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Leadership:
Effective leaders create a positive organizational climate supporting a healthy workforce that, in turn, promotes improved practice and positive outcomes for children and families. Leadership from every seat means that staff in all positions are able to manage change and identify and respond to adaptive challenges by engaging meaningfully with others. The resources in this category provide guidance on how to effectively lead in child welfare.
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| Title | Content | Categories | Type | Year |
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| 9 Proven Strategies to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Your Workplace | This article lists 9 ways to improve DEIB within your workplace. | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Leadership Foundations | This leadership module first explores different leadership styles, including strengths-based, adaptive, transformational, and daring leadership. These leadership styles have in … | Leadership | eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | |
| Introduction to Leadership and Workforce Development | This course is a series of three modules that together provide research-based foundational knowledge, language, frameworks, and approaches to strengthen … | Leadership, Supervision | eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | |
| COVID-19 Lessons Learned for Child Welfare: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This resource explores child welfare caseworkers’ perspectives on how organizational changes during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic affected … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2023 |
| NCWWI Leadership Academy | The NCWWI Leadership Academy provides supervisors and managers with opportunities to become skilled in leading change, fostering collaborations, implementing results-oriented … | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Supervision, Training, Trauma-informed Practice, Workforce Development Planning | Curricula/Training Material, eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2020 |
| Dear Leaders Tool | This resource includes starting points for child welfare leaders who seek to bring family voice and power into the system. | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Supports, System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| System Transformation Through Community Leadership: Strategies for building effective partnerships with Black and Brown communities | Chapin Hall has compiled key findings into five system transformation equity bulletins and a toolkit to make lessons from the … | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual, Website | |
| Promoting Antiracist Child Welfare Practice: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This 1-pager summarizes a study where authors interviewed 16 regional- and state-level public child welfare agency administrators representing 13 states … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Humor | An overview of humor in the workplace. | Burnout, Leadership, Mentoring, Performance Improvement, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2020 |
| Perceptions of Organizational Politics | An overview of perceptions of organizational politics, their value, and what contributes to them. | Burnout, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2020 |
| Psychological Safety | An overview of psychological safety in the workplace, its value, what contributes to it and how it can be increased. | Leadership, Mentoring, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits, Worker Safety | Overview/Summary | 2020 |
| Mindfulness | An overview of mindfulness, how it can be increased, and its impact on workplace outcomes. | Leadership, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2020 |
| Grit | An overview of grit as a personality trait and how it can be improved. | Leadership, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2020 |
| Psychological Contract Breach | An overview of a psychological contract breach, its importance, and how it can be reduced. | Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Performance Improvement, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Supervision, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2020 |
| Employee Engagement | An overview of employee engagement, what contributes to it, and strategies to improve it. | Leadership, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2020 |
| Emotional Intelligence Training | An overview of emotional intelligence training and its connection to workplace outcomes. | Education/Professional Development, Leadership, Performance Improvement, Supervision, Training | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Leadership Training | An overview of leadership training and its’ value. | Education/Professional Development, Leadership, Training | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Time Management | An overview of time management and how to improve it. | Leadership, Mentoring, Performance Improvement, Supervision | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Political Skill | An overview of the ability to effectively understand others at work, and to use such knowledge to influence others to … | Burnout, Leadership, Mentoring, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Leader Member Exchange | An overview of the quality of the dyadic relationship formed between a leader and follower, otherwise known as leader member … | Leadership, Performance Improvement, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Transformational Leadership | An overview of the four facets of transformational leadership: idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration. | Leadership, Supervision | Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Using a Culturally Responsive Leadership Framework: NCWWI 1-page Summary | The authors developed a culturally responsive leadership framework (CRLF) to address context, distributive leadership, and cultural responsiveness. Examining these elements … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Supervision, Training, Vision, Mission, and Values, Workforce Development Planning | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Centering Child Welfare Worker Well-being | This infographic describes how child welfare organizations can center child welfare worker well-being to better support children and families. | Advancing Racial Equity, Burnout, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Training, Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | Infographic, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Safe and Sound: Creating and Nurturing a Culture of Safety | This flyer provides an overview of the Connecticut Safe and Sound Culture, including definitions of the Five Rs of Safe … | Communication, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, System Reform, Trauma-informed Practice, Vision, Mission, and Values, Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Holding Retention Reviews: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This product summarizes how leaders can use retention reviews to collect ideas on how to improve employees’ work experiences and … | Burnout, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Turnover | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| How Peer Support Can Reduce Burnout and Improve Worker Well-being | This infographic describes how peer support can reduce burnout and improve worker well-being, including how organizations can champion peer support … | Burnout, Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Leadership, Mentoring, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Training, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Infographic, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| America Needs All of Us: A Toolkit for talking about bias, race, and change | This toolkit was created to be a communications resource for those working in the field of immigration and immigrant integration. … | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2021 |
