Overview

Sometimes your core beliefs and intuitive reactions can impair your ability to “do the right thing” in public service. Work to create your own useable ethical framework, employing new tools for auditing and managing your behavior. By developing your moral reasoning skills, you will become better able to handle everyday dilemmas in a way that enhances organizational integrity. Leave Brookings with a new confidence in your ability to make responsible, defensible decisions that advance the public good.

This course is required for the Certificate in Public Leadership

Course Information

Location:
Washington, DC

Tuition:
$2,475

Dates:

Oct 01 - Oct 03, 2008
Register Now

Mar 02 - Mar 04, 2009
Register Now

Sep 02 - Sep 04, 2009
Register Now

Contact:
Liz Barron
Director, Leadership Programs
202.797.6314
or lbarron@brookings.edu

Program Benefits

  • Ability to appreciate ambiguities and weigh the moral value of different options
  • Enhanced ethical awareness to drive your public service practice
  • Understanding of your personal responsibilities at work

Competencies

  • Integrity and honesty
  • Problem-solving

Praise for this Program

"Thought provoking, intellectually challenging."
-- Debbie Gallaway, NASA Headquarters, 2006

"Not your everyday ethics course. Very thought provoking. Ethics in a new and useable light."
--Julie Robertson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2006