ZIPPER ETHICS
WHAT IS
ZIPPER ETHICS?
ZIPPER ETHICS is a method for for developing principles that enable individuals, teams, communities, and organizations to align their actions with their values. ZIPPER ETHICS makes ethics approachable, accessible, and sustainable, with built-in tools for long-term practice.
Anyone can start developing their ethics principles at any time! Check out the workshop schedule [coming soon], reach out about facilitated events, or keep scrolling to learn more.
Every team has actions and values, but those actions and values are not necessarily aligned.
Ethics are the principles that keep a team’s values aligned with their actions. They are the zipper between values and actions.
DEFINITIONS
team (noun)
Any group of individuals working together.
actions (pl. noun)
What individuals do; steps taken toward goals.
high-performing team (pl. noun)
A group of individuals who have aligned their actions with their values to work together toward a shared purpose.
values (pl. noun)
Fundamental beliefs that underlie how individuals want to act or exist.
ethics (pl. noun)
Principles that, when upheld, ensure that an entity’s actions align with its values.
WHY
ZIPPER ETHICS?
Every team, organization, and individual needs ethics. Without ethics, teams lack stability and resilience, and cannot perform at their highest potentials. Team members cannot trust that the team will be able to uphold their personal values, and therefore often feel challenged to both do their best work and feel loyalty to their team. When employees do ultimately encounter ethics misalignment, or reach their limit with ongoing misalignment, they are increasingly likely to leave their teams and organizations.
ZIPPER ETHICS is a simple and elegant approach to developing ethics principles that anyone, or any team, can try.
