Ethical Leadership

Keynote, Breakout or Seminar

Ethical Leadership is a high content program designed to help every manager, supervisor and team leader evaluate their effectiveness as a leader. Recognizing and balancing the fast paced ever changing work environment demands with the need to motivate and energize employees for greater productivity are critical for success. Inspirational tools and hardwired strategies will be provided to give leaders the help needed to tackle important workplace issues with renewed confidence, greater ethical awareness and vigor. Bernadette has worked with managers throughout the United States to improve their leadership capabilities and increase organizational performance while preserving their integrity.

• What are the tenants of leadership and management and why it is important.
• How to delegate and problem solve quickly and effectively.
• Understand the elements of building solid employee relations.
• Cultivate employees to become hardworking, loyal, and honest.
• Leading through example and inspiration.
• How your leadership style affects your team
• The importance of benchmarking and goal setting.
• Provide feedback and evaluation that motivates and improves employee performance.
• Smooth over difficult or awkward confrontations with team members.
• Learn to flex your communication style and increase emotional intelligence.
• Build a creative, innovative and productive working environment.

Lessons Learned from Enron – Keynote, Breakout or Seminar

“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.” Warren Buffet, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway.

Enron the giant corporation once noted as the 7th largest in the world financially imploded practically overnight. Many working Americans had their retirement accounts heavily invested in Enron believing Enron was a sound investment that would provide financial security in later years. In this insightful keynote presentation, Bernadette will discuss the importance of developing and living a corporate culture that is deep rooted in integrity as she discusses the 6 fundamentally wrong values that grew within Enron and how these wrong values contributed to Enron’s downfall:

• Make the deal, it doesn’t matter what it costs to make the deal or whether the deal makes sense.
• Fulfilling promises to customers both internally and externally does not matter. Use, delay, renegotiate or bait and switch tactics.
• Practice blaming others and “pass the buck accountability”.
• Image is everything, substance matters minimally, looking good on the outside is most important.
• There are no consequences for inappropriate or illegal behaviors, Enron rewards bravado.
• Intimidate, ostracize or simply ignore anyone who criticizes you. If they don’t agree with you they are simply STUPID.

Learn why ethical leadership is essential in our era of transparency. Make choices to pivot towards honest, principled leadership that is has integrity but still remains highly competitive.  See how top performing companies are doing so nationally and internationally.