Leadership

The Justice Clearinghouse covers the topic of Leadership on a regular basis: through the webinars we hold, the articles we write, as well as the articles we curate from other respected sources.

Begin or enhance your knowledge so that you can grow your leadership (and followership!) abilities by reviewing some of the information below.

Upcoming Webinars

09 / 28 / 2023

Managing as a Coach: Shifting Your Mindset

Managers' and trainers' overall duty is to develop their colleagues and students. Often employee development is wrapped up in "what or how." This is due to the criminal justice profession [...]

09 / 28 / 2023

What to Do about Conflicts with Rodents: Addressing rodent conflicts in your community and in your facility

Conflicts with rodents like rats and mice are common in our communities, and they can also present issues in our own facilities. Join us for this webinar as we explore [...]

10 / 03 / 2023

Management by Committee: How to Improve Engagement, Inclusivity, and Retention without Breaking Your Budget

According to researchers, Toxic Work Culture is 10x more important than pay in predicting turnover. In an era of unprecedented staffing shortages across the industry, agencies must step up to [...]

10 / 10 / 2023

Burnout and Resilience: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know

Trauma is a given if you work in criminal justice, in suspects, defendants, victims, witnesses, and even colleagues. A better understanding of the effects of trauma and how to mitigate [...]

Joe Wheeler

10 / 11 / 2023

Partner Webinar: Mastering the Implementation of Court Technology in the Criminal Justice Sector

This webinar will explore the challenges and best practices when implementing enterprise court technology within the criminal justice system. The focus will be on effectively translating strategic plans into successful [...]

Tamara Lyn

10 / 19 / 2023

Supervisor as Coach: Lead Your Direct Reports to Their Own Solutions for Performance and Motivation Issues

Do your direct reports struggle to reclaim the drive that attracted them to law enforcement and public safety? Do they neglect the self-care that would keep them focused, physically fit, [...]

10 / 26 / 2023

Controlling Your Emotions Keeps YOU out of Jail

To learn to deal with anger, you need to recognize your anger chain. What is it that sets you off on your emotional spiral? Is it any surprise, anger is [...]

10 / 26 / 2023

Navigating Negativity: Strategies for Managing Trolls and Online Critics

Social media can be a place for both connection and conflict, and public service organizations are often the target of critical commentary online. While showing up to the virtual conversation [...]

11 / 02 / 2023

Surviving a Social Media Hack

What would you do if your agency’s official social media accounts got hacked? How would you let your community know? How would you get control back? And what can [...]

Al Cobos

11 / 07 / 2023

Executive Communication: Getting Your People to Understand Your Message

As an effective leader and communicator, we need to have our employees understand the intent of our message and why it is important to the organization. We can have the [...]

Maria Valdovinos Olson

Karen Amendola

11 / 07 / 2023

Organizational Stress and Officer Wellness

Organizational stress generally refers to the organizational context in which officers work and is differentiated from operational stress (occupational dangers and exposure to risk). Examples of organizational stressors in policing [...]

Brenda Dietzman

11 / 09 / 2023

Growing the Leaders You Need for the Future

Does your organization have a weak bench? Have you looked up and down your organization and questioned where your future leaders are at? Well, great news! They are working for [...]

11 / 16 / 2023

Call to Action: Lifting Each Other Up to Rise Together

Over the past couple of years, I have noticed a huge shift in the attitudes of the amazing women of 911. We are valuing ourselves out loud, we began to champion [...]

11 / 30 / 2023

Career Conversation: Create a Career Path that Aligns with Your Values

Do you remember the values and motivations that attracted you to a career in law enforcement and public safety? Would you reignite your enthusiasm and jump-start your career if you [...]

12 / 12 / 2023

Achieving Excellence in Criminal Justice Agencies

In this course, we will examine what excellence entails. We will look at various ways to achieve excellence. We will discuss the importance of striving for excellence. Other [...]

12 / 14 / 2023

The Law Enforcement Knowledge Lab: A Critical Resource for Your Agency

With over 18,000 police agencies throughout the United States, it is difficult to learn about effective programs, policies, and procedures that may help a jurisdiction address crime in a manner that [...]

Tina Buneta

01 / 17 / 2024

Reinvention from the Inside Out: A 9-1-1 Success Story

Since its inception, the 9-1-1 profession has struggled to develop and sustain its sense of identity, purpose, and potential. For many years, 9-1-1 centers have historically existed under [...]

Katharine Manning

01 / 18 / 2024

Empathy and Inclusion

Empathy is a workplace superpower. It forges bonds, builds inclusion, reduces turnover, and enhances long-lasting engagement and productivity. This webinar provides the skills to build empathy at work for better [...]

Diana Knapp

01 / 23 / 2024

Building a Culture of Customer Service

Set your staff up for success each time they interact with members of the community and other stakeholders by creating a work culture focused on good customer service. This webinar [...]

01 / 25 / 2024

In Defense of the Police

In this webinar, we will discuss current cutting-edge issues involving many facets of law enforcement and criminal justice in general. We will examine styles of policing along with their pros [...]

Halcyon Frank

02 / 15 / 2024

Conquering Complacency

Complacency is a stealthy foe that can negatively impact safety and prevent us from taking action when needed. You will learn how to recognize warning signs of complacency in yourself [...]

02 / 29 / 2024

Identifying Roles and Responsibilities of Victim Services in Law Enforcement Agencies

Law enforcement-based victim services are most effectively incorporated into agencies when clear roles and responsibilities are established and understood. These depend on models of service provision and partnerships – both internal [...]

03 / 07 / 2024

The Art of Curious Leadership

Are you in an organization that hasn’t changed the way it operates for a long time? Are new ideas shot down almost instantly? Leaders who are curious make organizations [...]

Barbara L. Gould

03 / 12 / 2024

Ask, Tell, Make: Updated Skills for the 21st Century Officer

For decades, Corrections and law enforcement officers have been trained under the model of ask, tell, make. Unfortunately, this model excludes the importance of what to ask, how to ask, [...]

04 / 04 / 2024

Can We Do That? How to Ensure You Have a Solid Social Media Policy

Social media policies can and should cover the breadth of what social media can do for your agency, both in a professional and in a personal capacity. Getting detailed in [...]

Gary Cunningham

Cheryl Banks

04 / 09 / 2024

Building Relationships and Collaborating with Other Agencies: What Advocates and Service Providers Need to Know

In this presentation, we will identify the multiple different agencies that survivors and clients come in contact with. The importance of collaboration between agencies will be addressed and ways to [...]

Diana Knapp

04 / 11 / 2024

Staff Recognition for Budget-Conscious Agencies

Rewarding employees doesn't have to be expensive to be effective. As the cost of services and supplies for your workplace increases, public budgets tend to remain static. This calls on [...]

04 / 18 / 2024

Understanding and Implementing Victim Services Documentation Practices in Law Enforcement Agencies

Effective incorporation of law enforcement-based victim services depends upon a clear understanding of jurisdiction-specific statutes related to the role of victim services personnel. Documentation of interactions with victims and co-victims [...]

Danielle Frane

05 / 14 / 2024

Is PREA Part of Your Culture — or Are You Just Rolling the Dice?

This webinar will assist the corrections executives responsible for the sexual safety of their facilities. Are you reiterating zero tolerance towards sexual abuse and sexual harassment to staff and offenders [...]

Melissa Alterio

Brad Flanagan

Cammie Haney

Halcyon Frank

05 / 16 / 2024

Facing the Challenges: Addressing 911 Staffing and Retention

Last summer, groundbreaking survey results confirmed what most of us, at least at a gut level, already knew: 911 Call Centers around the country are struggling: Struggling to find and keep [...]

05 / 30 / 2024

Assessing Readiness for Incorporating Victim Services into Law Enforcement Agencies

Agency readiness is a crucial component of successfully incorporating law enforcement-based victim services. Agency personnel must clearly understand their expected contributions and associated policies for their assigned responsibilities. Effectively preparing [...]

Halcyon Frank

06 / 06 / 2024

Positive Vibes Only: Combatting Negativity with Empowerment

During this webinar, we’ll will tackle the issue of negativity head-on and equip you with practical strategies to promote a culture of positivity and empowerment. Negativity can spread like [...]

Barbara L. Gould

06 / 25 / 2024

Communications and Boundaries

We all know people in our lives who we wish we could be more like when communicating in difficult situations at work and home. But why do they communicate better [...]

07 / 16 / 2024

Ask Me Anything: Managing the Younger Generation – Generation Z

Have you ever been confused about what works and what doesn’t with the younger generations? Have you ever wondered what motivates them or questioned their work ethic? Every generation [...]

Tina DeCola

07 / 18 / 2024

Helping Hands: The importance of Peer Support for 911

Taking care of our community and our crews is what we do - it's what we excel at! But who's taking care of us? We will discuss ways to set [...]

Amy Durall

Caroline Huffaker

08 / 01 / 2024

Strategic Planning for Sustainable Victim Services

Successful incorporation of law enforcement-based victim services is contingent upon a commitment to ongoing strategic planning. Effective agency communication channels, comprehensive and relevant policies, and staff development are key contributors [...]

Diana Knapp

08 / 08 / 2024

Creating Organizational Culture Change

In 2016 and 2017, the Jackson County Detention Center was making national headlines for excessive use of force, federal indictments of officers for trafficking in contraband, assaults on staff, and facility conditions [...]

Halcyon Frank

09 / 10 / 2024

Unlocking the Potential: Understanding How Adults Learn for Public Safety Trainers

Calling all CTOs, FTO, preceptors, and trainers by any other titles. Are you looking to elevate your training and maximize the impact on adult learners? In this webinar, we will [...]

Amy Durall

Caroline Huffaker

09 / 24 / 2024

Essential Training for Effective Incorporation of Victim Services

Law enforcement-based victim services can highlight personnel differences in ethical approaches and decision-making around shared responsibilities. Comprehensive and ongoing training can amplify agency personnel’s confidence when carrying out assigned [...]

John Griffin

What to Do about Conflicts with Rodents

Conflicts with rodents like rats and mice are common in our communities, and they can also present issues in our own facilities. Join us for this webinar as we explore [...]

Thomas Dworak

Managing as a Coach: Shifting Your Mindset

Managers' and trainers' overall duty is to develop their colleagues and students. Often employee development is wrapped up in "what or how." This is due to the criminal justice profession [...]

Michael Menefee

Understanding the Impact of Virtual Meetings with People on Probation

As the pandemic continues in many locations, community supervision agencies are still balancing in-person versus virtual contacts. While traditional probation relies on face-to-face contacts, probation departments took a leap in [...]

Darren Ivey

Cultivating Wellness in Your Organization: Trauma Informed Leadership and Other Helpful Ideas

The first responder career field is one that is more likely to be exposed to trauma compared to other professions. Without tools and guidance on how to navigate these traumatic [...]

Chris Smith

ADA Basics for Criminal Justice Professionals: What is the ADA and why does it matter?

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life. One of the things it encompasses [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

The Performance Management Process: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Performance management is typically seen as that once-a-year event that staff and their direct superiors participate in to gauge employee productivity for compliance purposes. This webinar aims to reframe performance [...]

David Bond

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

Rockin’ the Leadership Role: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Leadership isn’t always a walk in the park. The people being led may have different work styles, may be demotivated, or not always do as they’re told. Situations [...]

Obed Magny

A Deeper Dive into Organizational Culture: What It Is, How to Identify It, and Change It for the Better

We’ve all heard the expression, “Culture eats policy for breakfast.” The question that is rarely discussed is, why is that? In this ever-changing world of public safety, knowing how [...]

Rhonda Glover Reese

Making the Roadmap Visible: Ascending to Leadership Roles in Law Enforcement

Law enforcement officers have felt the frustration of trying to achieve the next level within their careers. The steps in getting to that next level can be murky and exhausting, [...]

Rosanne Richeal

Jonni Redick

Executive Coaching for Women: Improve Leader Performance

Women are underrepresented in leadership roles in public safety and criminal justice professions. Various campaigns, policies, and programs are being implemented in an effort to change this. Executive coaching is [...]

Ray Nash

Building Rapport: The Critical Interview Skill That Is Often Overlooked, But Cannot Be Overemphasized

When it comes to interviewing in the law enforcement setting, rapport-building tends to be overlooked. Building rapport is crucial to extract as much information from suspects, victims, or witnesses. This [...]

