NAPD Leadership Institute Virtual 2021

• Defining Client Centered Representation and Leadership v. other centers
• Identifying challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes inherent in Client Centered Representation
• 3 questions exercise
  Why did you first become a public defender?
  Why are you still doing it?
  What was one of your best days.
•  Explore the Public Defender Motivational Triad

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Taking stock of your position as a leader, idenifying areas for potential change, and setting goals for your office and yourself.  

• The Role of Motivation and Inspiration
• Key Elements required to increase engagement and performance
• The power of modeling
• Developing Credibility - Equity Theory
• Being Proactive and Communicating Clear Expectations - (Dare to Lead, Brene Brown)

• Effective leaders require more than basic skills to motivate their teams, especially when we have tackle macro issues.
  In this session we review and discuss: 
  • How do we move our staff from good to great; demanding better performance?
  • What impact does the ability to inspire and motivate have on others?
  • How does it impact engagement? What if you don’t have it and have learned to lead by force?
  • Choosing to be Strategically Vulnerable

1. What is Culture?
2. Relationship Between Culture and Values
3. The Role of Leadership in Driving Culture Change
4. Building A Model Around Culture Change
5. Putting Culture to Work in Creating Change

video from Austin 2019 leadership institute

• Discuss each of the Four Frames and how to analyze problems and create solutions using them.
• How to use multiple frame thinking.
• How to choose which frame to use in analysis and problem-solving.Identifying the difference between an adaptive and a technical problem.
• Creating a holding environment to allow for adaptation.
• Using adaptive leadership to change culture

4 Frames Resources
Assessment 

As leaders, it is imperative that we understand the importance of having difficult or crucial conversations and to hold ourselves and others in our agency accountable to do the same.  If we don’t understand the impact that not having these conversations can have, we aren’t fully recognizing our potential to improve relations with our direct reports and within the agency as a whole.

Group Discussion
Glenn E. Singleton, creator of the Courageous Conversations Protocol and author of Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools — a framework used in school districts across the country — identifies four agreements necessary for beginning conversations about race in schools: Stay engaged, experience discomfort, speak your truth, and expect and accept non-closure. During this session, we will put into practice and model the importance of having difficult conversations about race, class, power and privilege.

I believe that in any business/organization, our people are our most important asset. That is particularly true in Public Defender Offices since we are in the “business” of helping others. As such, it’s important leaders consistently engage in a variety of management and leadership techniques to help our people do and be better. As such, we’ll discuss the importance of and share tools to build solid relationships in your organization. We’ll also discuss how performance evaluations remain an integral tool in talent development since they help our individual team members know what’s expected of them and helps them to master their skills. I find that we, as leaders, often encounter the same perils (halo effect, recency issues, only addressing issues once a year, etc.) so we’ll use this time together to talk through common performance evaluation challenges, discuss what should be included in performance evaluations, and we’ll end with some tools to develop a variety of SMART goals that can help to improve performance and empower your staff to further their career objectives and your organization’s mission, vision, and values.

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Applying NAPD Ten Principles for Creating Sustainability in Public Defense in your organization

Derwyn and Brendon will share examples of external leadership and offer ideas for how you can become a more effective client-focused external leader by

• Surveying the environment
• Identifying Allies
• Listening and Reaching out
• Developing Media strategies

Discussion of what we have learned and where do we go from here.