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The Power of Local Knowledge: Why Product Development Should Start with Listening to Your Community

Stern + Associates

A pioneer in fusing social work, communications and data science, and the most cited and recognized scholar studying how groups constructed online can influence behavior offline, Patton helps organizations create processes that connect employees with customers, enabling their products to affect people more broadly.

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Independence: The Source of Our Integrity, Our Power and Influence

PRSay

Each September, PRSA recognizes Public Relations Ethics Month, supported by programs presented by the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS). This year’s theme, Public Relations Ethics: Strengthening Our Core, guides a special focus on the six core values highlighted in the PRSA Code of Ethics.

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Does PR Help in Reputation Management for Your Company?

Victorious PR

You know it’s reputable because you personally vet and hire each employee; have strong company values that you live by; inspire your employees to live by them as well; and do your best to make sure your company is ethical, moral, and genuine. That is how you construct authority for yourself and your business.

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How to Build Trust Ethically and Effectively – Roy Reid

Ethical Voices

He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: What to do when your client asks you to besmirch the competition How to effectively and ethically build trust What to do when employees, clients and partners break your trust Why don’t you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your career?

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Crisis Management Advice from a Retiring Pro: Rick Amme

Melissa Agnes

Be sure employees, shareholders, boards, customers, suppliers, etc. Do NOT, however, withhold information in violation of legal, regulatory, ethical, and moral mandates. This “reassurance” is a great litmus test for your decisions. Most solutions are internal. know what you are doing and why before you tell outsiders.

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Investing in Corporate Reputation Via Responsible, ESG Investing

Reputation Us

Among other things, it increases customer loyalty, attracts shareholders and helps recruit and retain top-tier employees. By being socially responsible, a company demonstrates that it incorporates ethical practices into how it does business. With strength in numbers, collective employee efforts can achieve substantial results.

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A New Approach to New Year’s Resolutions

Barokas

This realization first hit me in my personal life, when I recognized that while I want to instill a strong sense of ambition and work ethic in my children, I don’t want to burden them with the feeling that they must be in a state of perpetual change to be successful.