Halcyon Frank

How Effective is Your Feedback? Lessons for Dispatch and Criminal Justice Professionals

Mastering the art of giving and receiving feedback in the professional realm empowers individuals and teams to elevate their performance and drive collective success. Unfortunately, not everyone is adept at [...]

Diana Knapp

In Custody Deaths: Beyond Case Closed

Suicide is the leading cause of death in jails and prisons in the United States. Those working in jails and prisons are also highly likely to be exposed to such [...]

Jackalyn Rainosek

Overcoming the Barriers to Change: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

If there’s anything certain in life – it is change, and yet we all still struggle through it. This is the third installment of Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek’s webinar series [...]

Kent Shaw

Deconfliction: Officer Safety and Investigative Coordination

Event deconfliction is crucial for officer safety, preventing operational clashes, and avoiding overlap in investigations. Thus, law enforcement professionals must learn the tools and develop policies to adopt this crucial [...]

Linda Ahrens

Helping Hidden Heroes: Chaplains for Correctional Staff — Emotions, Health, and Retention

Chaplains have been significantly utilized in the corrections setting to provide inmates with support and guidance to set them up for success. Correctional staff, being exposed to the same environment [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Confident Female Leadership

Women may "play small" due to societal biases and gender stereotypes. In the workplace, this creates adverse impacts on women’s career trajectory and confidence which hinders women’s professional [...]

Jim Martin

Keeping Your Detention Facilities Out of the Ditches and on the Right Path

In the corrections and correctional health care setting, outcomes are important – for the inmates, the staff members, and the facility as a whole. Jim Martin has identified the Pathway to [...]

John Shuford

15 Proven Ways to Improve Staff Morale at No Additional Cost

Organizational stressors were found to have significantly impacted staff morale, employee satisfaction, and retention across industries. In law enforcement and corrections where job duties are demanding and stressful, to say [...]

Lucy Watts

Jim Pingle

Partner Webinar: Streamlining Public Safety and Justice Processes: Enhancing Data-Driven Decision Making

Data plays a crucial role in improving justice outcomes in the ever-evolving public service landscape. However, effectively utilizing this data requires optimized business processes, advanced analytics, and strategic data integration. [...]

Theresa Magyera

Ken Clary

Maureen Q. McGough

Building a Culture of Inclusion in Policing: A Case for 30×30

The 30x30 Initiative is a program aimed at increasing the representation of women in law enforcement agencies to a minimum of 30% by the year 2030. It recognizes the underrepresentation of women [...]

Jonni Redick

The Five Best Ways to Manage Talent

Given the recruitment and retention issues law enforcement organizations are facing, it makes sense to focus on talent management. After all, when the workforce is happy, they’re more likely [...]

Diana Knapp

Boomers, Slackers and Snowflakes: Building a Multi-Generational Leadership Team

Having a multi-generational group of decision-makers at the table in organizations brings several benefits. Diverse perspectives and experiences result in more comprehensive and well-rounded decision-making that promotes innovation, adaptability and [...]

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

Be the Leader You Wish You Had

Discerning what a good leader looks like versus a bad one comes from our own experience of being led as a follower. When the time comes that we’re expected [...]

Katharine Manning

Trauma-Informed Leadership: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Trauma-informed leadership is crucial in organizations. Trauma-informed leaders create a supportive environment that prioritizes understanding, empathy, and healing, fostering better outcomes for both staff and the individuals they serve. This [...]

Jackalyn Rainosek

Change is a Process, not an Event: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Change is inevitable, yet many individuals and organizations struggle to embrace it fully. In this insightful session, that is part of the Change webinar series, we delve into the various [...]

Al Cobos

Communicating with Executives, Supervisors, and Managers: Selling Your Ideas Up the Chain of Command

Managing up refers to managing an employee’s relationship with their supervisor or manager by adapting a work approach that caters to the supervisors’ needs through communication. This session focuses [...]

Samantha Collins

Tom O'Connor

The Probation and Parole Officer as an Effective Coach

This is a follow-up to Brian Lovins’ webinar on “Referee or Coach: How a Coaching Identity May Just Save Probation”. Coaching has been established as a valuable skill when managing [...]

Michael Turkot

Ken Morris

Jennifer DeFrees

Benjamin H. Sites

Jesse Loomis

Partner Webinar: Transitioning to Online Mortgage Foreclosure Sales: A Sheriff’s Perspective

As marketplaces trend more and more towards online purchasing, many sheriff’s offices across the US are exploring virtual alternatives to in-person auctions conducted at the local courthouse, citing the [...]

Thomas Dworak

Decision Making and OODA Loop

While the focus is on tactics such as de-escalation, physical techniques, and new control weapons, little training is applied to the area of decision-making. Criminal justice professionals work in an [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Organizational Stress – From the Administrative Perspective

This webinar is the second installment of a two-part webinar series on organizational stress. The first part zeroed in on organizational stress from the frontline’s perspective but this time [...]

Diana Knapp

Responding to the Urban Jail in Crisis

The Jackson County Detention Center in Kansas City went through some tough times between 2014 and 2017 as the facility and its leadership were hounded with issues and acknowledged that they were [...]

Jacqueline Drew

Sherri Martin

What Police Officers Want: Consulting the Source

A large-scale survey was conducted by the National Fraternal Order of Police partnered with Griffith University to capture the state of the law enforcement profession through the eyes of the [...]

Erik Fritsvold

Leadership Out of Your Comfort Zone: Best Practices and Proven Strategies for Success

Have you ever come into an organization as an outsider and assumed a leadership position in an entity where you don’t have much subject matter expertise as those that [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Organizational Stress – From the Frontline Perspective

Helping professionals cite the major source of workplace stress as being organizational in nature rather than operational stress. This suggests that organizations, the leadership, and even the frontline workers can [...]

Ashley Heiberger

Use of Force: Improved Performance through an Evidence-Based Approach

Law drives policy, policy drives training, and training should lead to improved performance. This is the premise for this webinar. And for this transitive law to effectively play out, Ashley [...]

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

Achieving Effective Outcomes through Staff Communication

Effective communication is crucial in achieving successful outcomes at work, whatever the industry may be. Conflicts arise, employees become dissatisfied, and organizational goals aren’t met because effective communication isn’[...]

Don Redmond

Avoiding Ethical Landmines: Gaining Acceptance of Your UAS Drone Program

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) better known as drones are being adopted by more and more public safety agencies to improve first responder service. But given that it is still a [...]

Ed Pallas

Understanding Followership: The Other Side of Leadership

The idea of being a follower may conjure thoughts of sheep being herded, blindly obeying what is being asked of them. However, effective followers are required for there to be [...]

Bobby Kipper

Establishing Organizational Success: Understanding the EAC Factor for Criminal Justice Organizations

What does it take to establish organizational success? According to Bobby Kipper, it takes three components. The EAC factor which stands for expectations, accountability, and consequences help ensure success for [...]

Katie Nelson

Kate Kimble

Navigating the Pathway to Public Trust

Various strategies have been developed in the realm of policing when it comes to improving the performance as well as the reputation of the profession. One approach that is being [...]

Sara Weston

The Power of Your Passion

A job in the public safety field is demanding, stressful, and even traumatic. Compounded with other responsibilities individuals have in other aspects of our lives, it is easy to get [...]

Al Cobos

Psychological Safety: Creating a Culture of Trust on Your Team and Organization

Leaders want their organizations to be productive and efficient. Relying on compliance based on authority, however, isn’t the best strategy. More and more leaders are acknowledging the importance of [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Understanding Public Safety Professionalism

The term professional is being used in different ways in the English language which impacts its scope and limitation. Are those working in public safety considered professionals? What does it [...]

Katharine Manning

Empathetic Leadership: Building a Culture of Trust

When thinking about leadership traits – things like critical thinking and decision-making tend to come up. However, the most important but underrated leadership trait is actually empathy. Leaders who demonstrate empathy [...]

Howard Banks

Ken Clary

Creating a Culture of Inclusiveness: Recruiting a Diverse Workforce

Issues with recruitment and retention brought about by a plethora of factors are fueling the staffing crisis in law enforcement. With a much smaller applicant pool than ever before and [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Leadership Reset: Setting Goals for the New Year

As the new year rolls in, we often try to figure out ways to make it a little better than the previous one. People gravitate towards new year’s resolutions [...]

Elizabeth A. Dunn

Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner

John T. Schultz

Town and Gown: Partnering with Academic Organizations to Leverage Additional Resources

Collaborations in criminal justice and emergency management have been proven to be a force multiplier, especially when the partnerships are with fields that espouse an evidence-based approach. Typically, the fields [...]

Sara Weston

Empowered People Empower 911

The helping profession at times may feel like a thankless job, particularly for telecommunicators and dispatchers who are treated as mere voices and hands as they are not seen in [...]

Margaret M. Crowley

The Top 10 Techniques for Dealing with Conflict

One of the things that most people tend to avoid and have problem dealing with is conflict. The reason? A lot of us are not trained how to handle it [...]

Jonni Redick

I’m Promoted, Now What? Things to Consider from Day 1 to 365

When looking to promote, the role doesn’t always come with a manual. The job description may provide guidelines and requirements which may be too general or vague, but the [...]

Tira Hubbard

Brenda Dietzman

Wendy Rich-Goldschmidt

Women in Leadership – A Discussion about Opportunities, Hurdles, and Benefits

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry presents obstacles that can either prevent you from going further in your career or fuel you to pursue your goals one by one. [...]

Bobby Kipper

Building Performance: Understanding the EAC Factors for Justice Professionals

How three basic words can transform your overall performance and empower individuals to reach their short and long-term goals. Participants will learn that self-expectations, accountability, and consequences are three action [...]

Ed Pallas

Buddy to Boss: Going From Supervisor to Superhero

Promotions are rarely a walk in the park. The path to it may be full of obstacles in form of screeners or assessments. And once the coveted spot is attained, [...]

Jonni Redick

Assessment Center and Oral Panel Interview Preparation

It is expected of any person to want to improve one’s self and progress in life. In the professional setting, this looks like training, mastery of skills, and promotion. [...]

Ken Clary

Creating Positive Change: An Approach to Leadership in Tumultuous Times

Making changes isn’t the easiest thing to do as an individual, moreso for organizations. But when the status quo is just so abysmal, change is the only way to [...]

Kathy Murphy

Trusting Your Own Personal GPS to Solve Problems

Almost everyone has found themselves amidst a decision questioning our judgment and not quite knowing what step to take. What does it take to make the best decision at the [...]

Obed Magny

The Impact of Leadership on Organizational Culture and Morale

Given the issues and changes that the policing profession is facing, leaders are now looking for ways to keep their people engaged and satisfied in their jobs. How to achieve [...]

Nick Spencer

High Risk Terminations: Policies, Procedures and Planning

Workplace violence is one of the most horrific incidents in society today. Who commits such acts? Agitated individuals who are recently terminated or are displaying high-risk behavior motivated by different [...]

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

Advanced Strategies for Dealing with Challenging Staff Members

This is the third installment of Dr. Ed Sherman’s webinar series. The first part tackled the Leader’s Dilemma and how leaders can balance the interests of employees and [...]

Nicole Fredricks Jackson

Micro-Habits: Navigating the Intersection of Work and Life

We all want to be better off in life – be it physically, emotionally, or professionally. But any improvement entails changes – and this is typically where the difficulty comes in because [...]

Al Cobos

Maslow in the Workplace: Creating Employees Who Contribute and Are Engaged

Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs has been used for decades to understand human requirements and motivations in life. The model can also be utilized to evaluate and subsequently drive performance [...]

Bobby Kipper

Scott Geller, PhD

Actively Caring for People: Seven Principles for Criminal Justice Organizations

With the barrage of issues hounding law enforcement and related justice professions, different approaches utilizing complicated models, advanced skills, and innovations are implemented in response. But at the heart of [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Women in Leadership

Men and women are different – but it doesn’t make one better than the other. Each one has strengths that can be harnessed and weaknesses that can be improved. This [...]

Dennis Nayor

Career Survival within the Administrative Ranks of Policing (Part 2)

This is the second part of the webinar series on Career Survival with the Administrative Ranks in Policing. The first installment introduced the components to promote career survival that leaders [...]

Jackalyn Rainosek

Pain Comes from Resistance to Change: The Ways to Embrace Change

Change isn’t always easy especially when it isn’t something that we internally decide upon and instead brought about by external forces. Change, however, is also inevitable and something [...]

Dennis Nayor

Career Survival within the Administrative Ranks of Policing (Part 1)

Amidst all the controversies and public scrutiny, a job in the law enforcement profession isn’t as appealing as it used to be. But there still are a handful of [...]

