values, ethics & inclusive leadership
Full-day module within the Leadership Pathway, for leaders holding and modelling the standards their organisation runs on.
Focused on making values real in everyday decisions, applying a clear ethical standard under pressure, and building the practical conditions for a genuinely inclusive team.
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To connect a real leadership decision to your organisation's own stated values, in behaviour, not just in words.
To apply the Seven Principles of Public Life as a practical test for a decision under pressure.
To understand the four stages of psychological safety, and identify concrete actions to build each one in your own team.
To recognise where values, ethics and inclusion show up together in the decisions you're responsible for.
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09:30 – 09:45
Welcome and introductions
Setting the tone for the module, reviewing pre-course themes and expectations.09:45 – 10:30
The values integration thread
Connecting a real leadership decision to one of your organisation's own stated values - and what that value actually looks like in behaviour.10:30 – 11:15
Values under pressure
Paired exercise: you talk through a real decision where a value and a practical pressure pulled in different directions; your partner reflects back what they noticed. Output: a values-tested-decision worksheet you can reuse.11:15 – 11:30
Break11:30 – 12:15
The Seven Principles of Public Life
Selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership, as everyday tests for a decision.12:15 – 13:00
Ethical decision drill
Working through a real or realistic dilemma you recognise from your own role, testing it against the seven principles and naming where the pressure to compromise usually comes from.13:00 – 13:45
Lunch13:45 – 14:30
The four stages of psychological safety
Inclusion, learner, contributor and challenger safety, as a practical ladder for building an inclusive team.14:30 – 15:15
Where are you on the ladder?
Self-assessment against the four stages for your own team, then paired work identifying one concrete action to move up a stage.15:15 – 15:30
Break15:30 – 16:00
Bringing it together
You identify where values, ethics and inclusion show up together in one real decision or relationship you're responsible for.16:00 – 16:30
Commitments and close
Agreeing what you will do differently from tomorrow, and how it connects to the shared standards set at pathway kickoff.
