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When the world of work gets stressful, short-term thinking can prevail, leading to poor decision making at a time when clear thinking is most needed.
"In an increasingly volatile environment, organisations often fall back on short-term goals, unthinking practices and prescriptive compliance and surveillance to guide behaviour. As a result, people risk becoming rule followers, incapable of making good decisions under uncertain and pressured conditions," says Stuart Palmer, head of practice at St James Ethics Centre.
A better understanding of ethics, and the ingredients that make up ethical decision making, could help.
"It builds people's capacity to more effectively, collaboratively and sustainably pursue their individual and organisational purposes over the long term," he says.
In this interactive workshop, participants are challenged by ideas, case studies and dilemmas.
Duration One day.
Time 9am to 4pm.
Where North Sydney.
When Runs four times a year, plus in-house on demand. Next public course, May 22.
Link ethics.org.au/content/good-decisions.
Frequently Asked Questions about this Article…
The 'Good decisions' workshop is an interactive one-day course run by the St James Ethics Centre. It uses ideas, case studies and real-world dilemmas to help participants understand the ingredients of ethical decision making and improve their ability to make sound choices under pressure.
Ethical decision making matters because stressful, short-term thinking can lead to poor choices. As the article notes, learning ethics helps people make clearer, more collaborative and sustainable decisions over the long term—skills that can help investors avoid knee-jerk reactions in volatile markets.
The course challenges participants with practical activities including case studies, dilemmas and guided discussion. These exercises focus on the building blocks of ethical decision making so you can better handle uncertainty and pressure when making important choices.
The 'Good decisions' workshop is a one-day course that runs from 9am to 4pm.
Public sessions are held in North Sydney and the program runs four times a year. The next public course listed in the article is on May 22. The St James Ethics Centre also offers in-house sessions on demand.
Yes. In addition to public courses, the St James Ethics Centre runs the 'Good decisions' workshop in-house on demand for organisations seeking tailored ethical decision-making training.
Stuart Palmer, head of practice at the St James Ethics Centre, is quoted. He explains that in volatile environments organisations often revert to short-term goals and rules, and that understanding ethics builds people's capacity to pursue individual and organisational purposes more effectively over the long term.
For full course details and registration information, visit the St James Ethics Centre's web page listed in the article: ethics.org.au/content/good-decisions.
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