Sheryl Victorian

Police Accountability: Increasing Supervisor Expectations in Identifying and Responding to Slippery Slope Behaviors

In a time where law enforcement actions and decisions are scrutinized in great detail by the public, everyone within the profession is expected to do their share to foster trust [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Leading at Any Level

True leadership does not rely on titles. It is often observed in day-to-day situations where people step up outside of their roles and serve as informal leaders to ensure successful [...]

Marc Hildebrand

Generating Momentum: How to Create Change in Any Part of Your Life — and Protect It at All Costs!

Looking to make a change but finding yourself not just quite going all in or unable to sustain it? What you just might need to truly make things happen for [...]

Michael Levin

Owning Your Life’s Journey: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

If you lost one parent after another just after graduating from highschool, how do you think your life would’ve turn out to be? Would you have dwelled in your [...]

Obed Magny

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Criminal Justice Professionals

Leaders in the criminal justice field need to be emotionally intelligent, now more than ever. Being a leader who understands and relates to people from various backgrounds and all walks [...]

Halcyon Frank

Leading from All Levels

There is more to leadership than just the title and prestige of the people. In its truest essence, leadership does not require a title but entails selflessness and perseverance to [...]

Justin Erikson

Applying the Core Value Index Mapping for Criminal Justice Agencies

Various approaches have been employed by different law enforcement agencies to rectify the damage of a few but too publicized incidents and rebuild trust within the communities they serve. Most [...]

Wendy Hummell

Creating a Culture of Wellness – Increase Retention, Morale, and Employee Health by Infusing Wellness into Your Agency

The need to support law enforcement officers’ holistic wellness given the stressful, if not downright traumatic nature of the job, is being recognized by more and more agencies and even [...]

Elizabeth A. Dunn

Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner

John T. Schultz

Extreme Weather Events: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know

Criminal justice professionals are subjected to public scrutiny these days. Despite being overburdened already on any regular day, they are still the ones on the frontlines responding when critical events [...]

Al Cobos

Motivational Conversation: Creating Questions to Move People along an Intended Path while Building Relationships

For criminal justice agencies, challenges are more of the status quo than the extra-ordinary circumstance. These become even more challenging when people must be steered into an intended path, but [...]

Thomas Dworak

Adaptive Leadership: Creating “Sticky” Organizational Culture

Leaders shape the outcomes of the agencies they direct and the job satisfaction of the people they manage. Given the current staffing crisis in the criminal justice profession, the role [...]

Margaret M. Crowley

Crime and Punishment: Exploring Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

Apart from the fact that corrections facilities are over capacity, it is also acknowledged that existing sentencing procedures and outcomes don’t always address the root of the problem. Alternative [...]

Renée J. Mitchell, J.D., Ph.D.

Mental Models: A Method for Attacking any Policing Problem

Numerous programs are being implemented in law enforcement in attempt to combat existing problems that plague the community – some of which achieve the goals they set out, some not quite. [...]

Chris Jones

Enhancing Teamwork and Strengthening Organizational Culture Using Myers Briggs Personality Understanding

Personality assessments are a great way to better understand oneself in the people around us. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the most widely used personality assessments across [...]

Jonathan Aronie

Travis Taniguchi

Gary Cordner

Active Bystandership: Applications for Criminal Justice Agencies

Issues are inundating the law enforcement profession as it relates to how officers interact who are the members of the community they have sworn to serve. There is much public [...]

Mandy Nice

Joe Dulla

Human Performance Optimization: Caring for your Team

Law enforcement is experiencing obstacles at both ends of the employee life cycle - the profession is no longer as appealing as it used to be and law enforcement professionals [...]

Jonni Redick

How Women Rise: Breaking and Creating New Habits for Success (Part 2)

This is the second installment of Jonni Redick’s two-part webinar series How Women Rise. The first part looked into perfectionism, people-pleasing, waiting for others to see you, social relationships [...]

Thomas Dworak

Lateral-Hire Onboarding: Field Training the Experienced Officer

Law enforcement is struggling with staffing issues. First, the profession is no longer seen as an appealing option for those looking to start a career. Second, a slew of law [...]

Wendy Hummell

Blueprint for Resilience – How to Reverse Engineer Burnout & Compassion Fatigue

People often compartmentalize the symptoms that they are experiencing into physical, mental, or emotional. What we often miss is the interrelations of these symptoms with one another. Wendy Hummel leads [...]

Jonni Redick

How Women Rise: Breaking and Creating New Habits for Success (Part 1)

In this day and age where equality between genders is highly upheld in society, there is still an apparent gap in terms of the number of women working in the [...]

Al Cobos

Alternative Discipline: How to Keep Your Employees Viable after They Have Gone through the Discipline Process

Implementing disciplinary measures in the workplace are performance and accountability mechanisms to ensure that the workforce is performing up to a certain standard and are not violating any standards or [...]

Tracy Ertl

Protecting Interpersonal Work Relationships: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Bullies don't just exist in school halls and schoolyards. Just when we think we’re done and over with with that phase, we find ourselves dealing with the same thing [...]

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

Ask Me Anything: About Dealing with Challenging Staff Members

This session is a supplement to the Dealing With Challenging Staff Members webinar. This time around, Ed Sherman will be answering the many questions webinar participants have sent in related [...]

Bobby Kipper

Performance Driven Thinking for First Responders (Part 2)

This is the second installment of the Performance Driven Thinking webinar series. The first part defined performance-driven thinking and discussed its components, contributing factors, the type of goals, how entitlement [...]

Lori R. Todd

Managing Difficult Volunteers: How and When to Let Volunteers Go

Animal welfare agencies, as well as other branches of the criminal justice profession, can all attest to the challenges when it comes to resource allocation, especially manpower. Because of this, [...]

Bobby Kipper

Performance Driven Thinking for First Responders (Part 1)

Have you ever wanted to achieve something but are not quite sure how to get from point A to point B? Or are you amidst achieving your goals but are [...]

Chris Jones

Leading through Organizational Transformation: Change Management Strategies

Change isn't easy – be it at the individual level and even more for organizations that have multiple moving parts, with complex systems policies and protocols that will be impacted by [...]

Wendy Hummell

Coach or Critic? Implement Strategies to Overcome Negativity Bias and Limiting Beliefs

Ever felt like you want to achieve something only to feel limited by your own thoughts and beliefs? Don't worry because you're not the only one. You see, humans are [...]

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

Dealing with Challenging Staff Members

Anyone who has been put in charge of a group of people is well aware that there will always be someone or a few who will make the job a [...]

Tracy Ertl

Stress Relief and Communications

Stressors are inevitable in the world we're living in today. This is especially true for helping professions where all of the incoming information tend to be inherently negative. The value [...]

Thomas Dworak

Emotional Intelligence and Making Better Decisions

We can all agree that decision making can be made more effective if there is some degree of rationality and emotional intelligence employed. Thomas Dworak unpacks emotional intelligence, decision-making, and [...]

Al Cobos

Decision-Making: Influences, Emotions, and “Facts” that Direct our Decisions

For most, the concept of decision-making involves deliberating various factors religiously to come up with a logical decision. For those working as law enforcement, first responders, and in other professions [...]

Marc Hildebrand

The Success Equation: The formula to help you master any area of your life FAST!

So many things to do, so little time. We all have goals for different aspects of our lives that it just seems impossible to accomplish all at the same time. [...]

Rich Martin

Practicing Procedural Justice Internally to Foster its Practice Externally

Law enforcement personnel are stressed and leaving their jobs, and very few are interested in joining it to fill the positions. Meanwhile, the public questions law enforcement’s authority and [...]

Jenn Markey

Martin Hoff

Partner Webinar: A Root of Trust for Seamless and Secure Identities, IDs and Credentials

Trusted identities, credentials, and transactions of employees and citizens are more important now than ever. Hybrid work environments are becoming the norm, financial and personal information-based transactions are happening more [...]

Scott Giacoppo

Problem Oriented Response For Animal Welfare Agencies

The animal services profession has grown so much. From being the “dog catchers” of the early days, Animal Control Officers are now professionals responsible for public safety. Unfortunately, old habits [...]

Shawn Williams

Confidence in Training for Law Enforcement Leadership. What is the Missing Element?

The issue of training and its efficacy has been brought up in an attempt to address the use of force issues law enforcement has encountered in the not-so-distant past. This [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Preparing for Your Second Career from Day 1: Developing an Exit Strategy for a Meaningful Career and a Purposeful Life

Are you at a crossroad in your life? Is the demand of a job in the helping profession making you reconsider your career and life plans? Know that others have [...]

Jonni Redick

Five Things Highly Effective Leaders Can Do During Turbulent Times

Between the riots and civil unrest, use of force incidents, and the pandemic, just to name a few, it’s been a turbulent and crisis-filled ride for law enforcement. While [...]

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

Leadership Mentoring: Successful Succession Planning

Succession planning is often viewed as an organizational issue that can only be resolved by those in the top positions. In reality, there is much that can be done at [...]

Michael Levin

Creating Powerful, Positive Sustainable Change

Change is always easier said than done. And more often than not, when change is implemented, it isn’t always done in an approach that makes the most sense for [...]

Thomas Dworak

CHAOS: Using Emotional Intelligence to Reduce Uncertainty

Our lives and the world in general tend to be full of uncertainty. The uncertainty is ultimately beyond our control but there is something we can control in such instances – [...]

Bobby Kipper

Scott Geller, PhD

Actively Caring for People: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Different approaches to policing are being introduced and implemented – some require complicated models, technical skills, and some of the most cutting-edge technology. However, it is typically the foundational concepts that [...]

Chris Jones

Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to Become a Better Leader

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a widely used personality assessment used all over the world. In the professional setting, familiarity with the MBTI can help boost individual and team [...]

Josh Fisher

Data-Driven Decision Making for Animal Welfare Organizations – Part 2

This is the second installment of a two-part webinar series on data-driven decision making for animal welfare organizations. The first course provided guidance on which data to track, the importance [...]

Katie Nelson

Hearing Headlines: How You Get to the Meat of the Story

A lot has changed in terms of how people consume information and remain up to date with current events. From waiting to watch the news at a fixed time of [...]

Jonni Redick

Five Ways to Survive Promotional Preparation

If you’ve ever sought to get promoted, you probably know the feeling that comes with preparing for it – the sense of not knowing what you’ll be facing come [...]

Jesse Loomis

Partner Webinar: Virtual Sheriff’s Sales: Fact & Fiction

More and more public sector entities are leveraging technology and innovations especially after the pandemic posed limitations on how we interact. Auctioning foreclosed property used to be done in the [...]

Matthew Barter

Amanda Burstein

Melissa Reuland

Metric Development and Data Collection with Community Partners

With the public scrutiny that the law enforcement profession has been subjected to, agencies have been working hard to demonstrate their effectiveness in addressing the challenges that they face daily. [...]

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

Decision-Making: Maximizing Best Outcomes

Decision-making is one of those skills that we never really get proper training for. It is one thing to make questionable decisions in our personal lives. But when the decisions [...]

Rich Martin

Culture Will Develop With or Without You: The Importance of Leadership in Creating the Desired Organizational Culture

Leaders can implement various strategies but a deeply ingrained organizational culture can resist if not downright reject any efforts for change. This webinar will expound on the importance of organizational [...]

Grant McDougall

Under Siege: The Psychological Impact on Law Enforcement in These Troubled Times

The law enforcement profession is demanding to say the least. In a career where one is deployed to some of the most dangerous and daunting situations, it requires those who [...]

Josh Fisher

Data-Driven Decision Making for Animal Welfare Organizations – Part 1

Dataism is deemed as the modern-day ideology. Everything must be backed up by some sort of data to be considered compelling. Some industries however weren’t founded to be data-focused [...]

Obed Magny

The Need for Transformational Leadership in Policing

Transformational leadership is an approach that aims to increase engagement, enhance the motivation, and improve morale of the workforce. It is also a valuable tool for justice professionals to have [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Executive Skills: How to be a More Efficient Leader at Any Level

Experience is indeed a great teacher. There are things that we don’t get taught or trained in and just end up acquiring the skills as we go through life. [...]

Wendy Hummell

Improving Resilience in Five Minutes a Day: Applying the 4 Pillars of Resilience into a Daily Routine to Thrive

The concept of resilience may seem abstract and at times romanticized to a fault. But at its core and in the practical side of looking at things, resilience is a [...]

