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Ethical Culture: The Power of Storytelling

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Ethical Culture: The Power of Storytelling

Humans are hard wired to learn through stories. Storytelling can be an impactful tool to help instruct and engage employees on the topic of ethics and to help build an organization’s ethical culture. Stories are most effective when we can see ourselves in the characters, identify with the experience, and take away lessons to apply in real life. Storytelling around ethics and compliance, when done right, puts the employee at the center of the conversation.

This handout shares two examples of using storytelling to communicate around ethics and compliance.

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Measuring Ethical Culture Infographic: Retaliation

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Measuring Ethical Culture Infographic: Retaliation

This infographic shares data points from Ethisphere’s 2023 Culture Benchmark Data Set on retaliation, including the top reason employees don’t report, witnessing retaliation, and awareness of non-retaliation policies.

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Ethicast: What the FDIC’s Toxic Workplace Culture Can Teach Us

Ethicast

Ethicast: What the FDIC’s Toxic Workplace Culture Can Teach Us

On November 13, the Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report by Rebecca Ballhaus detailing a pervasive toxic culture at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, the federal agency that oversees the stability of the U.S. banking system. The report involved interviews with more than 100 FDIC employees and detailed a gruesome record of misbehavior, including misogyny, sexual harassment, alcohol abuse, managerial neglect, speak-up retaliation, and more.

Joining us to offer her expert insight on what lessons ethics and compliance professionals can learn from the situation at the FDIC is Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair, Erica Salmon Byrne.

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Research-Based Methods for Questioning Witnesses & Assessing Credibility in Workplace Investigations

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Research-Based Methods for Questioning Witnesses & Assessing Credibility in Workplace Investigations

In this webinar, learn strategies and techniques for interviewing witnesses during workplace investigations, including:

How to utilize the “Cognitive Interview,” which is the most widely researched interviewing techniques in the world
How many common beliefs about spotting deception are incorrect
How to apply research-based methods for detecting signs of deception and truthfulness

Featuring:

Michael Johnson, Chief Strategy Officer, Traliant

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Ethicast: Press X to Continue: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Ethics

Ethicast

Ethicast: Press X to Continue: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Ethics

Ethisphere’s Editor in Chief Bill Coffin talks about culture and second chances in an editorial entitled Press X to Continue, which is the prompt that video games give their players to enable them to keep playing after their game ends.

This is a companion piece to Serious Fun, an in-depth interview with Jen Brewer, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at video game giant Activision Blizzard King, which appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Ethisphere Magazine. The interview showcases the brilliant things Jen and her team are achieving at ABK.

You can read Serious Fun here, and download the entire Fall 2023 issue here.

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