Strengthen Your Firm by Hiring High-Character Professionals
Can you afford to hire a single dishonest person? Of course not.
Would your accounting practice flourish if you have a team member who doesn't keep their promises or refuses to accept responsibility for their mistakes? No way.
But what are you doing to ensure that you bring only high-character people onto your team?
This unique take on accounting ethics reveals 4 crucial qualities of high-character team members: honesty, accountability, care, and courage.
You'll learn specific questions you can ask to evaluate a job candidate's character and what can happen if you focus exclusively on the candidate's knowledge and skill (spoiler alert: it's not good).
This is an entertaining way to learn about the power of finding and keeping ethical people who will do the right thing consistently and make you shine!
Forbes Contributor The Ethics Guy®
Through his entertaining presentations on ethical leadership and AI ethics, Forbes Contributor Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy, shows CPAs, HR managers, and other professionals how everyone benefits from honest, accountable behavior. He is the CEO of both The Institute for High-Character Leadership, LLC and The Ethics Guy, LLC. He writes about ethical leadership for Forbes.com, and his books include "Ethical Intelligence: 5 Principles for Untangling Your Toughest Problems at Work and Beyond," "The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High-Character Employees," and for tweens and teens, "Is It Still Cheating If I Don't Get Caught?" Bruce's clients have included the international bank Societe Generale, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Ford Motor Company, Dublin-based construction company CRH, Northrop Grumman, the National Football League, the Western Australian Local Government Association, The Home Depot, and over 300 other companies around the world. Bruce received his B.A. in philosophy from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy with a concentration in bioethics from Georgetown University and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. The W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan awarded Bruce a National Fellowship in Leadership Development. He lives in New York City with his wife Kristen Bancroft, a compliance professional in the financial services industry. To relax Bruce enjoys playing music (guitar, harmonica, and drums), visiting national parks with his wife, and trying to figure out the plot of "The Godfather."
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