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Professional Ethics
A 2-1/2 Day Course
If you are a public official, or if you practice a profession that
exposes you to public scrutiny, we invite you to participate in this seminar
on professional ethics. It's designed just for you.
What's Professional Ethics all about?
Here's one way to describe it:
- If you are an elected, appointed, or hired public official (or if you practice a profession), we -- the society at large -- expect you
to live up to certain Ground Rules . . . ground rules of Professional Ethics.
- The problem is these ground rules are un-written ground rules
. . . We tell you a particular ground rule
after you have broken it . . .
It's not very fair, but that's the long and the short of it; that's how it
works . . . And, the penalties for public officials or professionals exercising poor judgment on issues of ethics tend to be
severe. Your career may be finished; . . . your program
or your agency may get wiped out . . .
The Seminar on Professional Ethics:
The subject matter is both difficult and important. In fact, the course's main objective is to teach you judgment -- to the degree that it can be done in a class room
. . .
- Judgment in how to deal with the different
kinds of professional binds you will find yourself
in now and then, . . .
- Judgment in how to anticipate some of the
downright unfair pressures people will put you under,
- Judgment about how to anticipate -- and deal
with -- the temptations that are perfectly predictable for your particular field, . . .
- Judgment in steps you can take to prevent being in an ethical bind, . . .
- Judgment in how you can deal with these
situations --even if you can't prevent them outright,
- Judgment in how to coach your staff on dealing with issues of ethics, . . . how
to immunize them to errors of professional ethics . . .
This training is designed to immunize you against judgmental errors in
the area of professional ethics. The course is based strictly
on real-world cases . . . Cases out of the newspapers . . . Cases
were professionals were confronted with ethical binds, unethical pressures
and temptations . . . Cases that familiarize you with the real-world
faces of ethics issues . . . Real-world cases of bad ethical
judgment and good ethical judgment ... (One can learn from both . . . ) That's
how we can help you get your sea-legs in exercising judgement
in decisions involving professional ethics.
Without training on this subject, you're bound to repeat these errors yourself . . . because you don't
have to be stupid to make ethics mistakes . . . The professionals
whose lives you see destroyed in the mass media every day are not
dumb! Just check their record, their accomplishments! . . . We, and
you are not smarter. Any ethics mistakes they make, we are likely to make too . . . unless, of course, we have studied the subject . . . Your ordinary common
sense will not keep you from making errors of an ethical nature...It's not that simple! In fact, it's treacherously complicated! . . . Judgment in issues of professional ethics is a whole other ball game.
If you're not going to be just another public official,
but a truly successful public official; . . . if you are not just going to work in a profession,
but serve with distinction . . . get immunized . . . get
the shots...come join us in our seminar!
It's a couple of days of hard work, but it sure
beats having to tell your mother that you don't know why CNN and The
New York Times keep mentioning your name; . . . telling her not
to worry, . . . telling her that you have done nothing wrong, . . .
telling her that you don't know why this nightmare is happening to you
. . .
 For information on our
Open-House schedule for Professional
Ethics courses
For information
on scheduling In-House Professional
Ethics courses
 Register For a Course
 Fee Schedule
 For
more information on IPMP and our (Hans and Annemarie Bleiker's ) overall approach
to becoming effective public officials, visit our Citizen
Participation Handbook page.
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