Ethical Leadership – The Challenges and Rewards

As leader and manager of others, you have probably experienced circumstances that presented difficult ethical challenges for both the objective you were trying to achieve and the way you were going about doing it. You probably also found that your personal ethics have been challenged or called into question as you carried out your professional duties. In other words, leadership is a complex moral relationship between people, based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.

In XLC’s Ethical Leadership – The Challenges and Rewards Certificate, you will develop an understanding of your own moral compass that informs your ethics or principles of behavior. You will also wrestle with the ethics of means and ends in carrying out your professional responsibilities.  This engaging, online program combines small group exploration of ethics case studies with supplemental “Action Experience” activities to try after completion of the program.

Values leadership is based on selecting, defining, modeling, and promoting values to unify individuals in striving toward a shared vision. Values leaders create a culture of trust that inspires individuals to a higher level of motivation, morality, and achievement.

Amplifying info: Ethical Leadership – The Challenges and Rewards Certificate

• This is an asynchronous class taken over an 8-week period, which means that learners have the flexibility to participate when they are able each week.
  • The pace of the course is designed for busy professionals; however, weekly participation in the class discussions is expected.
• The class is interactive:
  • Content aligned with the learning objectives each week.
  • Students connect with each other in the classroom discussion board through carefully crafted discussion questions.
  • The course facilitator monitors the classroom discussion and provides input
  • Learners participate in exercises designed to stretch their communication, leadership, and decision-making skills.
• The class is practical:
  • It uses real-world ethics cases.
  • It draws upon the wisdom and best practices of subject matter experts.
  • It helps learners develop and practice important skills related to the topic:
    • Design and communicate a vision that accounts for the ethical challenges of leadership
    • Develop a culture of trust
    • Develop the ability to analyze the ethical dimensions of a situation and devise an effective course of action

XLC’s Ethical Leadership – The Challenges and Rewards Certificate is designed for team leaders and executives looking to further develop ethically as leaders.

• Develop a deeper self-understanding of your moral principles and ethical values
• Practice designing and communicating a vision that accounts for the ethical challenges of leadership
• Practice how leaders develop a culture of trust
• Explain the ethical challenges of diversity
• Develop the ability to analyze the ethical dimensions of a situation and devise an effective course of action
• Learn through supplemental tools and exercises