How to put the Principles into Practice

How can individuals and organisations live the principles?

The Principles were written for those who work in business. They provide a sound and robust framework within which business can be conducted honourably and responsibly. At the same time they help to develop personal values and standards.

For many of us, reading and studying the Principles is easy. The greater challenge is to apply them in our working lives.

This Guide aims to focus wholly on HOW individuals and organisations can do this.

The challenge of using Principles

The challenge is for each of us to examine how we conduct our personal and business life and consider how we can improve in some way.

The Guide can help, as we first look at our lives and assess the degree to which we demonstrate the Principles in what we do and then to compare this with what we aspire to in the future.

In doing this we are developing a map of the ‘gaps’ between where we are today and where we would like to get to. This then leaves us to consider how we can go about closing the gaps.