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ETHICAL LEADERSHIP

• WHO, WHAT, HOW

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Object of Rotary

• Second Object of Rotary
• High ethical standards in business and
  professions the recognition of the worthiness of
  all useful occupations and the dignifying of
  each Rotarians occupation as an opportunity to
  serve society

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What is Ethical Leadership?

• Definition  Ethical leadership is knowing your
  core values and having the courage to live them
  in all parts of your life in service of the
  common good.

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Why Lead?

• The ultimate purpose of leadership is to shape a
  future that is visionary,inclusive, and enables
  all members of society to fulfill their needs,
  dreams and potentials

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BECOMING AN ETHICAL LEADER

• What are my most important values and principles?
  
• Does my calendar how I spend my time and
  attention reflect these values?
• What do I want to accomplish with my leadership?
• What do I want people to say about my leadership
  when I am gone?

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ASK YOURSELF Below are some questions to ask on
your personal journey toward ethical leadership

• Will you be the same person at work? At home? In
  the community?
• How do your values contribute to the common good?

• Will you have the courage to live out your values
  when there is pressure to compromise or
  rationalize?
• What would my subordinates peers say my value
  are?

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Characteristics of Ethical Leadership

• Articulate and embody the purpose and values of
  the organization
• Focus on organizational success instead of
  personal ego
• Find the best people and develop them

• Create a living conversation about ethics, values
  and the creation of value.
• Create mechanisms of dissent
• Frame Actions in ethical terms mess up, fess
  up, fix it.

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Gracious Space

• In every organization there is a need for open
  honest communication about difficult issues.
• How we show up, our intentions and gifts we bring
  to a relationship, project or process
• What is the setting it can foster or thwart
• Inviting the stranger in be open to diverse and
  divergent viewpoints
• Learning in public letting go of knowing and
  being right

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I or We ?

• Collective leadership becomes possible when the
  members of a group, motivated by a common
  purpose, begin to build relationships with each
  other that are genuinely respectful enough to
  allow them to co-construct their shared purpose
  and work. This is about expanding from solo
  perspective of I to include the We.