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Are you a NACM Member?
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Yes
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If you are not a NACM member and would like to obtain credit towards the CORE Champion Program, you will need to make arrangements to pay the $10 for submission/credit. (core@nacmnet.org)
Select the Qualified Session You Participated In
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Strategic Planning: Tools, Strategies, and Best Practices for Strategic Visioning and Planning
Leadership: The Leadership Competency - Being a Resilient Leader
Leadership: The Leadership Challenges of Today and Tomorrow
Court Governance 101
Court Governance: Advanced Governance
Public Trust and Confidence: The Challenges
Purposes and Responsibilities: Purposes of Courts - The Challenges
Operations Management: The Kitchen Sink of Court Administration
Educational Development: Redesigning Education for the Virtual World
Workforce Management Session 1
Workforce Management Session 2
Ethics: Courts and the Pandemic: Are We at an Ethical Crossroads?
Caseflow Management: Caseflow and Workflow: Part 1
Caseflow Management: COVID-19: Caseflow Catalyst: Part 2
Public Relations
Budget and Fiscal Management
Caseflow 101: Essential Court Management Strategies
Accountability and Court Performance
Workforce Management: Onboarding: How to Set Up Your New Hires for Success
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Making DEI Real
Workforce Management: Is Your Workforce Sustainable?
Ethics: Can We Lead Leaders to An Ethical Tomorrow?
Workforce Management: Best Practices for Equitable and Inclusive Hiring
CORE Leadership Webinar
Leadership: Court Leadership Transitions: Leveraging Change
Leadership: I'm a Court Administrator - Now What?!
Educational Development
Transforming Courts: Leadership and Strategic Change
AI and Ethics
Operationalizing Your Strategic Plan: Turn Ideas into Action
Workforce Management: The Power of Coaching: The NACM Way
Does your organization actively engage in strategic planning?
(Required)
Yes
No
If so, how can you apply what you learned today regarding successful strategic planning to improve on your current planning process?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
If not, how can you apply what you learned today regarding successful strategic planning to start strategic planning in your organization? (at least four sentences)
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Describe one characteristic of a resilient leader. How has your role as a leader been (re)defined over the last two years? How have you exhibited the characteristics of a resilient leader?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
What leadership role and characteristics from the Leadership CORE competency have you exhibited in your court? Describe how you as a leader have responded to changes in your court environment.
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
What is court governance and why is it important? What is one idea that you learned about in this session that you would like to see implemented in your court and why?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
What does the governance structure look like in your court? Is it effective? What areas could be improved upon and why?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Identify and describe one method of evaluating the public’s trust and confidence and at least two challenges associated with this method. How can you apply this method in your court?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Name one of the purpose of the courts, how it relates to your position/work, and how are you going to apply or improve this purpose in your court.
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
The courts are complex organizations with a wide array of departments and functions that need to be maintained to support court operations. How has your court altered court operations due to statutory/rule changes and/or in response to demographics, trends, and social changes. What are some of the challenges that you have faced in navigating these changes?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Court leaders need to ensure that education is continuous, creative, inclusive, accessible, well- managed, delivered using multiple mechanisms, and that it is evaluated. Describe how your organization does this and how your organization could improve in this area.
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Why is it important to succession plan and how can you determine which roles are categorized? How does (or could) your organization benefit from succession planning?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Name the common types of annual performance reviews discussed during the session. Which is would be your preferred type and why? How can you identify and reduce common biases in this type of performance review? What bias do you think that your preferred performance type is most susceptible to?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Name an ethical issue that you or staff in your court are concerned about. How would you propose to address this issue?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Describe at least one caseflow best practice used in your court or that you would like to implement in your court. How has (or could) a pandemic or similar events influence this practice.
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Describe at least one caseflow best practice used in your court or that you would like to implement in your court. How has or could COVID19 or similar events influence and effect this practice.
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Why are Public Relations and communication to the public an important role of the court? How can these efforts effect public trust and confidence? How can your court improve in this area?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Name one of the ways presented in the session of how you will design your budget. What steps will you take to draft the budget, present the budget, and get final approval?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
What is caseflow management and why is it important? Discuss one lesson learned from this session and how you could implement this idea in your court. How would this improve caseflow and workflow?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
What accountability and court performance measures are utilized in your court? What measures(s) from this session would you like to implement in your court and why it is important for your court? Include descriptions of how to make use of the measures and what you expect from deploying them.
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Why is onboarding an important piece of Workforce Management? What is your court’s onboarding process? What is one idea that you learned in this session that could be added to your onboarding process?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
What challenges are you facing in your court/organization regarding recruitment of leaders? What ideas did you learn in this session that you could implement in your court/organization? How will you incorporate diversity and inclusion in this effort?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Why are ethics important to ensuring a fair and independent court system? Which of the NACM Model Code Canons discussed today do you see as a challenge for court leaders in your court/organization? How can this be overcome?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Describe: a. An effective action that helps resolve the Diversity and Inclusion “Pipeline Problem;” b. How you might implement that action in your court; and c. Indicate which NACM CORE Competency area or areas relate to your suggested action(s).
(Required)
(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Does your court have a hiring policy, use inclusive job descriptions, and/or implement strategies for removing unconscious bias from the interview process? Discuss at least one of these areas that your court is doing well and/or an area that can be improved on. Next, describe one item that you learned in this session that you would like to see implemented in your court/organization, how you would implement, and how will this impact your court/organization?
(Required)
(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Share if you are leader in the back, middle or front and why you think you are in that role? What are some of the strategies that you will employ to lead from different positions? And how will you look to build and support other leaders in their roles?
(Required)
(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Describe a leadership transition in your court. What were the challenges and the successes? How will you apply the lessons learned in this session to make future leadership transitions more successful?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Select two areas from the “worksheet” mentioned in this session where different success strategy areas are noted. How have you or how will you apply the concepts or questions in each of the areas.
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Why is educational development so important in the courts? How does your court invest in staff through education? Has this been effective? Where can your court improve based on what you learned in this session. How can you lead this change?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Have you actively participated in a strategic planning or significant change management effort?
(Required)
Yes
No
If Yes, what did you learn from this session that helps you understand why that (those) effort(s) did or did not go well?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
If No, what did you learn from this session that you could use to help bring about successful strategic change in your current organization?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Is your court utilizing artificial intelligence?
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Yes
No
If yes, what efforts have been made to address one or two of the ethical concerns discussed in this session?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
If no, what efforts and ethical considerations should be made if your court decides to utilize artificial intelligence?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
This session discussed assessments and analysis related to strategic planning. Choose one or two assessments and discuss how you currently (or would like to) utilize in your court. What positive impact does/could this have on your court’s strategic planning?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
Why is coaching an important part of developing your workforce/team? Note at least one of the lessons of good coaching and discuss briefly why or how it translates to the court workplace? If you “believe” in the power of coaching, what is one lesson learned in the session that you will personally try to use to coach your staff to success and why?
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(Please ensure that you answer the question(s) completely. Responses should be no less than six (6) complete sentences and should provide application of the content in the session viewed.)
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As a member or interested member of NACM, I affirm that I observed the presentation selected above.
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