Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Every ethical act at your workplace today builds a more ethical future tomorrow. With ethics as an action word – we take more exciting steps in the direction of integrity. When we look at honesty in the workplace, we too often see stuffiness or people preaching values they forget to follow, or judgments made against others’ ethics – with too few personal changes evident of our own practices. This leads to too much talk with far fewer evidences of honesty and values where we work.

The key to success when it comes to values is to define which traits will integrate and be required to solve all career-related problems. I am speaking of building new neuron pathways to apply ethics as a problem solving tool. The brain responds with dendrites connections increased and a moral compass in a person's intrapersonal intelligence. Worth a try?

Here are 4 smart skills to ensure that ethical values remain central and impact the outcomes at any workplace….

1. Decide on shared values your team with foster. Brainstorm these and ensure all have an opportunity to make suggestions and see themselves as part of the process. These might include … fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerating ambiguity, welcoming differences, for instance.

2. Help people to do the ethical thing, by showing them new angles that will solve old problems. Racism and sexist may go underground, for instance, but until replaced by valuing others who differ from ourselves, it will destroy productivity. Brain based practices simply show people who we all benefit when differences are part of the mix in all levels of an organization. People tend to want to do the right thing – and new angles of the brain’s ethical  power in practice works especially well.

3. Create a plan to measure evidences for values required. Values impact the causes we champion, the products we go for and the deals we make at work. They are far more than works and they can be measured with a plan in mind.

4. Reward values and motivate growth in ethical practices,  upheld by your organization. Be specific! Demanding appeals for  narrow values – decided by a few though - tend to divide groups. In contrast, shared values … such as mutual respect, honoring people’s faith, hard work, opportunities for all to succeed, and valuing people’s unique talents … tend to unite people.

Values and shared ethical practices allow any group or organization to  glance back to its wonderful natural heritage, and gaze forward in order to cherish and protect the values that will shape its future.