| Are We There Yet? A Communications Evaluation Guide | This guide explores current practices in evaluating communications as well as the challenges faced by today’s professionals. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2008 |
| Finding and Reaching the Audience for Your Narrative Project | This worksheet supports finding and reaching an audience for your narrative project by exploring “who, what, and where” (i.e., who … | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Measuring Narrative Change: Understanding Progress and Navigating Complexity | This brief explores the concepts that underlie narrative change work and what these mean for measurement; think more about measuring … | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| Word Force Messaging Worksheet | This worksheet is a tool to help identify messages for an op-ed that support one’s long term narrative goals. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | Tool/Guide/Manual | |
| Narrative Change: A Working Definition (and Some Related Terms) | This brief provides a list of definitions of terms related to narrative change. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2019 |
| Persuasive Storytelling: Discover the power of your personal story | This guide provides tools to support individuals in telling their personal stories. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | Tool/Guide/Manual | |
| Storytelling as a Catalyst for Systems Change | This brief provides a high-level overview of how storytelling can move systems change. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| The Irresistible Power of Storytelling as a Strategic Business Tool | This article from the Harvard Business Review explains why storytelling is a powerful tool that can inspire others to action. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2014 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing: Engaging Emerging Leaders as a Retention Strategy | Held on May 26, 2022, this learning exchange focused on how universities and agencies engage social work students and graduates … | Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Leadership, Mentoring, Retention, University Partnerships, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2022 |
| Leadership Academy Evaluation Guide | This guide provides an overview of evaluation activities and resources that a state, county, tribal, or private child welfare agency … | Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Leadership, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing: Advancing Workplace Equity | This learning exchange, held on April 19, 2022, focused on how participants can advance workplace equity in child welfare. Panelists … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, University Partnerships, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2022 |
| We Are Child Welfare Campaign: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to improve public perceptions of the organization and build deeper consensus with the public by … | Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Town Hall Meeting: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to improve understanding of the political situation as it relates to the program by bringing … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Costing Out Turnover: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to assess the justification for a retention program by evaluating the costs of turnover. It … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| What’s My Conflict Style: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to become aware of your conflict management style and how it potentially influences conflictual situations. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Regulate the Conflict Temperature: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to encourage creative tension with a group (e.g., team, organization) by implementing strategies to bring … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Structured Sharing: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to build consensus in a group by influencing and negotiating through use of structured sharing … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Seeking to Understand: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to gain a more thorough understanding of alternative viewpoints and the rationale behind them. It … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Applying a Political Perspective: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand how political perspectives affect the organization’s functioning and reality. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Agency Shadow Tour: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to increase sensitivity to and respect for others by becoming better acquainted with people at … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Solutions in Rounds: Learning Circles: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to engage in a dialogue to identify and analyze relevant unit or organization issues and … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Dissecting a Decision: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to improve decision-making by studying a previously made decision, the decision-making process, and the impact … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Tech-Out Planning & Organizing: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to use technology to plan and organize a project or initiative to increase communication and … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Data Storytelling: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to capture the story behind the data and facilitate the connection between the staff’s work … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Data Comparison: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand data more holistically by comparing differences among unit, office, or county and then … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Dig Deeper in Data: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand the significance of organization data for improving outcomes. