Rehearse uncomfortable situations involving competing priorities and difficult judgment calls. Ovida provides feedback against your chosen ethical leadership criteria to support reflection and discussion.
Ethical failure is rarely an outcome of one isolated decision. It arises through multiple conversations where behaviours and values are stretched. Ovida helps make it clear through practice where and how to communicate ethically.
of employees felt pressure to compromise their standards
observed misconduct, the highest level the survey has recorded
of those who spoke up were retaliated against
Sources: Ethics & Compliance Initiative, Global Business Ethics Survey 2023 (findings summarized by NAVEX)
Critical discussions to get right
Codes of conduct are written calmly, in advance, by people who are not in the room. The decision gets made under time pressure, with incomplete information and someone senior waiting on an answer.
Ovida shows you how you actually handle the pressure in the moment.
Leaders can make the right decision, but they lose the team because they did not explain the logic behind the thought process. If people cannot follow the logic, they are less likely to comply with the instruction or be able to apply it themselves next time.
Ovida identifies exactly where you did or did not explain the logic behind your decision and your desired outcome, and allows you and your team to get better outcomes.
Speaking up is not easy, when so many times it feels like the cost of doing so comes back to the individual wanting to convey a difficult message.
Ovida allows the individual to practice in a safe, anonymous environment as many times as they need, to support them in articulating the message.
You set the ethical framework, values and behaviors you would like to be measured against. Ovida will consistently assess your conversations against those metrics, providing specific feedback on how your decision-making process either did or did not meet those set benchmarks.
Leadership behaviors
Meeting ethical standards and achieving a sustainable business requires the right values to be met consistently.
A sales lead is close to hitting quota and a client asks a question that, answered honestly, could lose the deal.
Do they oversell, or tell the truth?
Ovida measures how that conversation unfolds, reviews it against your organization's ethical standards and code of conduct. The team can then rehearse holding the line under pressure, so integrity is maintained and growth stays sustainable.
A manager is asked to fast-track a supplier who happens to be a close friend's company, bypassing the usual tender process.
What do they say, and to whom?
Ovida measures how that conversation is handled, reviews it against your conflict-of-interest policy and business goals. Managers can then rehearse the pushback before it is needed, so good judgment holds up under real pressure rather than only in policy.
Ovida provides you with a dashboard of all of your role plays and scenarios, identifying where your strengths are and where you should actively rehearse and improve.
Continuous development and improvementOvida takes the difficult conversations, with a client, a fellow team member, or a tough negotiation, and allows you to role-play them in a secure, anonymous environment, as many times as you want, before it happens for real.
Practice makes perfectOvida consistently scores all conversations against the selected benchmark of behaviors and values, so an organization can provide evidence that conduct is maintained or improved where it is needed.
Behavior change, measured over timeEvery organization has a code of conduct and a set of behaviors. Ovida allows you to role-play conversations to bring these to life.
Understanding how you are received as a leader, by those looking to provide difficult messages to you, is critical to supporting ethical business. Ovida allows you to identify the exact moments in the conversation where you could improve in your understanding of the organization's guidelines, and in demonstrating empathy and support for the individual.
Ovida allows a cost-effective, efficient deployment to all members of your organization, to learn and develop the expected ethical business approach required.
Ovida allows a safe, anonymous environment for the individual to rehearse the most difficult conversations with an AI coach, to improve the confidence with which they deliver the message or raise the concern.
What Ovida measures, how the scoring is checked, what happens to your data, and the questions people ask about ethical leadership.
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