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

The Leader’s Dilemma: How to Balance Two Important Needs

Typically, the interests of the employees and the employers are viewed to be at odds with each other, and leaders also usually find themselves in a dilemma and balancing on [...]

Kate Kimble

Crisis Communication Basics: Speaking Up When You Don’t Know What to Say

We’re all living in a world where information is being released for public consumption constantly. Unfortunately, some of these are actually inaccurate or just deliberate misinformation. Public safety agencies [...]

Al Cobos

Motivational Conversation for Community Building: Learn the skills needed to connect and engage with the communities we serve

Getting people to mobilize around a goal isn’t always the easiest thing to do. The same goes for getting the community members into building relationships with law enforcement that [...]

John Barbieri

Michael M. Cutone

Innovation in Policing: C3 Policing and the Eight Building Blocks for Healthier Communities

Police cannot arrest their way out of criminal activities in communities, that is for sure. Arresting all the bad actors law enforcement can get their hands on places a huge [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: Learning more about Self Expression and Emotional Expression

This is the final installment of the six-part Emotional Intelligence (EI) webinar series. Past sessions introduced the Dr. Reuven Bar-on EI Model, unpacked self-awareness, discussed the importance of stress management, [...]

K. Campbell

10 Cyber Security and Online Privacy Tips for Everyone

According to the 2020 FBI Internet Crime Report, internet crime complaints and monetary loss due to cybercrimes were at a record high in 2020. The caveat is, of course, these are just [...]

Damon Ing

Partner Webinar: Becoming a First Line Supervisor: Characteristics, Training and Challenges

The first step is always the hardest. It also often is a step outside one’s comfort zone. For law enforcement officers recently promoted to a front-line supervisor, this is [...]

Emily LaGratta

Communicating Trust: Can Simple Website Edits Boost Legitimacy?

The justice system is under heavy scrutiny. The outcome of this is the public’s deteriorating trust in the agencies and processes within. Trust-building is paramount, but the question being [...]

Sheryl Victorian

Relational Policing: Using the Power of Connection to Build Trust

According to a Gallup Poll, the public’s confidence in law enforcement has declined for both the Black and White segments of the population and has been its lowest point [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: Recognizing Interpersonal Skills and Empathy

This is the fifth of the Emotional Intelligence (EI) webinar series. In the past four sessions, we’re introduced to the Dr. Reuven Bar-on EI Model, unpacked self-awareness, discussed the [...]

Obed Magny

Morale in Criminal Justice Agencies

Dealing with critical incidents, people that could potentially endanger public safety, generally righting what is wrong with the community is no easy feat – this is what the criminal justice profession [...]

Scott Wolfe

Improving Officer Motivation to Train: The Barriers and Facilitators to Police Training Receptivity

The law enforcement field is pushed into the spotlight due to controversial and complicated interactions between the officers and the community. Not one to take things sitting down, law enforcement [...]

Ben Gorban

Frank Straub, PhD

Jennifer Zeunik

Creating a Culture of Learning: After-Action Reviews

It’s been said time and again, it’s only failure if you don’t learn from it. In the current political climate where law enforcement is under scrutiny, efforts [...]

Katie Nelson

Kate Kimble

Transparency in the Digital Era

Transparency is a success indicator in the public service space. How do organizations effectively achieve this in their efforts in an arena that deals with sensitive if not classified information? [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Long-Term Coping Skills

The pandemic affected people all over the world. Physically – with their mobility reduced due to health protocols; socially – with lessened interactions with loved ones; professionally – with productivity impacted by remote [...]

Katharine Manning

The Empathetic Workplace: 5 Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job

There are a lot of people who are suffering from stress and trauma that are not getting the help they need. This fact is only exacerbated over the last year [...]

Joel Caplan, PhD

Crime Prevention with Data-Informed Community Engagement

What happens when you merge factors of evidence-based and community policing together? Well, you get a super-informed strategy to mitigating and managing crime and other issues that a community might [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: Understanding Decision Making and Reality Testing

This session is the fourth of the Dr. Reuven Bar-on Emotional Intelligence Model webinar series. The first session provided an overview of the Emotional Intelligence EQ-i 2.0 model. The second webinar [...]

Mark Warren

Protecting Key People in Your Organization

Safety and security are essential – heads of states, organizational leaders, and celebrities face threats and risks and employ protective details to provide this. Ordinary people, however, can likewise encounter such [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Leadership: Lessons Learned Throughout a Career

Willingness to learn is a critical skill in any individual. Learning, however, can be a time-consuming process, and in the public safety and helping profession, the gift of time is [...]

Katie Nelson

Public Information Post-George Floyd

The last 12 months have been intense. In between a pandemic that threw off the whole world, the attack on the Capitol, incidents that pushed the BLM and StopAAPIHate movements into [...]

Obed Magny

The Importance of Mental Tenacity in Policing

There’s just too much we’re all dealing with in the world today that being on that go-mode just becomes our default setting. It means being always ready in [...]

Al Cobos

Motivational Conversation for Investigators

Outside the “cool” parts of law enforcement that we see on TV, a huge chunk of the profession operates on a lot of people skills and community engagement. Checking how [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: Flexibility & Stress Management

This session is the third of the Emotional Intelligence webinar series. The first session provided an overview of the Emotional Intelligence EQ-i 2.0 model, the research it is based upon, the [...]

Jenn Markey

Martin Hoff

Partner Webinar: Enabling a World of Trust within Law Enforcement, Local Government and Criminal Justice Systems

When it comes to the identities, credentials, and transactions of employees and citizens, securing a foundation of trust is more important now than ever. This webinar will explore the trends, [...]

Shawn Williams

Cultural Intelligence for Law Enforcement: A Deeper Dive for Success.

The turn of events over the last few years highlighted the adverse consequences of lack of cultural intelligence and beliefs fueled by hate. It is useful more than ever to [...]

K. Campbell

Making Personal Safety a Priority: Lessons for Public Officials, Criminal Justice Professionals and Victim Advocates

If there’s anything that the last 12 months taught us, it is that things can go awry any moment, danger is always lurking, and it is critical to make personal [...]

Jamie L. Roush

You don’t just need MORE data. You need the RIGHT data.

Data-driven and evidence-based approach is the buzzword in almost any industry lately. With all the data that’s made available from the numerous technology and systems that we are using, [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Growing Your Career by Developing Your Brand

We all probably started out in our careers with some goal. But somewhere along the journey, the goal may start to blur, we might get sidetracked, finding ourselves meandering or [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: Using Self Perception and Self Awareness

This webinar is the second of a three-part series on emotional intelligence. The first session provided an overview of the Emotional Intelligence EQ-i 2.0 model, the research it is based upon, [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Change and Acceptance: Why We Succeed, Why We Fail

We witnessed massive changes around us. Between 2020’s wildfires, COVID-19, George Floyd, the civil unrest, to a heated presidential election, and the fresh Capitol riot of 2021, we’re all forced [...]

Katie Nelson

Preparation is Key: Ensuring Your Chief is Ready for Media Interviews

Dealing with critical incidents is a default setting for those working in the law enforcement arena. Those in the front lines are putting themselves at risk handling some of the [...]

Jesse Loomis

A Case Study in Pennsylvania’s Transition to Online Sheriff Sales

With COVID-19 rampant across the U.S., sheriffs in Pennsylvania sought to find a way to continue their auctions without risking further spread of the infection. A progressive sheriff decided [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Understanding Unethical Behavior

Some of the most pressing problems that entities both in the public and private sphere are facing right now boil down to ethics. Use of force, bribery, and corruption are [...]

Al Cobos

Motivational Conversation for Supervisors: Easy to learn skills needed to move your team in the right direction

Managers aim to move their people towards an organizational goal. But by merely telling someone just what to do, you may be setting them up for failure when they’re [...]

Jeffery Carroll

Alex Goldenberg

Glen Mills

Paul G. Goldenberg

Mark Pfeifle

From Flash to Bang: How Disinformation Fueled the Attack on The U.S. Capitol

Disinformation is wreaking havoc on our modern society. The January sixth attack on the Capitol is one of the most glaring and horrifying examples of which. Groups that operate on [...]

Cheryl Stewart

Michael M. Brown

Emotional Intelligence: How EQ Can Make a Difference in Your Criminal Justice Career

In the real world, it takes more than just the traditional definition of intelligence to make it in life. Emotional intelligence, also known as EQ, is regarded as a much [...]

Michael Goold

It’s the Manager

Organizational productivity has been linked to a multitude of factors, and leadership is identified as one of the key cornerstones of this topic. The role of managers is seen as [...]

Adam Leath

Actions Speak Louder than Words: What Your Boss Wished You Knew. Professionalism in an Increasingly Unprofessional World

Too often, employees come to their bosses for grievances in hopes that they can provide answers to their questions and solutions to their issues. But did it ever occur what [...]

Halcyon Frank

Amy Morgan

Life-Saving Partners: 911 and Suicide Lifelines Working Together

Ensuring the safety of the public requires constant coordination between the agencies involved. Fire, EMS, law enforcement, dispatch – these are just some of the key stakeholders that must collaborate to [...]

Bill Pope

Craig Storer

The Current FCC Proceedings and How They will Affect Your Inmate Communications Environment

There are ongoing FCC proceedings that aim to regulate the Inmate Calling Services (ICS) rates and fees. Changes proposed will impact the operations of prisons and jails in terms of [...]

Katie Nelson

You Matter: Self Care for the Social Media Manager

If you’re finding yourself not performing at your best the past months, you’re not the only one. The past 9 months or so had been surreal, from natural disasters, [...]

Eric Knutson

Jeannette Dominguez

Anthony Norman

Recruiting the 21st Century Police Officer: Successes, Challenges and Lessons Learned

These days, recruiting for roles within the Police Department is quite the task. It requires agencies to have an awareness of what exactly they’re looking for, and what the [...]

Rob Weinhold

The Art of Crisis Leadership

In the law enforcement arena, it is not a matter of if a crisis will hit, but when will it hit. Crises may mean time, money, customers, careers and, in [...]

Lois James, PhD

Renée J. Mitchell, J.D., Ph.D.

Understanding Implicit Bias: Research and Reality

Implicit bias is a hot issue that the Justice Clearinghouse has covered in past webinars. However, most of these past discussions centered on defining implicit bias and how it manifests. [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Creating and Maintaining A Great Workforce: Recruiting and Retaining Quality Employees

To be able to have a great workforce, leaders and managers must work throughout the employee life cycle, from first day to farewell. There are so many resources on workforce [...]

Rick Hodsdon

Smile! You’re on Not-So Candid Camera

In an era when nearly everyone is equipped with a smart phone with audio-visual recording ability the number of recorded negative encounters between law enforcement and the public over the [...]

Greg Goreck

Don Redmond

William “Fritz” Reber

Livestream 911 Calls Directly to First Responders for Improved Situational Awareness and Faster Response Times

Stories get modified as it is passed from one person to another, some details will be omitted, added, and at some point, things get lost in translation. The same is [...]

Kimberly Miller

Leadership and the Art of the Sale

Selling is a primary life skill. It may not be as obvious, but every day, we’re selling. Selling is a valuable skill that is being practiced in most of [...]

Jesse Loomis

Conducting Online Sheriff Sales in the COVID-19 Era

A significant chunk of our lives now lives online. The last couple of months is a testament to the value of technology and our reliance on it now that we [...]

Josh Fisher

Enhancing Your Managed Intake Process

This is the second installment of a series on animal services intake. The previous webinar tackled the challenges that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Animal Services Unit struggled with in terms [...]

Clifford Pinkney

David Hutchinson

Mark Pfeifle

James Stuart

David Beth

Crisis Leadership & Communications in a Complex, Headline-Driven World

Incidents of civil unrest have been materializing in different parts of the US. The issue itself is complex and unfortunately, it is the law enforcement agencies that are bearing the [...]

Gipsy Escobar

Using Data and Performance Measurement to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes

Various factions are claiming differing positions as facts that most of us may no longer be sure which of these to believe. In these times of information overload, one thing [...]

Jeff Thompson, Ph.D.

Kevin Morison

An Occupational Risk: What Law Enforcement Agencies Can Do to Prevent Officer Suicide

More officers are dying by suicide than line of duty deaths. This conveys that while they’re well prepared and trained to handle critical incidents and dodge attacks and bullets, [...]