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Jump-Start Diversity Initiative: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to foster a more diverse workplace. It is a part of the NCWWI Leadership Tool … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Diversity Assessment: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to become aware of strategies to diversify your program, unit, division, or organization. It is … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Privilege Walk: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand privilege and explore the ways it is experienced based on being a member … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Is Yours a Learning Organization?: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to build an organizational culture that promotes and supports learning. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Taking it Higher: Elevating Morale: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to applaud resilience within the unit, division, or organization through a strategic approach to improving … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Why People Stay Interviews: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand why people stay with the organization, especially how they overcame obstacles to remain. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Way to Go!: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to validate employees’ efforts through a formal reward and recognition program. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Building Resiliency: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to increase awareness of how to build resiliency and provide resources and information to staff. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Group Learning Club: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to create a culture of continuous learning. It is a part of the NCWWI Leadership … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Welcome Aboard!: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to model interpersonal relations by developing a program exhibiting an inclusive, hospitable, and friendly environment. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| The Sunny Side: Strengths Assessment: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to assess strengths within your organization so you understand areas that are lacking and/or build … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Team Scorecard: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to apply competencies to facilitate improved cooperation and goal orientation. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Team Building/Team Unifying: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to apply competencies in fostering team cohesion and motivation. It is a part of the … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| My Flexibility Quotient: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to assess your ability to change and be open to new information and changing conditions. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Best Practice Approach Lunch & Learn: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to explore new ideas and innovations to address organization issues. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Technology Transfer: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to explore the latest innovations in technology and their application to the organization. It is … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Child Welfare in the News: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to consider current issues and trends relevant to child welfare in the United States and … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Upside Down, Inside Out: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to develop new insights by analyzing and reviewing existing tasks, activities, and systems. It is … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Implementation Science Applied: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to apply implementation science to a current initiative, program, policy, or practice to plan and … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Listening to the Family Voice: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to develop new insights about organization programs to promote innovative practice. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Got Change?: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand an individual’s or team’s readiness for change, bring awareness to the process, promote … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Through an Adaptive Lens: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to analyze an issue through an adaptive lens to more thoroughly understand an issue situation … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Purposeful Mission and Vision Integration: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to reinforce that all organization initiatives are connected to the organization’s vision and mission. It … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Logic Modeling: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to think through how an initiative will achieve its ultimate goal through an incremental process. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Living By The Code: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand how the Social Work Code of Ethics manifests in organization behavior. It is … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Values Assessment: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to compare personal and organization values to better understand and align values. It is a … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| My Vision Statement: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand your personal leadership vision so you can manifest it more intentionally through leadership … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Host Racial Equity Deep Discussion: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to facilitate deep discussions about racial equity leading to action. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Dial in a New Communication Channel: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to employ new communication channels to increase transparency and information sharing. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Self Care By Example: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you model self-care to others. It is a part of the NCWWI Leadership Tool Kit. | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Learning & Living Leadership Tool Kit | This tool kit is your opportunity to develop and practice your leadership skills so that you can positively impact children, … | Adaptive Leadership, Coaching, Leadership, Training | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| A Checklist for Emerging Leaders | This document provides tips and resources to promote the development of emerging leaders’ critical leadership skills, and ways child welfare … | Education/Professional Development, Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Empowering the Child Welfare Workforce and its Emerging Leaders | On September 28, 2021. a panel hosted by NCWWI and CWLA presented helpful steps that emerging leaders can take to … | Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2021 |
| How can child welfare leaders and providers reimagine support for children and families? | Child welfare systems across the country are looking for opportunities to move upstream and offer proactive support to children and … | Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Leadership Competency Framework Guide | The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute’s (NCWWI) Leadership Competency Framework, updated in 2020, provides a model to develop, guide, and … | Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2020 |
