There is undoubtedly a strong link between work ethics, employee performance, and employee morale. Practising ethical leadership is how organisations can thrive in the future!

This certificate guides you through several challenges in the workplace. To understand how to ethically lead a team, it is important to first understand the challenges you face, including unethical leadership, bias, generational gaps, and workplace bullies. To counter these issues, this certificate provides you with the latest knowledge in the field of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

MODULE 1 - Challenges of Unethical Behaviour
Start the certificate by gaining a better understanding of the specific responsibilities managers and directors have in creating an ethical environment. This is a rundown of the state of ethics in Canadian businesses, including what threats exist, and how to interpret signs of danger.

MODULE 2 - Identify challenges
In this Module, you will delve into more specific challenges that you will encounter at your workplace, particularly, the struggle of different generations working together, with different expectations, experiences, and ways of doing things. We also address how different personality types can, and ultimately will, affect your workplace. Learn to work more effectively with those whose personalities may clash with your own.

MODULE 3 - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
One of the most common issues in maintaining an ethical workplace is ensuring that equality, diversity, and inclusion permeates all levels of the organization. Not only must you ensure that no outwardly unjust actions or behaviours are taking place, but you must also actively create a culture of inclusion and awareness. This Module will guide you through this complicated process.

MODULE 4 - Leadership Principles
Now that you have a better understanding of several ethical issues you are likely to come across in the workplace, learn how to lead the way in creating a better space and community for the workers. Learn to be a leader that people want to follow by inspiring, listening, and appreciating.

MODULE 5 - Skills for Great Managers
In this Module, we follow up with tips on continuing to lead your ethical workplace with the respect of your team. With the understanding gained in the previous Module, learn how to provide effective feedback and how to lead a remote team - both skills that have become unmeasurably more important in the last couple of years.

MODULE 6- Conflict management and emotional intelligence
This module concentrates on the challenge identified earlier of potential conflict between colleagues. Personality types clash and specific situations may cause conflict at a moment's notice. Learn the emotional intelligence skills to stop conflict in its tracks, improve morale, and decrease tension.

MODULE 7- Create a safe workspace
Learn to enable a safe work environment from the ground up. Begin by creating a culture of team respect, with a guide on changing the culture of the workplace effectively and efficiently. This Module also teaches you how to address workplace bullies and harassment that will inevitably pop up from time to time, and manage these difficulties with a firm but caring hand.