Brian Williamson

Joseph Hoebeke

Michael M. Brown

Kimberly Miller

Deanna Cantrell

Tough Times, Hard Conversations and Healing: Ask Us Anything

The world today is rife with issues that challenge people’s priorities and politics particularly for those who were bequeathed with the mandate to keep the peace and safety of [...]

Kimberly Miller

Being Water, Not Gas: Strategies & Tools to Effectively De-escalate Others

Bruce Lee is famously quoted for saying “Be Water, my friend,” but what does it exactly mean? Dr. Kimberly Miller is back on the Justice Clearinghouse to dissect what exactly [...]

Al Cobos

The Connection between Personal and Organizational Ethics

Ethics is one of those concepts that we all know at the back of our minds, but rarely are there active discussions on how it impacts our decisions – both on [...]

Thomas Dworak

Emphasizing EQ in your Organization Culture

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is about understanding and managing your emotions, along with the ability to establish and maintain relationships with others. Law Enforcement, Corrections, Parole or Courts are a relationship-driven [...]

Adam Leath

The Secret Sauce to Finding the Best Candidates

Employee attrition and talent acquisition cost agencies a lot. According to a research, it costs an estimated $5,000 each time an employee leaves and requires to be replaced by another. With [...]

Mitch Shim

Maria Volakhava

Centralizing Law Enforcement Purchasing Requests for Better Outcomes

In 2020, effectively deploying law enforcement budget is more important than ever before. Whether you’re purchasing equipment for security, protection, combat, or emergency response, ensuring that you’re stewarding taxpayer [...]

Kimberly Miller

Transformation and Change for Criminal Justice Professionals

Most of the changes in our lives are either ones that we mindfully laid out and prepare for or ones that disrupt our routines out of the blue. Our reaction [...]

Josh Fisher

Getting Started with Managed Intake

Working in animal shelters may seem like the dream job for animal lovers. The reality is it can be a logistical nightmare. Forecasting and planning become remote to what reality [...]

Michael Goold

Emotional Intelligence: The Hard Skill that Will Make Your Career and Save Your Personal Life

This webinar will introduce you to the principle of Emotional Intelligence and how you can prevent emotional hijacks, give yourself a yellow card, and “read” the emotions of others to [...]

Kimberly Miller

Calming Your Storm: Tools to De-Escalate Yourself, Increase Emotional Control & Reduce “Reactivity”

It’s been told that the COVID-19 pandemic is the kind of storm that puts us all in the same boat, unfortunately, this isn’t exactly the case. When such [...]

Mark Dolfi

Stephen Bevan

Tim Meyerhoff

Michael Cuti

Jason Thompson

Iris Recognition in Law Enforcement

Technology made our lives easier. The world we live in has been made so much more efficient through technology – transactions and processes have become more straightforward and seamless, systems and [...]

Kimberly Miller

Beyond Racism: Identifying the Roadblocks, Barriers and Blind Spots That Are Holding Your Organization Back

In any organization, there will be hierarchy, different teams, cogs in a machine, playing vital roles to move things forward. It might be impossible to find an organization that does [...]

Tina Buneta

Doreen Jokerst

Kimberly Miller

Deanna Cantrell

In Search Of Excellence: Lessons On Leadership, Life & How To Empower Female Leaders To Rise

True leaders welcome insights from others to become better. There are lots of resources – books, conferences, coaches, and mentors – that offer leadership development advice. However, for female leaders, these may [...]

Kimberly Miller

Owning Racism & Living the Solution

Webinar Video Clip: Owning Racism & Living the Solution There’s been public outcry over numerous incidents that‘s been happening all over the US seen to be fueled by [...]

Adam Leath

Is Mission Creep Killing Your Agency?

When we try to be everything for others is often when we end up delivering a little less than our optimal output. This is particularly true for public agencies where [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Contingency Planning: Continuity of Operations Planning, Resiliency, Redundancy, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Communications

If COVID-19 proved anything, it is that planning is of the utmost importance when it comes to critical incidents and unplanned situations. And it is not just about coming up [...]

Brenda Dietzman

The New Generations: How to Recruit, Retain, and Motivate

Generalizing people based on the generation they belong to is seemingly apparent in the current zeitgeist. What should have been an opportunity to better understand people and provide support based [...]

Jonas Baughman

Joel Caplan, PhD

Community Engagement and Crime Prevention with Risk-Based Policing: Real Data, Real Results

Law enforcement agencies have employed various approaches when it comes to their efforts to curb criminal activities and maintain the safety of the communities they serve. This webinar will unpack [...]

Al Cobos

Motivation and Meaning for Law Enforcement Personnel

It takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch, one bad incident to forget all the good that’s been done. Outlier events are putting the whole law enforcement arena [...]

Michael Goold

Like Being the Boss? You’ll need your team to stay that way!

Webinar Video Clip: Like Being the Boss? You'll Need Your Team to Stay that Way! Law enforcement is currently under scrutiny. One can only imagine how challenging it may [...]

Denise Beagley

Ethical Decision-Making for Law Enforcement and Other Justice Professionals

There are numerous complex issues that the world is dealing with daily that one may wonder is there a way to fix any of these? While there is no absolute [...]

Rick Hodsdon

What Justice Professionals Need to Know About Applying Common Law Contract Principles to Bargaining Agreements

Knowledge of legal concepts, albeit the most basic ones, provides all of us with a better understanding of how things work and how to traverse certain situations. This is particularly [...]

Katie Nelson

Stand Up, Stand Out: How Social Media Enhances Your Staying Power

Gone were the days when it considered acceptable for organizations to just say “no comment” when asked for a statement. Innovations in communication and broadcasting created a world where the [...]

Kimberly Miller

AMA: Maintaining Resilience

The Doctor is IN. Join us for the finale of this thought-provoking series about Resiliency, Leadership and the Challenging time we're living through. Dr. Kimberly Miller will be answering questions [...]

Tina Buneta

Joseph Hoebeke

Doreen Jokerst

Justin Smith

William Beck

Jack Cauley

Kimberly Miller

Leadership On The Front Lines: Navigating The COVID-19 Pandemic

Webinar Video Clip: Leadership on the Front Lines - Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic COVID-19 is testing everyone’s resilience. People are experiencing anxiety over their mobility, safety, livelihood, and [...]

Don McCrea

Are Current Training Models Failing Officers and Communities Alike?

Use of force incidents set back law enforcement agencies hundred-million dollars’ worth of settlement payout. And yet, when asked about challenges in the job, they cite a lack of resources [...]

Kimberly Miller

More Ways to Bounce and Build Your Resilience (Part 2)

This is the second installment of Dr. Kimberly Miller’s webinar series on resilience and bounceability. This time around, she will be providing six additional tools that can be integrated [...]

Kimberly Miller

Increasing Your Bounceability: Ways to Build Resilience Every Day

What the whole world is going through right now is testing all of us – from the government’s decision-making to things that we have better control of like our discipline, [...]

Sarah Mostyn

Kevin Morison

The Workforce Crisis, and What Law Enforcement Agencies Are Doing About It

Law enforcement agencies are facing a crisis. Pressures from different sides pose multiple threats to the workforce as agencies remain understaffed, the number of applications dwindling, voluntary retirement rising, and [...]

Chris Jones

Community Coordinated Responses: The Key to Getting Your Communities Onboard

Any public sector initiative is only as good as the community support it gets. But rallying the community is easier said than done. This course aims to provide pointers on [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Creating and Maintaining a Professional Workforce: Managing Difficult People and Dealing with Negativity in the Workplace

Negativity can be justified when conditions are unfair, but constant negativity is just detrimental especially in the workplace where the whole team is working towards a goal. So how do [...]

Denise Beagley

Cultural Intelligence for Justice Professionals

We’ve all come to understand that to be successful in our professional or personal lives, it requires more than just IQ. Justice Clearinghouse has featured numerous courses detailing the [...]

Darrel W. Stephens

Peter Bellmio

Humanizing Policing: 8 Steps that Build Community Confidence and Promote Officer Safety

Community safety is so much more than just law enforcement making arrests. It entails the community’s cooperation and other agencies’ collaboration to make the efforts more effective and comprehensive. [...]

Nina Stively

Hashtags and Hate Mail

By nature, the public sector is subjected to scrutiny on their decisions and actions, ensuring tax dollars are being spent sensibly. On social media, the criticism is amplified many times [...]

Sean Goodison

Moving to NIBRS: Insights into Past, Present, and Future of Incident-Based Reporting

The private sector is making innovations and improvements in how they conduct their business, and the public sector is definitely following suit. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that [...]

Chase Wetherington

Military Service and Law Enforcement Recruitment

Law enforcement is a field that is considered heroic. So is military service. So it kind of makes sense that the skills and expertise of military veterans be leveraged for [...]

Cassie Johnson

Professional Certification for a Law Enforcement Planner: What? Why? And How?

What is a law enforcement planner? It isn’t as easily defined as it not specifically just one title or person. What identifies the role is its roots in data-informed [...]

Katie Nelson

Risk vs. Reward: Being the Middle Man in the Digital Age

People’s lives are now online and expect the same for the public sector – to deliver services, provide information, and engage with the population online, and in critical situations, real-time. [...]

Kimberly Miller

Marketing & Hiring: How To Stand Out When You Are A Small Fish In A Big Pond

Every organization has a set of core values and mission statement. It is from these and the people within that the organizational culture is formed. These are the factors that [...]

Sonia Quiñones

Karin Montejo

Creating your Own Brand of Leadership – Authentically

Leadership is a word that carries so much weight – power, influence, responsibility, and wisdom are just a few words that are associated with it. While some may be hesitant to [...]

Harry Glidden

Integrating Community Partnership into Your Agency

Law enforcement is supposed to be the guardian and protector of the communities that they serve. But somewhere along the way, distrust and animosity grew between the communities and law [...]

Peter Bellmio

Beyond Strategic Planning: Creating a Community Crime Control Plan for Your Agency

Public safety agencies are doing the best that they can to make sure that the communities they serve remain safe and peaceful. But still, there will be certain things that [...]

Cecelia Rosser

Wendy Rich-Goldschmidt

Moving Beyond the Confidence Gap: Advocating for Yourself, Your Colleagues and Your Career

Following the Women in Policing webinar series that covered various gender dynamics, diversity and women issues in the law enforcement field, this session will provide strategies to address issues related [...]

Kimberly Miller

Turning Conflict Into Conversation

When people hear about conflict, it conjures thoughts and feelings of betrayal, disappointment, pain or anger, among others. Because of these negative memories and experiences, the most common response is [...]

Stacey A. Wright

2019 Cyber Cases in Review and What Decision-Makers Can Do

Cyberthreats exist and they evolve. With this in mind, it is always recommended to stay on top of things when it comes to cybersecurity. Anyone call fall victim to these [...]

Claudine Wilkins

Liability Issues for Law Enforcement

The realm of public safety, criminal justice, and animal control protects its personnel by granting some immunities that allow them to perform their duties. However, there are limitations to these [...]

Kimberly Miller

Making Your Words An Asset Not A Liability: How To Improve What You Say and How You Say It

Everyone needs to communicate, even those who refuse or are unable to talk utilize non-verbal form of communication to convey their preferences or emotions. Communication is critical in any relationship – [...]

Corey Dobridnia

The Public Relations Aspect of Law Enforcement: Creating Internal Agency Buy-In within Your

Any public agency knows that a community’s trust is the best measure of return of investment. And how does an organization gain trust? Through its engagement with the community [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Enhancing Leadership Skills

The word leadership has a lot of weight – it denotes power and responsibility, privileges and selflessness. With these in mind, some people may find themselves in a leadership position with [...]

Rick Hodsdon

First Amendment, Social Media and Employee Discipline

Most of the world is now online. This definitely altered our reality, changing how humans deal with their personal lives, the workplace, the society and its government. Technology provides conveniences [...]

Jason Ratcliff

Darrah Metz

Kimberly Miller

Therapy K9’s: Changing the way law enforcement reaches their communities

One in every five American families has a pet. Pets provide security, companionship, happiness, and love to the individuals and families they live with. The law enforcement and criminal justice [...]

Wayne C. Beyer, Esq.

Rights of Police Officers, Sheriff’s Deputies and other Law Enforcement Professionals

A career in law enforcement grants specific powers, but it also comes with a set of obligations and limitations on one’s conduct and rights. It may seem like a [...]

Karin Montejo

Using Your Words: Communicating Your Authority

Communication skills play a critical role in achieving success in your career. Research in this area has recognized men and women differ in their communication styles. How we communicate goes [...]

