Education, Training, and Development

Program Management

Curriculum Guideline Four

Education, Training, and Development is not an end unto itself.  Rather, it supports court accountability for its core responsibilities and desired future.  Judicial branch education must be aligned with the court, its mission, vision, structure, and, very importantly, its internal workflows.  Linkage to human resources policy and practice is critical.  Quality judicial branch education is more likely when the court and its judicial branch education programs are well managed.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Skill in aligning judicial branch education with the court, its mission, vision, structure, and workflows;

• Ability to communicate expected behavior and court performance improvements resulting from Education, Training, and Development;

• Ability to oversee development and implementation of human resource policies, processes, and best practices that support and reward growth and development of court organizations, judges, judicial employees, and their justice system partners;

• Ability to identify and integrate education and training needs within human resource processes including recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, promotion, and other reward systems;

• Skill in establishing judicial branch education priorities, allocating resources, making decisions about program content, methods, and faculty;

• Skill in using education and training as a means of intervention, both personal and professional, and to bring about system-wide cooperation and problem solving;

• Skill in managing judicial branch education staff and faculty;

• Ability to recognize and reward excellent performance and to validate employee development;

• Ability to both direct staff and listen to them, and to ask effective clarifying questions as well as to tell them what is expected of them;

• Skill in mentoring and in encouraging mentoring throughout the judiciary;

• Skill in management of short-term projects and in developing this talent throughout the court;

• Ability to organize the court and its education function in order to adequately address succession planning;

• Skill in focusing judicial branch education on leadership and other employee transitions and the need to develop, motivate, retain, and recruit talented court employees.

• Skill in focusing judicial branch education on leadership and other employee transitions and the need to develop, motivate, retain, and recruit talented court employees.

View the Summary of Education, Training and Development Curriculum Guidelines or click on each of the other four Curriculum Guidelines to see the associated Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Curriculum Guidelines

Context and Vision

Resource Development

Adult Education Fundamentals

Program Management

Evaluation

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