Courses

The format of these courses are face to face, about 12 persons per course. Many are initially offered in Toronto, with more possible locations depending on the interest. Please let us know if you would like to see your location in the list!

Ethics Strategy Courses

Due Diligence When Conducting Business in Foreign Jurisdictions

Description: Doing business with entities in other countries can be exciting and rewarding. However the initial stages of opening up a new overseas business relationship can be challenging. Do you know who you are really dealing with? Have you exposed your organization to unforseen risks that could have been avoided?

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Ethics Enhancement

Conducting an Investigation

Many organizations, in both the public and private sector, are required to conduct investigations, be they internal or external in nature. It is not a question “if” an investigation will be required but “when?” Organizations must have access to people with the skills to conduct a fair, impartial and efficient investigation. The focus is on collecting the needed information in the least disruptive manner as possible.

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Leading with Integrity in Education: Enhancing Ethics Leadership, Assurance and Complaint Resolution in Colleges and Universities Sector

School boards and universities have grown over the years to involve thousands of employees besides teachers. Teachers’ and faculty professional organizations have developed a process to deal with teachers, but this has left a gap in the policies and procedures for school boards and post-secondary schools use to deal with non-teaching employees such as janitors, maintenance staff, bus drivers, teacher’s aides, secretarial staff, and administrative staff. Although the public do not see these employees working behind the scenes, a great amount of time is spent by the administrative staff at the school level and at the school board level dealing with internal conflicts and work issues, including ethical issues.

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Sustainability in Civil Society Organizations; Leadership and Managing Organizational Performance

There is a lot of media attention to, and literature about, corporate adaptation to climate change and companies management of their various business affairs in a responsible way. Reduce…. Reuse… recycle… sustainability plans… ethical supply chains… and the like. Businesses are putting in place monitoring and management systems to enhance their profits, better manage their environmental issues, building an organizational culture that improves employee job satisfaction and retention and demonstrate leadership in the marketplace and the media. Large publicly-traded businesses realize that there is a payback from investments in responsible practices, because 50-75 per cent of their market valuation may be in reputation and brand management.

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End of Life Decision-making: Application of Recent Legal Decisions in Canada

Description: This one-day course, which will include both presentations, panel dicussions, and opportunities for small group discussions, will focus on the topic of informed consent for end-of-life decisions. This intensive program features a multi-disciplinary set of discussions, questions and answers involving a consent and capacity legal specialist, a clinician, an ethicist and a health economist.

The emphasis will be on the significance of two major court decisions (Rasouli and Cefarelli) and the direct implications of these cases for your hospital end-of-life policies and practices. Topics covered will include: how to draft hospital policies that are consistent with legal and ethical standards on end-of-life issues; what is best practice in terms of end-of-life counseling for family members of patients and substitute decision makers; how best to support hospitals and health care practitioners in fulfilling their fiduciary, ethical and legal obligations towards patients and substitute decision makers at the end-of-life; and how to develop/revise materials to support decision making at the end-of-life, such as proactive training, empowerment techniques, and anticipatory brochures for substitute decision makers.

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Ethical Partnering: the Good, The Bad and the Ugly

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Two out of three public-private sector and public-public sector strategic alliances fail. While the reasons are many, the principal obstacles are often rooted in large cultural differences of organizations involved. The two experienced EthicScan instructors offering this course use a variety of checklists, case studies and best practice suggestions to help you understand and navigate this “mine field”.

In this course, you will learn how to design and deliver public-to-private and public-to-public sponsorships. The step by step process developed by EthicScan for use in training Government of Canada staff in all departments, agencies and boards and commissions is the starting point for the framework presented here in this day-long course. The material, supplemented by one day-long immersion in a case study, exposes a number of useful skills and checklists as well as a state-of-the-art process for achieving these objectives.

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This full-day, interactive course, Ethical Partnering: the Good, The Bad and the Ugly, is based upon a number of successful education programs and seminars researched, designed and presented by David Nitkin, Jane Garthson and Marie-Claude Boudreau across the country, from Moncton to Vancouver.

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Social and Ethical Accounting, Auditing and Reporting: ESG Metrics

Over the past twenty-five years, there has been a steady succession of standards of corporate responsibility. This effort has resulted in over 2,300 enterprises globally who at least once report in some fashion or another on their social, ethical, environmental or governance responsibilities. A plethora of rating agencies, industry association standards, and auditor accreditation standards has been generated. Despite efforts by certain countries to mandate such reporting, those who expected a single universally-accepted accounting, auditing or reporting standard to emerge have been disappointed.

The approach in this participatory course Social and Ethical Accounting, Auditing and Reporting: ESG Metrics will be a mix of theory and practice. Throughout the day, the participants will examine a small number of existing reports in terms of their strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations for enhancement. The reports to be studied and peer-evaluated include a mix of ones selected by the instructor, ones recognized as exemplary from reviews on the Just Means and CSRWire web-sites, and reports pre-recommended by and brought to the class by registered attendees. Registrants can bring any report – including their own, if they choose– that they’d like reviewed in small working groups as well as participate in developing the accounting, auditing and reporting standards or criteria for that assessment.

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Ethics Reinforcement

Sponsorship and Partnership Tune-Up For NGOs: Renewal, Innovation and Redesign

Description: More and more civil society organizations are losing the struggle of trying to do more with less, and instead are simply looking at doing less with less. They aren’t able to increase their fundraising in head office or local/Provincial offices commensurate with their needs. Volunteer and engagement programs are not keeping up with changing times. This need not be the case. Education foundations, health-related charities, community foundations, and client service agencies who find themselves failing to face the challenge of exploring effective ways to reinvent themselves can often benefit from a critical diagnosis of their condition. In certain renewal cases, this has led to systemic changes in strategy, volunteer engagement, and enhanced ways to address traditional and non-traditional donations, grants, partnerships and other funding sources.

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Protect Your Organization from Fraud Schemes

Organizations lose billions of dollars each year to fraud. In order to protect you and your organization from fraud, you must know how to recognize it. This seminar examines the concept of fraud from a legal as well as operational viewpoint and how fraud can be can recognized early. In today’s world, corporate and government professionals must be aware of the types of frauds that could target their organizations. Fraud is a multi-billion dollar illegal industry and failure to understand these frauds in their various forms could lead to significant financial loss and possible legal liability.

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Municipal Accountability, Transparency and Ethics Assurance: Governance and Integrity Best Practices

Description: Of our three levels of government, it is the local municipal level that merits the greatest level of trust in the minds of Canadians. While it makes sense that the most accessible, immediate tier which affects people’s lives is the most reputable, recent attitudinal surveys indicate that these respect levels are only “fair”, that trust levels vary between communities, and that overall understanding of which level of government does what is poor. This is despite the introduction of permissive legislation allowing municipalities to create accountability officers including integrity commissioners, ombudsmen, closed meeting investigators, and lobbyist registrars. Over thirty Ontario municipalities have created such officers within the last three years.

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