Peter Bellmio

Staffing 911 Centers in the Era of NG911

Next Generation 911 is being integrated by public safety agencies in their goal to enhance emergency services through improved communications powered by wireless technology. As more and more communities are adopting [...]

Rick Hodsdon

Brady Giglio: What Justice Professionals Need to Know

One of the ways that public service agencies measure their performance is through the trust that the community places upon them. With this in mind, every government employee is held [...]

Anne Li Kringen

Paige Valenta

Women in Policing: Performance and Outcomes

Performance evaluation in policing is often focused on simplistic objectives based on outcomes. Doing so fails to capture all the other facets of policing that goes beyond arrests, tickets and [...]

Evie Monnington-Taylor

Recruiting a Diverse Police Force: Insights and Action Items from a 21-City Study

Diversity is being widely advocated in today’s society. This is no different in the workplace with the belief that it is the differences in views and experiences that allows [...]

Rob Weinhold

The Art of Crisis Leadership

We often think that we’re all prepared and got all bases covered until a crisis hits us. A crisis can just turn lives and organizations 180 degrees, disrupting established systems [...]

Amy Morgan

Honoring our Differences

Doing a Google search can easily expose you to the many ways society decides to categorize and label people. Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert? Do you belong to [...]

Alexander Weiss

Race, Ethnicity and Police Deployment

Patrol workload staffing can be tedious. It may require trial and error before getting to that optimized point where the staff allocation is exactly the level needed to fully cover [...]

Katie Nelson

Your Story, Your Time: Elevating Your Social Media Presence in the Digital Age

The use of social media gave people the freedom and power to share their stories and experiences. Some abused this which resulted in the proliferation of false information and fake [...]

Jeff Sweetin

Trends in Off Duty Work: Challenges & Considerations

Law enforcement is an elite profession that comes with specific skills and training. These are in demand for private establishments that desire to have a certain level of expertise in [...]

Wayne C. Beyer, Esq.

What Happens When You Get Sued: The Civil Litigation Process for Law Enforcement Officers

Your job brings you in contact with the criminally accused, but now you are called the “defendant” in a civil case. What are the steps in civil litigation? Is your [...]

Ray Nash

The Dynamic of Restoration: Restoring Renegade Officers

Law enforcement is identified to be one of the most stressful professions. But more often than not, what’s keeping our police, corrections and probation officers stressed out isn’t [...]

Corey Yunke

Fostering and Maximizing Your Organization’s Community Engagement

Any agency that delivers services to the community understands the value in engaging the citizens and that return on investment is measured through the trust earned. It’s another story [...]

Adam Ricci

Leading the Chaos

In arenas that deal with emergency response and public safety, it is best to be prepared for things not to go as planned. Change can be scary – but it is [...]

Mike Eberhardt

Pete Gagliardi

Sustainable Crime Gun Intelligence Strategies Require Policy Driven Tactics

Whether implementing a regional or agency-wide preventive crime gun strategy, the establishment of formal policies is a critical factor that must be addressed. These policies can be wide ranging in [...]

James Williams

Ken Clary

Reducing Traffic Fatalities in Urban and Rural Areas: Notes from NIJ’s LEADS Program

When people refer to car crashes as accidents, it gives a tone that there isn’t much anyone can do to prevent it. But through evidence-based policing, the Metropolitan Nashville [...]

Chase Wetherington

Education, Hiring and Disciplinary Issues in Law Enforcement Agencies

It wasn’t until about 50 years ago that the law enforcement field actually implemented efforts to encourage its members to pursue higher level of education. Prior this, just about anyone [...]

Rick Hodsdon

What Justice Professionals Need to Know about Garrity: Myths and Realities

The United States Supreme Court decision of Garrity v. New Jersey became the baseline in which government employees have the right to be free from compulsory self-incrimination. However, the concept [...]

Kimberly Miller

Securing The Future Of Your Agency Through Succession Planning

The success or failure of any organization is often attributed to its leadership. Great leaders create a great team that results in great performance. An organization’s effectiveness and dynamics, [...]

Corey Yunke

Finding Your Social Media “Voice.”

From being a place in the internet where students merely kill their time to connect and meet people through their network of friends, social media has evolved into a one-stop [...]

Rich Martin

A Daily Drop of Corrosion: How the Daily Experiences in the Justice Professions Can Lead to Burnout

In 2018, CareerCast ranked policing as the fourth most stressful job in the US brought about by the dangerous and demanding nature of the profession. When an individual’s stress is [...]

Peter Bellmio

Staffing Analysis for Criminal Investigations

One of the most common problems encountered by law enforcement agencies is the allocation of their resources. Various approaches have been employed by agencies not just around the US but [...]

Stacey A. Wright

Cyber Metrics for Agency Execs

Cyberthreats are plenty, thus securing technology and infrastructure is now integral in any business or agency. But too often, the higher-ups of these organizations are not as adept with the [...]

Mark Warren

Ask Me Anything: Workplace Violence and Mass Shootings

In this three-part seminar series we start with a question we often use in class: Somewhere in your community today, there is someone that you believe could be capable of [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Self-Care for Justice Professionals

In 2012, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–V) rewrote the definition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) such that it is no longer confined to those who experienced [...]

Rick Hodsdon

Federal Statutes and Who is Not Allowed to Possess Firearms

The debate on gun control can get heated but despite conflicting positions from different sectors of society, federal statutes have definite stipulations on firearm possession in effect. These, together with [...]

Thomas Dworak

EQ and You: Developing Your Emotional Intelligence

EQ has been found to be correlated to success. The better we are in managing our emotions, the better will we be able to handle whatever it is that life [...]

Kimberly Miller

Coaching and Developing Your Bench

Succession planning is complex – it is not just a matter of picking and choosing a person to pass the torch to. It’s an arduous process that involves modeling, coaching, [...]

Amy Morgan

Difficult Conversations

Difficult conversations are just that – difficult. They happen in instances when we need to communicate our grievances, things that we want to change, or deliver bad news. But there are [...]

Mark Warren

Threats and Risk Assessments of Workplace Violence for Justice Agencies

The Workplace Violence webinar series started with a brief overview on the dynamics of the actors, the causes, types, phases, and impact of critical incidents. It also delved into the [...]

Corey Yunke

Social Media on a Shoestring Budget

There’s a common misconception that social media management is fast, free and easy. Unlike our personal social media accounts, managing social media for an organization requires a working budget, [...]

Shon F. Barnes

Daniel Stewart

Implementing Evidence-Based Policing: Lessons from the LEADS Program

Evidence-based methods have been utilized in medicine and sciences for a significant time and it has resulted in desirable results. Evidence-based policing is a practice that is being embraced by [...]

Rick Hodsdon

The ADA for Justice Professionals

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), first enacted in 1990 and amended in 2009 was put into place to eradicate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. In the workplace setting, ADA works to [...]

Mark Warren

Understanding Workplace Violence: Operationalizing Your Prevention Strategies in a Justice Environment

On February 15, 2019, another shooting incident took place – this time around, it is in Aurora, Illinois. Gary Martin, a worker at Henry Pratt Co., open fired and killed five other employees, [...]

Jamey Gadoury

Thomas Dworak

Mind.Set + Habit.Set: Your Growth

If there is one thing that we ought to mindfully invest our time and efforts on, it is our personal growth. Doing this entails looking at one’s habits and [...]

Kimberly Miller

Leading For Influence: It Matters What You Choose Each Day

With the growing amount of professional coaches and leadership strategies that are out there, it can get overwhelming which of them will suit us best – from stylish buzzwords, clever mnemonics [...]

Peter Bellmio

Patrol Work Scheduling

This is a contentious issue in many police agencies. There is no generally accepted “best schedule." Each system has advantages and disadvantages that must be weighed based on local needs. [...]

Wayne C. Beyer, Esq.

Police Liability: Recent Developments under Section 1983

Use of force is one of those cases that is always open for public debate. Law enforcement is scrutinized so many times for such incidents. Numerous factors are considered, and [...]

Justin Watt

Jamey Gadoury

Moral Courage and Ethical Lessons Learned from Iraq’s Most Notorious War Crime

War zone. Unspeakable crimes. Americans responsible. What makes one person speak for justice when others stay silent? What happens when accusations lack evidence – and a life hangs in the balance? [...]

Corey Yunke

Launching Your Social Media Program

While social media is viewed as nothing but an avenue to kill time for most people, it has evolved into playing a critical role for institutions – from private companies to [...]

Rick Hodsdon

Family Medical Leave Act for Justice Professionals

The Family Medical Leave Act is one of the major pieces of legislation adopted in the early 1990s. It requires nearly all public employers to provide up to 12 weeks per [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Communication Skills for All Occasions

Saying that communication is important is an understatement. It serves a central role in our lives, specifically our relationships – from the people closest to us to the most random strangers. [...]

Eric La Scola

How Speech Recognition Technology is Transforming Police Reporting

An exceeding number of police departments and law enforcement agencies, whose officers spend upwards of 3-4 hours a day completing incident reports and other time-sensitive paperwork, are turning to smarter [...]

David J. Rogers

Report Writing for Probation Officers

When a person decides to be a part of the world of criminal justice, they are generally drawn in by the authority, having the means to protect the people they [...]

Kimberly Miller

Keeping Your Super Heroes Super

Taking on the job in the public sector means being ready to be of service to the people. For those working as first responders, health providers, or law enforcers – service [...]

Peter Bellmio

Patrol Staffing Analysis Tools

Police patrol workforce staffing can be a tedious exercise that requires an immense amount of data collection and hours of number crunching during analysis. Despite the seemingly time-consuming effort, being [...]

Gary Cordner

Evidence-Based Policing: A Practical Approach

Evidence-Based Policing (EBP) has been around for two decades but only has been getting a lot of traction in the last few years. However, evidence-based policing is being practiced by [...]

Amy Morgan

Diverse Generations in Public Safety

There are different types of personalities in the workplace, some of whom we may not necessarily see eye-to-eye with. Some claim the disconnect to be a result of generational differences. [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Creating a Leadership Paradigm

Organizational culture and the management/leadership style makes all the difference for the agency and its members. It should become instinctive for any organization – be it a private entity or [...]

Kimberly Miller

Implicit Bias: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

The human mind is a truly incredible thing. How it processes information outside of our consciousness is amazing. Implicit bias is one of those brain functions that run in the [...]

Peter Bellmio

Measuring Patrol Workload

Workforce staffing can be problematic for law enforcement patrol officers who are always on the move. But to be able to support an agency’s requests for additional resources – be [...]

Rick Hodsdon

Fair Labor Standards Act for Justice Professionals

As employees and employers, it is always good to maintain fairness in the workplace. How can one ensure that they are doing what is fair at all times? The National [...]

Natasha Terk

Planning and Leading Effective In-Person or Virtual Meetings

For some people, the word meeting evokes hours spent unproductively, listening to people talk about topics that could've easily been settled through a call or email, or in some cases, [...]

Tiffany Anderson

Candace Hammond

Planning, Designing and Constructing a Public Safety Facility: A Case Study

Most public safety agencies have existing facilities that are sufficient for their daily operations and activities. But for some, additional facilities or improvements to existing ones are necessary to deliver [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Creating, Managing, or Becoming Peak Performers

Wouldn’t it be just nice if everyone in your workplace is working and contributing the best that they can? Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case. Some would only [...]

Joe Alexander

Julie Ward

How Data Analytics Improve Agency & Facility Management

Cliché as it sounds, change is really the only permanent thing in life. Most think of the learning curve and the disruption when change happens, but with change also comes [...]

Rick Hodsdon

What Justice Professionals Need to Know about First Amendment Speech and the Public Sector

The First Amendment rights are one of the great pillars of our democracy. Freedom of speech becomes a sensitive issue once a person enters the arena of public service though. [...]

Dean Cunningham

Kate Kimble

Breaking Your Own News: Telling Your Story on Your Own Terms

Technology helped a lot for people to keep in touch and stay updated whether it is with other people or with their community. Every minute, millions of content are being [...]

Kimberly Miller

Dealing With The Dark Side: How To Handle Your Most Difficult Employees

Every organization has got its own share of good and bad. There are your superstar employees – the Jedis of your agency. Then there are your naysayers, critics, and apathetics – they [...]

Thomas Dworak

Who’s Up Next: Succession Planning for Continuous Organizational Growth

Leadership is very important for any organization. Thus, hiring the right candidates and succession planning is critical to ensure an organization’s continuity. Finding the right leaders can be elusive [...]

