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On May 16, 2012, I was in Spokane, Washington providing training to the Board of Directors of Enduris, a public risk management pool. Enduris has a policy that its Board be trained annually on ethics. I trained them last year, and I was honored to be invited back again this year.
Outline of training: The training lasted a little over an hour, although we could have easily spent more time discussing some of the issues, had the Board's agenda had permitted it. Here's an outline of the training.
- Why should we talk about ethics?
- Public service is a public trust
- What's so important about appearances?
- 8 areas of ethical risk
- 5 keys to making ethical decisions
- Strategies for dealing with ethical lapses
- 7 risks of ethical lapses
- What ethics laws and standards apply?
- Resources
8 areas of ethical risk: The 8 areas of ethical risk that we looked at, primarily through the lens of recent news stories of public agencies who have experienced headline news, were:
- Embezzlement
- Waste of government resources
- Sexual misbehavior
- Private use of public resources
- Outside employment
- Conflicts of interest
- Contracting
- Gifts
Practical steps: We talked about the importance of public agencies having a code of ethics, ensuring that all staffed are trained on ethical expectations regularly, and of creating systems and cultures that provide checks and balances with sufficient independent oversight.
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