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  • NIC’s APEX Initiative: Roadmap for Organizational Excellence and Change Sustainability

    Apex, from the Latin root, means peak or summit. Geographically, the apex is the highest possible point you can reach. Isn’t that what you want for your organization? NIC’s Achieving Performance Excellence (APEX) initiative can help. APEX is all about initiating, managing, and sustaining...
    Posted to NIC News & Updates by Tom Reid on Wed, Feb 6 2013
    Filed under: leadership development, Organizational Culture, organizational development, Performance Based Measurement System, Policy, staff performance enhancement, Highlight on NIC, spotlight on NIC, APEX, Change Management
  • New in the Library - APEX: Building the Model and Beginning the Journey

    Building the Model and Beginning the Journey is the first book in the APEX series for Achieving Performance Excellence, providing an overview of the APEX Journey—a roadmap for correctional agencies to use as they begin an organizational change initiative. Each of the eight domains in the APEX Public...
    Posted to NIC News & Updates by Susan Powell on Mon, Jan 30 2012
    Filed under: leadership development, Organizational Culture, organizational development, APEX
  • Putting the Pieces Together with Evidence-Based Practices

    The new title Putting the Pieces Together: Practical Strategies for Implementing Evidence-Based Practices is now available at the NIC Information Center Library . From the Forward by Director Morris L. Thigpen: Now that the term “evidence-based practice” (EBP) has become part of the professional dialogue...
    Posted to NIC News & Updates by S. Cairns on Thu, Mar 24 2011
    Filed under: Training, Organizational Culture, Inmate Behavior Management, organizational development, community corrections, advisory board, Executive, management development
  • Build Your Agency's Senior Level Leader Cadre Through NIC's Blended Correctional Leadership Development (CLD)!

    Looking to build your cadre of Senior Level Leaders as you face succession planning challenges? The check out NIC's Blended Correctional Leadership Development (CLD) series! What is blended CLD? It's a "blend" of training and development strategies (face to face sessions, distance work...
    Posted to NIC News & Updates by Leslie LeMaster on Wed, Apr 7 2010
    Filed under: Training, leadership development, senior level leader development, Parole, Small Jails, blended delivery, Jails, Sheriffs, Large Jails, Organizational Culture, NIC, organizational development, prisons, community corrections
  • Re: The Six Moving Parts of Correctional Training Effectiveness

    Hi Connie: Thanks for the reference to the article “The Six Moving Parts of Correctional Training Effectiveness”. I thought the article was very well written and thought provoking. I was particularly interested in the author’s ideas about how learning is transferred from the classroom, or computer lab...
    Posted to Correctional Trainers by Ray Ferns on Mon, Jan 11 2010
  • The Six Moving Parts of Correctional Training Effectiveness

    Earlier this year, NIC's Regional Training Initiative released a thought-provoking paper on strategic planning in corrections training. Authors Greg Morton and Aaron Shepherd, representing the training initiative's Western Region, present a model for making correctional training count. The six...
    Posted to Correctional Trainers by Connie Clem on Thu, Dec 31 2009
  • NIC Supervisory/managerial/executive competencies

    Hi, Everyone, Does anyone have or know of a 360 or self-assessment based on the NIC managerial and supervisory competeinces? Thanks. Joe Brodnicki TN Dept of Correction
    Posted to Correctional Trainers by Joe Brodnicki on Wed, Feb 6 2008
  • Succession Planning

    Hi, Has anyone had any experience with succession planning and management? Thanks. Joe Brodnicki TN Dept of Correction
    Posted to Correctional Trainers by Joe Brodnicki on Mon, Jan 14 2008
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