Jamey Gadoury

Judith S. Bethge

Thomas Dworak

Roy Bethge

Session 8: Ask Me Anything

During our final session Judy, Jamey, Roy and Thom will be taking your questions. Need further clarity on a concept? Want to go further down the rabbit hole on Courageous [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Creating and Managing Organizational Change

The only permanent thing in the world is change. Trite as it might sound, it’s the reality. Changes happen in our personal lives, in our workplace, in society. There’[...]

Ray Nash

E5 Leadership

The type of leadership in effect in any agency is reflected in the people that work within its halls and the institution itself. Whether the agency and its personnel will [...]

Brian Murphy

Session 4: Interview with Brian Murphy

Lt. Murphy will share his story of being a reluctant hero in the face of being shot 15 times during the Sikh Temple Shooting in Oak Creek, WI. Discussion will include [...]

Will Davis

Strategic Planning as a Management Philosophy

Creating a long-term and sustainable strategic plan can be one of the challenges for institutions – whether public or private. Ensuring that an institution's priorities and trajectory are congruent to the [...]

Matthew Kail

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Creating an Organizational Culture of Wellness

Work-related stress is prevalent – it happens to people with 9 to 5 desk jobs, field workers, start-up entrepreneurs, top-tier executives; blue collar, white collar. Work-related stress can be reduced and relieved by [...]

Dan Linskey

Jamey Gadoury

Roy Bethge

Session 2: Interview with Dan Linsky

Dan Linsky was Superintendent-In-Chief (ret) of the Boston Police Department during the Boston Marathon Bombing. Chief Linskey will share leadership lessons from the Boston Marathon Bombing including the role of [...]

Ray Nash

Resiliency and the Dynamic of Restoration

Resiliency is a highly-revered quality. Overcoming adversity and our personal demons can be tough. More so when you’re in a position that exposes you to different characters and situations. [...]

Judith S. Bethge

Roy Bethge

Session 1: Leadership-Growing the Courage to Lead (Fee Based)

In this session, participants will gain a better understanding of courageous leadership and develop strategies to improve their overall leadership capacity. Topics will include developing courage, the importance of mindset [...]

Natasha Terk

Report Writing for Justice Professionals: How to write complex, multisection documents for mixed audiences

Writing isn’t everyone’s strongest suit but it’s one of those things that we won’t be able to avoid. We need to write, even its just for [...]

Ray Nash

The Centurion Principle – The Dynamic of Authority

Virtually all instances of police misconduct are the result of ego-driven officers operating “out from under authority.” Officers have been delegated all of the lawful authority necessary to accomplish the [...]

John Thompson

Emotional Intelligence for Law Enforcement: A Hidden Key for Survival

In today’s society, EQ is more important in the field of public service. John Thompson shares this to the attendees as he discusses Emotional Intelligence for Law Enforcement. John [...]

Thomas Dworak

Leadership EQ from the Inside Out

Thomas Dworak is the instructor, content developer and consultant for the Virtus Group where he facilitates and develops training programs. His prolific background in law enforcement and education shaped [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving for Effective Decision Making

From an outsiders’ point of view, law enforcement seems to be one of those muscle-intensive jobs. Once you’re in the profession though, then you’ll realize that brain really [...]

Michael G. Aamodt

Employing Background Checks in Your Hiring Process: Legal Requirements vs Current Research

Employers use background checks – both criminal and credit history – when deciding which candidates to hire. Due to the increase in lawsuits involving background checks, they tread a fine line when [...]

Ray Nash

Making the Character Connection – The Dynamic of Virtue

Ray Nash has 40 years of experience working in law enforcement. Ray was first appointed as a police chief at the age of 23, had 3 terms as a sheriff, and became the [...]

Cassidee Carlson

Developing a PIO Support Program for Families During Mass Casualty Events

The recent shooting in Kentucky was the 11th of the year, and the worst so far. This statistic is difficult to wrap our heads around as it is only 25 days [...]

Natasha Terk

Writing Performance Reviews the SMART Way

Regardless of the industry or the niche of your business, organization, or agency, Performance Review is a great way to ensure that your workforce remains competitive. Further, employees need Performance [...]

Thomas Dworak

Hiring for Emotional Intelligence

Law enforcement is a prestigious career path, but recently, the younger generation isn't as keen into entering this field with the expanse of opportunities and possibilities being presented by the [...]

Amy Morgan

Leadership Through the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Self-fulfilling prophecy (SFP), when used positively, can assist us in manifesting our intentions and goals and turn these into reality. Unfortunately, people use SFP at times as negative self-talk. The [...]

Mark Hendershot

Best Practices in Drug Testing

Drug use and abuse are some of the biggest issues of the global community – in the legal and criminal perspective, as well in the scientific and medical point of view. [...]

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD

Role of the First Line Supervisor

Being the first line supervisor is the gateway to being a part of management. Too often, however, associates are promoted to first line supervisor positions without sufficient training or mentorship. [...]

Mark Hendershot

Competency Based Human Resourcing: Evidence Based Practices

How does your organization ensure they are hiring the right people, with the correct mix of technical and soft skills, who are well suited to the demands of the job, [...]

Thomas Dworak

Developing Communication and Emotional Intelligence Skills

The goal of a Field Training and Evaluation Program is the development of high performing, emotionally intelligent, adaptive critical thinkers who are able to respond to the demands of a [...]

Ray Nash

Dynamic of Authority

The Dynamic of Authority is the cornerstone of the Police Dynamics program. Virtually every instance of police misconduct results from officers operating “out from under” the principle of authority. [...]

Rob Trivino

Making the Most of Your After Action Review

In this webinar Rob will discuss the After Action Review and how to use it. He will present his guiding principles of the AAR which will allow you to [...]

Rob Trivino

Lessons in Leadership

In this webinar Rob will talk about select areas of leadership that have proven critical to his leadership success. He will present his core leadership principles, which are based on [...]

Dave Hagar

Deanna Cantrell

Mastering the Art of Selling Yourself Part Two

The instructors are currently sworn law enforcement at the Mesa Police Department: Assistant Chief Deanna Cantrell and Commander Dave Hagar. During this two part course, they will discuss the [...]

Amy Morgan

Blending the After Action Review Critical Incident Stress Debriefing

This webinar will compare specific steps to action improvement, with the mentally beneficial side of debriefing after a critical incident, and will provide a way to blend the two [...]

Michael Mitchell

Kimberly Schlau

Roy Bethge

Drive Down Line-of-Duty Deaths with Below 100

Below 100 is an officer safety program focused on changing law enforcement culture and saving lives. It's already making a difference: Between 2002 and 2011, an average of more than 165 line-of-duty deaths (LODDs) [...]

Paul Nelson

Crime Reduction Through Identifying and Targeting Criminal Offenders

No matter how their mission statements may differ, all police departments share a common goal of reducing crime. There are various theories and strategies about how to achieve crime [...]

Dave Hagar

Deanna Cantrell

Mastering the Art of Selling Yourself Part One

The instructors are currently sworn law enforcement at the Mesa Police Department: Assistant Chief Deanna Cantrell and Commander Dave Hagar. During this two part course, they will discuss the [...]

G. M. Cox

Whining, Sniveling, Malcontents: Dealing With Them and Saving Your Organization

During this webinar you will learn: The various roles the leaders of the 21st Century need to master in order to be effective leaders, not just managers; The types of [...]

After the Webinar: Cultivating Wellness in Your Organization. Q&A with Darren Ivey

Webinar presenter Darren Ivey answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Cultivating Wellness in Your Organization: Trauma-Informed Leadership and Other Helpful Ideas. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: The Performance Management Process. Q&A with Dr. Jeff Fox

Webinar presenter Dr. Jeff Fox answered a number of your questions after his presentation, The Performance Management Process: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just a few of his [...]

After the Webinar: Rockin’ the Leadership Role. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar Presenters Drs. Ed Sherman and David Bond answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Rockin' the Leadership Role: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just a [...]

After the Webinar: Organizational Culture – What it is, How to Identify it, and How to Change it. Q&A with Obed Magny

Webinar presenter Dr. Obed Magny answered a number of your questions after his presentation, A Deeper Dive into Organizational Culture: What it Is, How to Identify It, and How to [...]

After the Webinar: Making the Roadmap Visible. Q&A with Rhonda Glover Reese

Webinar presenter Rhonda Glover Reese answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Making the Roadmap Visible: Ascending to Leadership Roles in Law Enforcement. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: How Effective Is Your Feedback? Q&A with Halcyon Frank

Webinar presenter Halcyon Frank answered a number of your questions after her webinar, How Effective Is Your Feedback? Lessons for Dispatch and Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: Overcoming the Barriers to Change. Q&A with Jackalyn Rainosek

Webinar presenter Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Overcoming the Barriers to Change: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Deconfliction – Officer Safety and Investigative Coordination. Q&A with Kent Shaw

Webinar presenter Kent Shaw answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Deconfliction: Officer Safety and Investigative Coordination. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Confident Female Leadership. Q&A with Brenda Dietzman

Webinar presenter Brenda Dietzman answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Confident Female Leadership. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: I have that [...]

After the Webinar: Keeping Your Detention Facility Out of the Ditches and on the Right Path. Q&A with Jim Martin

Webinar presenter Jim Martin answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Keeping Your Detention Facilities Out of the Ditches and on the Right Path. Here are just a [...]

After the Webinar: Every Day Ethics for Animal Control Officers. Q&A with Harold Holmes

Webinar presenter Harold Holmes answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Every Day Ethics for Animal Control Officers. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience [...]

Thoughts about Biggest Stressors from Sherri Martin and Dr. Jackie Drew

Sherri Marin and Dr. Jacqueline Drew shared so many great data points and insights from their research during the webinar, What Police Officers Want: Consulting the Source. Here’s just [...]

After the Webinar: 15 Proven Ways to Improve Staff Morale at No Additional Cost. Q&A with John Shuford

Webinar presenter John Shuford answered a number of your questions after his presentation, 15 Proven Ways to Improve Staff Morale at No Additional Cost. Here are just a few of his [...]

Thoughts about Leadership from Diana Knapp

During her webinar, Diana Knapp shared a number of great thoughts during the webinar, Boomers, Slackers and Snowflakes: Building a Multi-Generational Leadership Team. Here’s just one of her great [...]

Thoughts on Leadership from Dr. Ed Sherman

Dr. Ed Sherman always has such great insights during his webinars. Here's just one that he shared during the webinar, Be the Leader You Wish You Had. "The title [...]

After the Webinar: The Five Best Ways to Manage Talent. Q&A with Jonni Redick

Webinar presenter Jonni Redick answered a number of your questions after her webinar, The Five Best Ways to Manage Talent. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience [...]

After the Webinar: Boomers, Slackers and Snowflakes. Q&A with Diana Knapp

Webinar presenter Diana Knapp answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Boomers, Slackers, and Snowflakes: Building a Multi-Generational Team. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Be the Leader You Wish You Had. Q&A with Dr. Ed Sherman

Webinar presenter Dr. Ed Sherman answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Be the Leader You Wish You Had. Here are just a few of his responses. [...]

Thoughts about Dignity from Diana Knapp

During her webinar, Diana Knapp shared a number of great thoughts during the webinar, Responding to the Urban Jail in Crisis: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here’s just one [...]

Thoughts about Culture from Diana Knapp

During her webinar, Diana Knapp shared a number of great thoughts during the webinar, Responding to the Urban Jail in Crisis: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here’s just one [...]

Questions to Ask Yourself from Brenda Dietzman

During her webinar, Brenda Dietzman shared a number of great insights during the webinar, Organizational Stress from the Administrative Perspective. Here’s just one of her great reminders. "Ask Yourself: [...]

Thoughts about Engaged Employees from Katie Nelson

During her webinar, Katie Nelson shared a number of great insights and statistics during the webinar, Secrets Don't Make Friends: How to Ensure You Are Communicating Well with Your Internal [...]

Thoughts about Employee Communications from Katie Nelson

During her webinar, Katie Nelson shared a number of great insights and statistics during the webinar, Secrets Don't Make Friends: How to Ensure You Are Communicating Well with Your Internal [...]

Thoughts about What Matters to Employees from Katie Nelson

During her webinar, Katie Nelson shared a number of great insights and statistics during the webinar, Secrets Don't Make Friends: How to Ensure You Are Communicating Well with Your Internal [...]

Thoughts about Worry from Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek

During her webinar Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek shared a number of great insights during the webinar, Change is a Process, not an Event: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here’s just [...]

