How do we challenge and simultaneously support our staff and ourselves to achieve an advanced level of organization-wide competency to lead us to demonstrable improvements in the lives of our staff, our organization, our clients, and our communities? We tend to be good at meeting the challenges of managing our agencies, but difficulties arise around new leadership challenges that may take us out of our comfort zones, necessitating adaptive leadership skills and fresh mindsets. This session will engage us in a versatile and effective process for developing ourselves and our staff as leaders highly capable of meeting the more difficult adaptive change issues facing us today. This process works across myriad of staffing and client strata and develops management competencies in senior and mid-level/supervisors, entry level staff, and clients.
Brad Bogue and Thomas O’Connor have co-created and implemented the presenting system with seven counties’ community corrections agencies in Minnesota and Oregon with great success. Staff have found the process fun, meaningful, and most importantly doable. This is not a “top down” process, but rather a “top supported, bottom up” approach starting with top management learning, practicing, and modeling a developmental coaching system with their mid-level managers who in turn pass it on to their line-staff, who pass it on to clients, who share it with their families and other clients. We will share the story of positive outcomes from our collaboration with these agencies on their journeys and the potential this journey holds for inspiring a new vision of community corrections.
