Develop and discuss actual or potential ethical dilemmas with colleagues and mentors. It is especially helpful to work through scenarios that involve feeling pressured by upper-level administrators to...

Develop and discuss actual or potential ethical dilemmas with colleagues and mentors. It is especially helpful to work through scenarios that involve feeling pressured by upper-level administrators to make exceptions or act in less principled ways. Doing the right thing in these types of situation requires risk-taking, quick analysis, and fundamental courage that take time to develop. Without practice, it is all too easy to simply make the exception because of the power of the person asking or to indignantly confront the administrator making the request. Frequent analysis discussions about how to respond to troublesome hypothetical dilemmas are essential to enhancing one’s ethical fitness.