Thoughts about Trauma in the 2020s from Katherine Manning

During her webinar Katherine Manning shared a number of great insights during the webinar, Trauma Informed Leadership: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here’s just one of her great reminders. &[...]

Thoughts about Fair and Equal Treatment from Katherine Manning

After the Webinar: Trauma Informed Leadership. Q&A with Katharine Manning

Webinar presenter Katharine Manning answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Trauma Informed Leadership: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Change is a Process, Not an Event. Q&A with Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek

Webinar presenter Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Change is a Process, Not an Event. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Communicating with Executives, Supervisors and Managers. Q&A with Al Cobos

Webinar presenter Al Cobos answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Communicating with Executives, Supervisors, and Managers: Selling Your Ideas Up the Chain of Command. Here are just [...]

After the Webinar: How to Ensure You Are Communicating Well with Your Internal Audiences. Q&A with Katie Nelson

Webinar presenter Katie Nelson answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Secrets Don't Make Friends: How to Ensure You Are Communicating Well with Your Internal Audiences. Here are [...]

After the Webinar: Organizational Stress from the Administrative Perspective. Q&A with Brenda Dietzman

Webinar presenter Brenda Dietzman answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Organizational Stress: From the Administrative Perspective. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Responding to the Urban Jail in Crisis. Q&A with Diana Knapp

Webinar presenter Diana Knapp answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Responding to the Urban Jail in Crisis. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience [...]

After the Webinar: Leadership out of your Comfort Zone. Q&A with Dr. Erik Fritsvold

Webinar presenter Dr. Erik Fritsvold answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Leadership Out of Your Comfort Zone: Best Practices and Proven Strategies for Success. Here are just [...]

Thoughts about Modeling Behavior from Fred Fletcher

During his webinar with Caroline Huffaker, Fred Fletcher shared a number of great reminders during their webinar, Not Just Feeling Words: How Victim Services Can Lead to Success in Law [...]

Thoughts about Open Door Policies from Caroline Huffaker

During her webinar with Fred Fletcher, Caroline Huffaker shared a number of great insights during the webinar, Not Just Feeling Words: How Victim Services Can Lead to Success in Law [...]

Thoughts on Leadership and Followership from Dr. Ed Pallas

Dr. Ed Pallas shared a number of great insights during his webinar, Understanding Followership: The Other Side of Leadership. This was just one. "Leadership and followership are 2 sides of the [...]

Thoughts on Wellness from Dr. Ed Sherman

Dr. Ed Sherman always has such great advice during his webinars. Here was one he shared during his webinar, “Achieving Effective Outcomes through Staff Communication.” "If you don't make time [...]

Thoughts about Retaining Your People from Dr. Ed Sherman

We always love all the great insights Dr. Ed Sherman has to share during his webinars. Here's just one great reminder that he shared during his webinar, "Achieving Effective Outcomes [...]

Thoughts about Training from Dr. Ed Sherman

We always love all the great insights Dr. Ed Sherman has to share during his webinars. Here's just one great reminder that he shared during his webinar, "Achieving Effective [...]

After the Webinar: Fundraising Tactics, Tips, and Ideas. Q&A with Julie Bank

Webinar presenter Julie Bank answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Fundraising Tactics, Tips, and Ideas for Municipal and Non-Profit Animal Welfare Agencies. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: Achieving Effective Outcomes through Staff Communication. Q&A with Dr. Ed Sherman

Webinar presenter Dr. Ed Sherman answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Achieving Effective Outcomes through Staff Communication. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience [...]

After the Webinar: Understanding Followership. Q&A with Dr. Ed Pallas

Webinar presenter Dr. Ed Pallas answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Understanding Followership: The Other Side of Leadership. Here are just a few of his responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Establishing Organizational Success – Understanding the EAC Factor. Q&A with Bobby Kipper

Webinar presenter Bobby Kipper answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Establishing Organizational Success: Understanding the EAC Factor for Criminal Justice Organizations. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Navigating the Pathway to Public Trust. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Katie Nelson and Kate Kimble answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Navigating the Pathway to Public Trust. Here are just a few of their responses. &[...]

Thoughts on Self Care from Dr. Michael Gomez

We loved this reminder that Dr. Michael Gomez shared during his webinar, "Beyond Self Care: The CE-CERT Model for Secondary Trauma and Burnout." "Self Care is more than a bubble [...]

Thoughts on Reputation from Dennis Nayor

Chief Dennis Nayor always has so many great insights to share during his webinars. This was just one that caught our attention: "Your reputation is your number one attribute." Click [...]

Thoughts on the Ingredients for Success from Dennis Nayor

Chief Dennis Nayor always has so many great insights to share during his webinars. This was just one that caught our attention: "Correct Staffing, Support, and Resources are the trifecta [...]

Thoughts about Fixing Problems from Brenda Dietzman

We loved this reminder that Brenda Dietzman shared during her webinar, Leading at Any Level. "Don't walk by problems. Fix it. Or find someone who can." Click Here for [...]

Thoughts about goals from Brenda Dietzman

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After the Webinar: Psychological Safety – Creating a Culture of Trust on Your Team. Q&A with Al Cobos

Webinar presenter Al Cobos answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Psychological Safety: Creating a Culture of Trust on Your Team and Organization. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: Empathetic Leadership – Building a Culture of Trust. Q&A with Katharine Manning

Webinar presenter Katharine Manning answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Empathetic Leadership: Building a Culture of Trust. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience [...]

After the Webinar: Yes, You Can Fundraise! Q&A with Julie Bank

Webinar presenter Julie Bank answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Yes, You Can Fundraise! Fundraising for Animal Welfare Government Agencies. Here are just a few of her [...]

After the Webinar: NG911 – It’s More than Just Technology. Q&A with Halcyon Frank

Webinar presenter Halcyon Frank answered a number of your questions after her presentation, NG911: It's More than Just Technology. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: [...]

Thoughts about Change from Jackalyn Rainosek

We loved this reminder that Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek shared during her webinar, "Embracing Change: Pain Comes from Resistance to Change." "Change is a process, it's never just a single event." &[...]

Thoughts about Internal Justice from Bobby Kipper

What a super reminder that Bobby Kipper shared during his webinar, "Actively Caring for People: Seven Principles for Criminal Justice Agencies." "Justice Isn't just an internal process. It is an [...]

Thought about Progress from Brenda Dietzman

It's easy to get caught up in trying to be perfect. But the journey isn't about perfection... as Brenda Deitzman reminded us during her webinar, "Leadership Reset: Setting Goals for [...]

Thoughts on Failure from Brenda Dietzman

No one likes to talk about failure.. but failure is a part of growth and development. Here's just one great reminder Brenda Dietzman shared during her webinar, "Leadership Reset: Setting [...]

Thoughts on Inclusiveness from Ken Clary

Ken Clary shared a number of great reminders during his webinar, "Creating a Culture of Inclusiveness: Recruiting a Diverse Workforce." Here's just one that caught our attention. "Inclusiveness is contagious." &[...]

Thoughts on Changing Culture from Chief Ken Clary

Chief Ken Clary had so many great insights to share during his webinar, "Creating a Culture of Inclusiveness: Recruiting a Diverse Workforce." "It can take seven years to change the [...]

After the Webinar: Leadership Reset – Setting Goals for the New Year. Q&A with Brenda Dietzman

Webinar presenter Brenda Dietzman answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Leadership Reset: Setting Goals for the New Year. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

Thoughts on Organizational Culture from Bobby Kipper

What a super reminder that Bobby Kipper shared during his webinar, "Actively Caring for People: Seven Principles for Criminal Justice Organizations." "Culture sets climate. What we allow is what we [...]

Thoughts about emotional reactions from Kathy Murphy

Kathy Murphy shared so many insights during her webinar, "Trusting Your Own Personal GPS to Solve Problems." "Emotion cannot occur without a thought to react to." Thanks, Kathy! Click [...]

Thoughts on Listening to Victims from Rod Underhill

Rod Underhill made a number of great points during the presentation Attention Prosecutors: Here's Why and How to Elevate Your Office's Trust and Legitimacy Practices. Here's just one of our [...]

Thoughts on Positive Behavior from Bobby Kipper

We just loved this comment that Bobby Kipper made during his webinar, Building Performance: Understanding the EAC Factors for Criminal Justice Professionals. "The best way to stop negative behavior is [...]

Thoughts on Investigations from Jonni Redick

Jonni Redick always has an interesting way of reminding her audiences of important points or concepts we should learn. This was one that caught our attention during her webinar, Assessment [...]

Thoughts on Small Changes from Jonni Redick

Jonni Redick always has such great insights and reminders during her webinars. This point, made during her webinar, Assessment Center and Oral Panel Interview Preparation: Tips and Strategies for Justice [...]

Thoughts on Knowledge from Brenda Dietzman

Brenda Dietzman shared a number of important reminders during her webinar, Women in Leadership: A Panel Discussion about Opportunities, Hurdles, and Benefits. This was one that particularly caught our attention. "[...]

Thoughts on Empowering Women from Tira Hubbard

Tira Hubbard made some great points during our panel discussion, Women in Leadership: A Panel Discussion about Opportunities, Hurdles, and Benefits. This was one that particularly caught our attention. "Empowered [...]

After the Webinar: After Incident Analysis. Q&A with Dr. Jeff Fox

Webinar presenter Dr. Jeff Fox answered a number of your questions after his presentation, After Incident Analysis: Best Practices and Recommendations. Here are just a few of his responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Empowered People Empower 911. Q&A with Sara Weston

Webinar presenter Sara Weston answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Empowered People Empower 911. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: How do you [...]

After the Webinar: The Top 10 Techniques for Dealing with Conflict. Q&A with Margaret Crowley

Webinar presenter Margaret Crowley answered a number of your questions after her presentation, The Top 10 Techniques for Dealing with Conflict. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience [...]

After the Webinar: I’m Promoted! Now What? Things to Consider from Day 1 to 365. Q&A with Jonni Redick

Webinar presenter Jonni Redick answered a number of your questions after her presentation, I'm Promoted! Now What? Things to Consider from Day 1 to 365. Here are just a few of her [...]

After the Webinar: Women in Leadership – A Panel Discussion about Opportunities, Hurdles and Benefits. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Tira Hubbard, Wendy Rich-Goldschmidt, and Brenda Dietzman answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Women in Leadership: A Panel Discussion about Opportunities, Hurdles, and Benefits. Here [...]

After the Webinar: From Buddy to Boss – Going from Supervisor to Superhero. Q&A with Dr. Ed Pallas

Webinar presenter Dr. Ed Pallas answered a number of your questions after his presentation, From Buddy to Boss: Going from Supervisor to Superhero. Here are just a few of his [...]

After the Webinar: Saying I “WIL”: Q&A with Ronna Martin

Webinar presenter Ronna Martin answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Saying I "WIL": Making the Commitment to Grow Women in Leadership in Corrections. Here are just a [...]

After the Webinar: Creating Positive Change – An Approach to Leadership in Turbulent Times. Q&A with Ken Clary

Webinar presenter Chief Ken Clary answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Creating Positive Change - An Approach to Leadership in Turbulent Times. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: The Impact of Leadership on Organizational Culture and Morale. Q&A with Obed Magny

Webinar presenter Dr. Obed Magny answered a number of your questions after his presentation, The Impact of Leadership on Organizational Culture and Morale. Here are just a few of his [...]

After the Webinar: Trusting Your Own Personal GPS to Solve Problems. Q&A with Kathy Murphy

Webinar presenter Kathy Murphy answered a number of your questions after her presentation Trusting Your Own GPS to Solve Problems. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience [...]

After the Webinar: High Risk Terminations. Q&A with Nick Spencer

Webinar presenter Nick Spencer answered a number of your questions after his presentation, High-Risk Terminations: Policies, Procedures, and Planning. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Micro-Habits – Navigating the Intersection of Work and Life. Q&A with Nicole Fredricks Jackson

Webinar presenter Nicole Fredricks Jackson answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Micro-Habits: Navigating the Intersection of Work and Life. Here are just a few of her responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Maslow in the Workplace. Q&A with Al Cobos

Webinar presenter Al Cobos answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Maslow in the Workplace: Creating Employees Who Contribute and Are Engaged. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Actively Caring for People – 7 Principles. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Bobby Kipper and Dr. Scott Geller answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Actively Caring for People: Seven Principles for Criminal Justice Organizations. Here are just [...]

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