Your Guide to Holding Steady The adaptive leadership behavior, holding steady, it about managing your emotional response during times of change. Learn in 3 1/2 minutes strategies to manage conflict, deal with politics and hold people accountable in the heat of action.
Creating a Supportive Community Context People need to feel that as child welfare professionals, they are a valued partner in the larger community and that everyone is collaborating together to support children, youth and families. This 5 minute module describes how people need to be included in meaningful decision-making and see that diversity and individual …
The Caseworker’s Role in a Results-Oriented Culture (7 minutes) Designed for caseworkers, this Quickbit explores how workers can contribute to, and benefit from, practicing in a results-oriented culture. The module provides specific strategies for looking at data in a worker’s caseload and how focusing on data-based decision making is important in contributing to the outcomes …
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Giving Work Back ( 3 1/2 minutes) Heifetz and his co-authors identified seven major behaviors that can help you address challenges successfully and manage change (see #1 below). This microlearning will focus on one of those – giving work back to the people.
Creating a Learning Culture (5.5 minutes) Helping staff grow professionally is a key workforce development strategy. This includes both a comprehensive training infrastructure and promoting a learning culture where continuous learning is encouraged. This module includes a self-assessment and strategies to promote a learning culture within an agency.
Leadership Foundations This leadership module first explores different leadership styles, including strengths-based, adaptive, transformational, and daring leadership. These leadership styles have in common certain behaviors that help leaders navigate the complexity of child welfare. The final section of this module describes NCWWI’s research-based leadership framework, which supports the development of child welfare leaders regardless of …
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Dealing With the Effects of Secondary Trauma (4 minutes) Secondary trauma is a predictable and frequent occurrence in child welfare. This short module, just under four minutes in length, describes the important role of leaders in recognizing and intervening in the experience of secondary trauma.
LAS Foundations Welcome to the NCWWI Leadership Academy for Supervisors FoundationsModule! This national version provides the latest content to anyone who would benefit from this self paced training. Pre-Work: Foundations Learning Portfolio Packet and Foundations Pre-Work Save and/or print now to use later while going through the on-line training module. References and Acknowledgements
Creating a Supportive Culture (4 minutes) People are motivated to stay on the job when their basic safety and security needs are met, and when they feel supported, both personally and in their work. This four minute interactive module describes strategies that leaders at all levels can implement to create a more supportive environment.
Get on the Balcony Leadership requires assessing the overall environment which can be done by stepping back to view the patterns, relationships, and context. It’s the understanding of the big picture that separates leadership from management. We know this isn’t as easy as it sounds so this microlearning (just over 3 minutes) will provide some …
