Team norms, belonging and the courage to think for yourself
One of the strongest influences on behaviour is often neither policy nor training.
It is the answer to: “What do people around here actually do?”
Young trainees learn quickly from team norms. Sometimes those norms are excellent. Sometimes they quietly communicate that certain shortcuts, communication styles or compromises are acceptable.
A real developmental issue: Maintaining ethical agency while belonging to a group.
A trainee may recognise an issue but still think:
SAICA competency connection
Very strong fit with business ethics. Trainees are expected to evaluate how ethics operates in the environment and whether values, policies and codes are actually practised and enforced.
They are also explicitly expected to recognise their own positive or negative contribution to ethical culture.
This session includes:
Why a Training Officer would choose this session
This session moves ethical culture out of the boardroom and shows a first-year trainee:
“You are already part of the culture.”
