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Benjamin Franklin once said, “Drive thy business or it will drive thee.” As Doug Peebles, Peebles Creative Group’s founder, worked late one night alone in his office, Franklin’s famous quotation couldn’t have been more applicable. The year was 1997, and his growing to-do list brought him to a logical conclusion, “I need help.”
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Character, competence, confidence, credibility and congruence.

As the saying goes, the greatest gift you can give is the gift of time. In the case of 2005 Business Integrity/Torch Award recipient, More Time For You, it’s not just true…it’s business. Together, Craig and Pam Sedoris own and operate More Time For You, a convenient housecleaning, lawn and handyman service provider to time-crunched consumers and businesses. They admit that there is a unique relationship when a spouse is also your business partner, and that it is much easier when you share the same ethical values.
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Current Workforce Programs

BBB Center for Character Ethics' current workforce programming has been designed to increase marketplace trust by providing practical character ethics and ethical habits training for leaders serving our current workforce.

Recognition Programs
BBB Annual Torch Awards for EthicalEnterprising ℠

The Torch Awards for EthicalEnterprising, a national award-winning “educate & recognize” program, is the premier public recognition of organizations that intentionally pursue the six TRUST! Principles of EthicalEnterprising.  Torch Award alumni benefit from ongoing program support and partner with the BBB to showcase and share their organization’s best practices on the web to inspire others to join the quest for optimal enterprising.

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Research, Resources and Training
BBB EthicalEnterprising Speaker Bureau

The BBB Center for Character Ethics has brought together some of the most highly qualified and inspiring current workforce and future workforce ethics experts who have agreed to provide memorable remarks and keynotes to area service organizations and other leadership venues at no charge to qualified groups.

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BBB EthicalEnterprising Survey Assessment

This employee survey is designed and field-tested for participants to measure their organization’s ethical culture. The EthicalEnterprising Survey Assessment is available for leaders to benchmark and assess their progress leveraging the BBB Center for Character Ethics’ tools.

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BBB EthicalEnterprising Workshops

The EthicalEnterprising Workshops are tutorials that orient organizational leaders to the UncommonSense and EthicalEnterprising frameworks. Participants are coached and encouraged to create an intentional culture at work that improves the culture and readies the organization to qualify as a candidate for the BBB Torch Award.

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BBB In Pursuit of Ethics Training Modules

 “In Pursuit of Ethics” generates in-depth discussion of ethical issues with group audiences. It offers reenactment of real-life situations where the audience sets the direction of the program by making decisions for the characters. With five different scenarios, “In Pursuit of Ethics” addresses ethical dilemmas that anyone might encounter. It is not another boring speech - it is interactive! All options have consequences…and they aren’t always predictable!  

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BBB President's EthicalEnterprising FORUMS

Putting interpersonal and organizational ethics to work in real time is every leader’s daunting mission. Our affordable Basic and Advanced FORUMs are a series of three-hour professionally-facilitated sessions that create a trust-building learning cohort of organizational leaders to more intentionally implement the UncommonSense and EthicalEnterprising frameworks…together.

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BBB Torch Award Clinic

Firms thinking about submitting an entry for the annual Torch Award for EthicalEnterprising will learn how to organize and present their commitment to doing business the right way. Firms will discover tips about participating in the Torch Award process from a team of experts including selection committee judges, BBB staff and past recipients.

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BBB Trust! In a Box...And on the Web

This BBB Center for Character Ethics offers a tool box of quick web-based self-tutorials that help busy leaders reacquaint themselves with our BBB key tools: the UncommonSenseSM Framework for Leadership Character Ethics and the EthicalEnterprising Framework for building organizational trust.

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