2. 1 Po Collins and Bill Kaplan NCMA Board of Directors 19 Jan 2013 10:15-11:00 Ethical Principles as Your Business Foundation

3. 2 What is Ethics? Answer: Doing the right thing even when no one is looking.

4. 3 What is Ethics at the Chapter Level? Answer: 1.The baseline of your Chapter’s operations 2.Sound business judgment and common sense

5. 4 Servant Leadership What is “servant leadership?” –Servant leadership is both a leadership philosophy and set of leadership practices. Traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise of power by one at the “top of the pyramid.” By comparison, the servant-leader shares power, puts the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible. Is this a (ethical) requirement for a chapter leader? Why or why not?

6. 5 Contract Management Code of Ethics What is it? Have you seen it? What does your chapter have for ethical operating principles? How did you develop them? Did your chapter leadership sign them?

7. 6 Chapter Leadership Breakdowns in Your Code of Ethics How can they happen? Have you had one? How did you address/resolve it?

8. 7 Ethics Challenges Procedures to address challenges Ethical vs. legal challenges Do you know when to seek legal counsel? Do you have legal counsel to contact?

9. 8 Operating in the Gray Areas Be thoughtful Be introspective Be mindful of short term and long term outcomes of your decisions Understand the public perception of your actions Be transparent Be a leader!

10. 9 Examples to Keep Ethics in Focus in Your Chapter Messaging Each meeting have a volunteer take one of the 7 elements of the NCMA Code of Ethics and lead a 5 minute discussion of that element and its meaning – personally and chapter Speaker topics: Unique ethical standards required for doing business with the Federal Government vs. private sector The key elements of FAR 52.203-13, Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Compliance -- compliance programs and audit compliance The Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct (known as DII). Website: http://www.dii.org/http://www.dii.org/ Discuss a recent ethical breach in the news and what it means to the profession Feature ethics-related table topics

11. 10 How Do You Know that You Are Making the Right (Ethical) Decisions? If you can you answer the following question: Am I proud to tell my family and friends what I did today?

12. 11 Sign the Code of Ethics