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                                    Defining (and Changing) Your Organization's Culture, Values, Assumptions and Beliefs

      

                    
          
    Defining (and Changing) Your Organization's Culture, Values, Assumptions and Beliefs
The Corrections Learning Organization
      
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              032739

            "Today, the need to understand effective leadership is greater than ever before: we are living in a smaller, more global environment that is changing at a rapid, often overwhelming, and seemingly unmanageable pace. Accepting the status quo is not an option. High-performance teams require leaders who
              Corrections Innovations Needs Tool
      
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              029764

            "Institutional and community corrections agencies face increasingly complex tasks and challenges today. It is important, therefore, to identify opportunities where changes in tools, technology, practices, or approaches can help agencies respond more effectively to solve problems and mitigate risks
              Resilience in Corrections: A Proactive Approach to Changing Conditions
      
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              028089

            “This white paper describes the issues facing corrections policy and leadership as the impacts of climate change and its related consequences confront departments, agencies, and facilities in coming years. Not only will corrections have to manage the effects of more extreme weather and temperatures
              Mastering Your Role As a Front-Line Effective Supervisor: 10 Keys To Build Towards Success
      
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              027313

            This is an excellent overview of what it takes for you to be a truly successful front-line supervisor. The 10 essential things that you need to do are: realize it begins with you; take the time to get to know your staff; learn what drives your staff; educate and train; build team work; allow

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          Corrections Administrators Must Change Their Leadership Style || Stelter, Leischen, 2016

            Changing Culture -- Part 1**ToersBijns, Carl, 2017****Changing Culture -- Part 2****ToersBijns, Carl, 2017**The Corrections Learning Organization**National Institute of Corrections, 2016**This NIC White Papers explains how you can make your agency into a learning organization by utilizing the work of Peter Senge and following the example of the Blue Angels.DOCUMENT ID: 032739Corrections Administrators Must Change Their Leadership Style**Stelter, Leischen, 2016**Achieving Performance Excellence (APEX)Achieving Performance Excellence (APEX) is a business model that offers a systems approach to change, specifically for correctional organizations. It provides multiple tools and strategies to build sustainable capacity toward higher performance, evidence-based practices, and data-driven decision making. Safety and security is one of the foundational principles of APEX. In addition, this model provides a pathway for agencies to create an organizational culture and a management environment that encourages innovative ideas to improve services, processes, and results.APEX includes these components:The APEX Public Safety ModelThe APEX Guidebook SeriesThe APEX Assessment Tool ProtocolThe APEX Change Agent TrainingThe APEX Public Safety Model includes eight domains that reflect the shared vision and operating values of everyone working in any corrections system. In this model, the Organizational Culture domain is placed at the top to show that it is an umbrella over the organization, how it operates, and what it values. The Leadership, Strategic Planning, Stakeholder Focus, Workforce Focus, and Operations Focus domains rest on a foundation of Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge Management. All domains lead to Results.Corrections Innovations Needs Tool**RAND Corporation, Safety and Justice Program, 2015**Institutional and community corrections agencies face increasingly complex tasks and challenges today. It is important, therefore, to identify opportunities where changes in tools, technology, practices, or approaches can help agencies respond more effectively to solve problems and mitigate risks in their role to protect the public.Document ID: 029764Resilience in Corrections: A Proactive Approach to Changing Conditions**Connelly, Michael, and David Feldman, 2014**This white paper describes the issues facing corrections policy and leadership as the impacts of climate change and its related consequences confront departments, agencies, and facilities in coming years.Document ID: 028089Mastering Your Role As a Front-Line Effective Supervisor: 10 Keys To Build Towards Success**McDonald, Dalonika, 2013**This is an excellent overview of what it takes for you to be a truly successful front-line supervisor.Document ID: 027313Corrections Staff Well-Being Programs -- To Implement or Not?**Spinaris, Caterina, Gregory Morton, and Mike Denhof, 2012**This article examines issues that correctional agencies might consider when discussing the implementation of programs designed to prevent and remediate Corrections Fatigue and related organizational climate and staff well-being issues.
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