled leaders.”

SUPPORTING THE MORAL AND ETHICAL PILLAR AT THE CITADEL

The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, was founded in 1842, and is one of the six Senior Military Colleges in the United States. The Citadel Experience is comprised of four pillars—academics, military, physical effectiveness, and moral/ethical. The Citadel has also fully implemented a four-year initiative called the E-Leadership Portfolio which was awarded the 2014 CHEA Award. This initiative aims to assess the leadership and general education learning outcomes of undergraduate students, measur-ing their growth over their time at The Citadel.

“The principles provided by IGE are a core part of the Ethics in Action Quality Enhancement Plan and Moral/Ethical Pillar at The Citadel,” said Dr. Tara Hornor, Associate Provost for Planning, Assessment, and Evaluation & Dean of Enrollment Management, who heads up the campus-wide Ethics in Action initiative. “Giving our cadets the necessary tools to identify and resolve ethical dilemmas helps The Citadel achieve its mission to educate and develop principled leaders.”

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As part of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Health, Labor, and Employment Law Institute, Anthony J. Gray, the President and CEO of the Institute for Global Ethics (IGE), spoke before eighty health, labor and employment attorneys on how ethical decision-making strategies can help their practice move beyond compliance, becoming more flexible and efficient in the process.

“The profession sets out guidelines for how attorneys should behave, and that’s great,” said Gray. “But what if there’s no clear answer? What if there’s two? That’s when we, as attorneys, need to apply our own ethical judgment.”

The Institute for Global Ethics (IGE) has teamed up with the PR Newswire Association LLC, its affiliates, and their customers as a publishing partner to distribute Corporate Social Responsibil-ity (CSR) Updates. As a publishing partner IGE is able to provide timely information about what is trending in CSR directly from the source. Visitors to IGE’s website can easily find recent CSR updates on its home page. IGE is now offering a weekly email highlighting key CSR Updates.

PR Newswire is the world’s leading corporate information distribution service. PR Newswire distributes client news releases across a network comprised of thousands of media points (including Dow Jones, Xinhua News Agency, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Lex-isNexis, Bloomberg, AP, AFP and the Financial Times), as well as local and hyperlocal outlets and channels.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS

IGE TEAMS UP WITH PR NEWSWIRE TO SHINE A LIGHT ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY EFFORTS

On September 10, Anthony J. Gray spoke to a few hundred entrepreneurs at the breakout session during the 2014 Wisconsin

“Governor’s Small Business Summit” which was held at the Racine Marriott in Racine, WI. His presentation, “The Business Case for Ethical Fitness®,” focused on the quantifiable impact of values on a small businesses’ bottom line.

The Small Business Summit brought together cabinet secretaries and representatives from various state agencies with numerous Wisconsin small-business owners, along with entrepreneurs and innovators. Several events focused on the many issues that face small-business owners in Wisconsin’s current private-sector environment, and included an update about Wisconsin’s business climate and economy.

THE BUSINESS CASE FOR ETHICAL FITNESS®

Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin Rebecca Kleefisch pictured with Anthony Gray.

ETHICS & DIPLOMACY Why Ethics Matter in the Foreign Service

On October 9, the Institute gave a presen-tation to members of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA). His presentation was followed by a question-and-answer ses-sion, both focused on the many ethical issues encountered by our career Foreign Service professionals at the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Develop-ment as well as four other federal agencies

AFSA is the professional representation for the United States Foreign Service and over the past ninety years has focused on making the Foreign Service a more effective, professional organization while protecting the interests

of its members. Today, diplomacy is perhaps more crucial than ever, and AFSA members stand on the front lines of increasingly del-icate conflicts, full of the kind of gray areas that IGE’s training is designed to address.

AFSA’s Committee for the Foreign Service Profession and Ethics recently released re-sults from a survey of AFSA membership. The survey revealed that more than 70 percent of the respondents were in favor of developing a code of ethics for the Foreign Service. This discussion was the next step toward contin-ued collaboration between our two organi-zations on the development of such a code.

On October 10, 2014, IGE trainer Cheryl LeBlond presented an Ethical Fitness® Seminar (EFS) at the home offices of Sweetser, a behavioral-healthcare organization for children, adults, and families located in in Saco, Maine. The seminar addressed how Sweetser employees and associates could better identify and resolve dilemmas—situations presenting right versus right choices—and in doing so, both foster a more positive workplace environment and provide clients with better services.

“The tool will be helpful as a means of simplifying complex prob-lems enough to decide on actions,” said Glenn Mayer, Mental Health Team Leader at Maine Behavioral Healthcare. As head of a treatment team for suicidal individuals, Mayer faces precisely the sort of layered, intense environment that IGE’s training helps decision-makers navigate.

ETHICAL FITNESS® FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

On November 3, more than 125 high school students from across the Olathe School District (Olathe, KS), Kansas City, MO, and neigh-boring districts had the pleasure of hearing from Anthony J. Gray about the role of ethics in the 21st century. Gray was invited as this year’s keynote speaker as part of the second annual 21st Century Ethics Conference which was hosted at Kansas State University’s Innovative Campus.

“It is critical that we begin conversations about the role of values in decision making with students,” reflects Gray. “This conference provided a wonderful jumping off point for students to consider the complexity of the world they live in. We need to continue to find opportunities to engage students in these conversations and IGE looks forward to actively engaging in these ongoing conversations.”

STUDENTS EXPLORE 21ST CENTURY ETHICS WITH THE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ETHICS

In the morning, Gray offered introductory remarks to students outlin-ing key ethical concepts while also imparting his thoughts about the significance of the convening. As he explained, “Values-driven eth-ics are an absolute necessity for any high performing organization.”

After his morning remarks students circulated to breakout sessions focused on reviewing ethics across various vocations including engineering, medicine, law, education, business, communication and art. In each breakout session students explored discipline specific case-studies centered on the role of ethics in school and in the workplace.

In the afternoon, using the same case studies shared during break-out sessions, Gray spent 60 minutes with students introducing them to the Institute’s methodology for analyzing and resolving ethical dilemmas. Gray engaged students by asking them to work their way through the real-life scenarios.

The 21st Century Ethics Conference is a collaborative effort spon-sored by Kansas State University’s Staley School of Leadership Studies and Olathe South High School.

Anthony Gray spoke to students at the University of Texas-Austin’s McCombs School of Business. Gray’s talk dovetailed with the school’s Ethics Unwrapped initiative, a hugely popular program it launched in 2012. His talk,

“Uneven Slopes,” was sponsored by the Bates Family Foun-dation, the BGS Department, and the McCombs Ethics Speakers series.

Robert Prentice, a professor of business law and business ethics and Chair of the Department of Business, Govern-ment & Society at the McCombs School of Business said,

“Mr. Gray gave our University of Texas students the same tools that, thanks to IGE training, businesses have been us-ing to address real-world ethical challenges for 25 years.”

ETHICS UNWRAPPED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN

IGE employees and family members gathered from across Maine, Wisconsin, and Connecticut to set sail out of Maine’s scenic Camden Harbor. The group sailed for two hours to nearby Warren Island State Park where they enjoyed a traditional Maine lobster bake.

FIRST ANNUAL EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT DAY

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