Establish escalation routes for codes of conduct and ethics that work outside normal hours.
Building Codes of Professional Conduct and Corporate Ethics
Move codes of conduct and ethics from general awareness to a repeatable, reviewable practice.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Ambiguity in codes of conduct and ethics is resolved against the party that drafted it. The cost of getting conduct and ethics wrong is rarely the judgment; it is the years spent reaching it. Comparative studies of the practice within legal and contractual practice across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. The course covers codes of conduct and ethics at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. What blocks progress on the wider legal and contractual practice agenda is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about conduct and ethics. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with codes of conduct and ethics. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of conduct and ethics and supervised application. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for this part of legal and contractual practice survives a hostile question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Structure guarantees, bonds and security supporting conduct and ethics.
Prepare the evidential record supporting decisions taken under codes of conduct and ethics.
Build the contract register and obligation tracker covering conduct and ethics.
Diagnose whether a problem in codes of conduct and ethics is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Sequence improvements to conduct and ethics so that each step makes the next one easier.
Prepare and defend claims arising under codes of conduct and ethics with contemporaneous evidence.
Who Should Attend
Company secretaries and governance officers overseeing codes of conduct and ethics.
Members of committees that take decisions affecting conduct and ethics.
Specialists advising senior management on codes of conduct and ethics.
Commercial and procurement managers negotiating conduct and ethics.
Risk managers assessing legal exposure from codes of conduct and ethics.
Finance staff managing payment and security under conduct and ethics.
Course Modules
Codes of conduct and ethics: the clauses that decide the outcome
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Drafting codes of conduct and ethics so ambiguity does not decide it later
- Review limitation and exclusion clauses in codes of conduct and ethics for enforceability.
- Record what was learned when conduct and ethics did not go as planned.
- Define the trigger that would require codes of conduct and ethics to be redesigned.
- Rehearse the briefing on conduct and ethics that would follow an incident.
Session 2Who answers for conduct and ethics, and to whom
- Prepare the claim narrative for codes of conduct and ethics while the facts are fresh.
- Confirm that reporting on conduct and ethics reaches the people who can act.
- Review closed contracts on codes of conduct and ethics for lessons before drafting the next one.
- Confirm signature authority for conduct and ethics against the delegation matrix.
Conduct and ethics: notices, records and time bars
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Negotiating conduct and ethics knowing your walk-away point
- Protect confidential information and intellectual property shared under codes of conduct and ethics.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to conduct and ethics will be introduced.
- Identify the compliance obligations codes of conduct and ethics triggers and who tracks them.
- Set out how exceptions to conduct and ethics are requested and approved.
Session 2Handling variations to conduct and ethics without losing position
- Identify single points of dependency in codes of conduct and ethics and reduce them.
- Anticipate the objections conduct and ethics will raise and prepare the answers.
- Map the handovers in codes of conduct and ethics between functions and secure them.
- Record the reasoning for any departure from the standard position on conduct and ethics.
Conduct and ethics: authority, approval and execution
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where conduct and ethics typically breaks, and why
- Record contemporaneous evidence of performance under codes of conduct and ethics as it happens.
- Confirm that those complying with conduct and ethics understand why it exists.
- Identify which party bears each material risk under codes of conduct and ethics, and whether that is intended.
- Assess whether the dispute route in conduct and ethics suits value and relationship.
Session 2Administering codes of conduct and ethics so the contract stays enforceable
- Handle each variation to codes of conduct and ethics in writing, with price and time consequence agreed.
- Compare the cost of conduct and ethics with the cost of its absence.
- Define the termination triggers in codes of conduct and ethics and the consequences of each.
- Set out the decisions in conduct and ethics that require sign-off and by whom.
Conduct and ethics: security, guarantees and payment protection
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making conduct and ethics work when resources are constrained
- Collect evidence on the present handling of codes of conduct and ethics before proposing changes.
- Standardise recurring clauses in conduct and ethics into an approved template.
- Apply data protection requirements to personal data handled under codes of conduct and ethics.
- Draft the minimum viable contract template for conduct and ethics.
Session 2The clauses in conduct and ethics that matter when performance fails
- Check that records of codes of conduct and ethics answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Confirm bonds, guarantees and insurance supporting conduct and ethics are valid and current.
- Remove steps in codes of conduct and ethics that add effort without adding assurance.
- Check the governing law and jurisdiction clauses in conduct and ethics are consistent.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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