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Visioning and Strategic Planning

Change and Alignment

Curriculum Guideline Four

Visioning and Strategic Planning facilitate change; link visioning, planning, and action; and move the court, its judges, staff, and their justice partners in a common direction toward shared commitments.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Ability to align day-to-day activities and the court’s strategic direction, and to sequence improvement activities;

  • Ability to solicit community and court stakeholder and staff feedback on completed and planned work;

  • Ability to help court insiders and outsiders understand how needed changes will impact them;

  • Skill in communicating the court’s vision and plans to the print and electronic media;

  • Skill in involving the community and building its understanding of the court’s vision and strategic plans;

  • Ability to monitor the court’s progress toward achieving goals and outcome-based measures as well as being able to take corrective action if needed;

  • Ability to use existing court and justice system committees and work groups to achieve long-term goals;

  • Knowledge of organizational change and project management dynamics and their application to court visioning and strategic planning;

  • Ability to make clear what is expected during and after change and to reward achievement and effort and to align performance and rewards;

  • Ability to inspire others (e.g., judges, staff, diverse court coalitions) to work together both to achieve the court’s vision as well as to implement the shared vision.

View the Summary of Visioning and Strategic Planning Curriculum Guidelines or click on each of the other four Curriculum Guidelines to see the associated Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Curriculum Guidelines

Court Purposes, Environment and Processes

Fundamentals

Organizational Foundations

Change and Alignment

Strategic Thinking

 


 

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