| NCWWI Communications Guide: How to Advance Organizational Goals through Effective Messaging, Storytelling, and Public Relations | The NCWWI Communications Guide (the Guide) helps child welfare programs’ initiate or improve their existing communications strategies to build public … | Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2020 |
| The Views of Many: 360 feedback for child welfare leadership development: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a study that evaluated a 360 feedback and assessment process for child welfare leaders who particpated in … | Leadership | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2020 |
| Introduction to Results Count Path to Equity | This introduction describes four skills that help leaders to achieve better and more equitable results. The skills are part of … | Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2019 |
| An Example of Leadership Transfer of Learning Through the NCWWI Toolkit: Learning and Living Leadership | This document provides a series of activities to cultivate the leadership competencies from the NCWWI Leadership Model and Competency Framework … | Leadership | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Bridging the Gap: A Learning Activity on Effective Multidisciplinary Collaboration | This paper highlights a learning activity that demonstrates the principles of collaboration and the impact it has within the field … | Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2014 |
| Competency-based Leadership Development | This article describes a competency-based leadership development program in child welfare that has demonstrated effectiveness by developing a comprehensive competency … | Leadership | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Training and Development in Human Services: Special Issue on Leadership Development | This special issue of Training and Development in Human Services focuses on leadership development and includes articles on competency-based leadership … | Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2014 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Agency Leadership | This webpage provides resources that describe aspects of leadership and leadership strategies that can improve agency effectiveness and impact the … | Leadership | Infographic, NCWWI-Product | 2019 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing and Making a Difference | The video provides an overview of the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) through the perspectives of NCWWI’s diverse partnerships. … | Leadership | Competencies, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2013 |
| Leadership Competency Framework | This document provides the NCWWI competency framework, which reflects the multi-dimensional nature of the child welfare field and the corresponding … | Adaptive Leadership, Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Reference/Resource List | 2011 |
| Open to All Voices (4 minute microlearning) | Working effectively with a variety of stakeholders impacted by a change requires a diverse set of competencies which is why … | Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2017 |
| Think Politically (2.5 minute microlearning) | This microlearning (2 1/2 minutes) explains ways to think politically, one of the seven behaviors of adaptive leadership. Completing this course will help … | Leadership | Webinar/Presentation | 2017 |
| 7 Behaviors of Adaptive Leadership (5 minute microlearning) | This microlearning (5 minutes) explains the difference between technical and adaptive challenges, and describes the seven major behaviors identified by … | Leadership | eLearning Module, Video | 2017 |
| Regulating Distress (3 minute microlearning) | This microlearning focuses on one of the seven behaviors of adaptive leadership – regulating distress. Completing this course will develop … | Leadership | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| Orchestrating Conflict (2 minute microlearning) | Heifetz and his co-authors identified seven major behaviors that can help you address challenges successfully and manage change. This microlearning … | Leadership | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| Get on the Balcony (3 minute microlearning) | This three minute microlearning course provides strategies for “getting on the balcony” which is one of the seven behaviors of … | Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2016 |
| New Jersey Fellows: Building Capacity in “Managing by Data” to Improve Leadership, Frontline Practice & Case Outcomes | This webinar showcases an innovative program at the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (NJ DCF) to build capacity … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2012 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing and Making a Difference | The video provides an overview of NCWWI through the perspectives of NCWWI’s diverse partners. It explains how NCWWI’s workforce development … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation | NCWWI-Product, Video | 2014 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Agency Leadership | This webpage provides resources that describe aspects of leadership and leadership strategies that can improve agency effectiveness and impact the … | Adaptive Leadership | Reference/Resource List | 2019 |
| Emotional Intelligence for Leaders: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This paper summarizes the chapter, “On Leadership” by D. Goleman which describes that while intellect, big picture thinking, and long-term … | Leadership | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2019 |
| For Missouri Field Support Manager, It’s All About Relationships | Dana Jones, a Field Support and Training Manager in Missouri, was facing high staff turnover rates and an over-stressed child … | Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| Leading Through Understanding the Role of Life Stories | Understanding the personal journey – or context – that leads people to a career in child welfare is an important … | Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Video | 2018 |
| Effective Leadership for Tribal Child Welfare | This guide provides some basic information on how to establish effective tribal governance and the role of tribal leadership in … | Leadership | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2015 |
| Ten Conversations Leaders Use to Move Results Forward | This video describes ten conversations that results-based leaders can use to achieve results and move to higher action and higher … | Leadership | Video | 2016 |
| Leadership in Systems of Care: Creating and Communicating a Shared Vision | This brief describes the importance of a shared vision, the critical role of leadership, essential characteristics of successful leaders, and … | Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2011 |
| Leadership and Inclusion: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document explores the role of authentic leadership (AL) in enhancing perceptions of inclusion and also examines two outcomes potentially related … | Leadership | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |
| Teaming for Success: Planning and Facilitating Effective Team Meetings | This training course provides effective strategies for facilitators to employ before, during, and after meetings that will improve participation and … | Leadership | Curricula/Training Material | 2015 |
| Teaming for Success: Leading Teaming | This training course focuses on techniques to build a teaming culture both inside an agency and with outside system partners, … | Leadership | Curricula/Training Material | 2015 |
| Leadership and the Parallel Process | This training course provides a framework to examine the parallel process between the leader, the employee and the client as … | Leadership | Curricula/Training Material | 2013 |
| Foundations of Leadership | This training course introduces administrators to leadership and organizational effectiveness, outlines the development of a change plan that engages staff … | Leadership | Curricula/Training Material | 2018 |
| The Dawn of Systems Leadership | This article describes key skills and tools used by system leaders, those who catalyze collective leadership to address difficult problems … | Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2015 |
| Beyond Quick Fixes: Effective Agency Leadership in a Changeable Environment | This the third in a series of articles regarding the current status of child protection services in the United States … | Leadership | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Using Strengths-Based Leadership to Improve the Child Welfare System | This articles describes how the Neighborhoods for Kids program effectively achieved improved safety, well-being, and permanency of children in the … | Leadership | Report/Paper | 2013 |
| Extraordinary Leadership: Suncoast Region | This training video discusses leadership traits, principles, and qualities; a number of critical skills (i.e. active listening) and essential practices … | Leadership | Webinar/Presentation | 2013 |
| Leadership Resources with PowerPoints (Georgia) | This website provides presentations on leadership competencies to include influencing change, developing leaders, managing conflict, inspiring and influencing others. | Leadership | Curricula/Training Material | 2006 |
| DCFS Training for New County Directors (Georgia): Workshop No. 3 – Personnel Management (Trainer’s Guide) | This workshop guide reinforces and builds on participants’ entry abilities, introduces how current policies relate to County Directors and personnel … | Leadership | Curricula/Training Material | 2006 |
| DCFS Training for New County Directors (Georgia): Workshop No. 2 – Program & Workload Management (Trainer’s Guide) | This workshop guide reinforces and builds on participants’ entry abilities, introduces how current policies relate to County Directors and personnel … | Leadership | Curricula/Training Material | 2006 |
| DCFS Training for New County Directors (Georgia): Workshop No. 1 – Leadership (Participant’s Guide) | This workshop guide identifies and explores the leadership qualities that contribute to success as a County Director, and includes: The … | Leadership | Curricula/Training Material | 2006 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Leadership Guidance | This document offers guidance on where leaders and their teams should spend their time and energy, how to assess and … | Leadership | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2010 |
| Media Toolkit for Child Welfare Leaders | This document provides tips and strategies child welfare leaders can use to work effectively with the media and to increase … | Leadership | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2013 |
| Leading Practice: A Resource Guide for Child Protection Leaders | This guide operationalizes five leadership capabilities – critical reflection, engaging others, managing oneself, delivering results and leading and inspiring. It … | Leadership | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Organizational Leadership: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This paper summarizes the article “Organizational Leadership and Its Impact on Social Workers’ Job Satisfaction: A National Study”, which reports … | Leadership | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2019 |
| Leadership in the Improving Child Welfare Outcomes through Systems of Care Initiative | This brief is designed to enhance understanding of the role of leadership in bringing about systems change. Drawing on qualitative … | Leadership | Report/Paper | 2010 |
| Leadership & Child Welfare Systems: The Role of State Legislators | This report discusses the importance of the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) as a tool for legislators in assessing … | Leadership | Report/Paper | 2008 |
| Advice to a New Child Services Leader | This paper conveys the lessons learned from Judge James W. Payne, along with suggestions and tips for making child services … | Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2011 |
| Learning & Living the NCWWI Leadership Model (1-page Summary) | This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that provides an in-depth exploration of the NCWWI’s Leadership Model for child welfare. Link … | Adaptive Leadership | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2013 |
| Strengths Based Teams (4 minute microlearning) | The path to great leadership starts with a deep understanding of the strengths you bring to the table. Since no … | Adaptive Leadership, Leadership | Curricula/Training Material, NCWWI-Product | 2017 |
| Open to All Voices (4 minute microlearning) | Working effectively with a variety of stakeholders impacted by a change requires a diverse set of competencies which is why … | Adaptive Leadership | Curricula/Training Material, NCWWI-Product | 2017 |
| Child welfare matters: Leading Adaptively in Child Welfare | This issue focuses on integrating the concepts and tools of adaptive leadership into training and technical assistance (TTA) work, exercising … | Adaptive Leadership | Overview/Summary | 2013 |
| Adaptive Leadership: Practical Application | This 90-minute webinar explains the diagnostic framework for determining the adaptive challenge and how to mobilize the system to implement … | Adaptive Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2013 |
| An Example of Leadership Transfer of Learning Through the NCWWI Toolkit: Learning and Living Leadership | This document provides a series of activities to cultivate the leadership competencies from the NCWWI Leadership Model and Competency Framework … | Adaptive Leadership | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Bridging the Gap: A Learning Activity on Effective Multidisciplinary Collaboration | This paper highlights a learning activity that demonstrates the principles of collaboration and the impact it has within the field … | Adaptive Leadership | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Competency-based Leadership Development | This article describes a competency-based leadership development program in child welfare that has demonstrated effectiveness by developing a comprehensive competency … | Adaptive Leadership | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Training and Development in Human Services: Special Issue on Leadership Development | This special issue of Training and Development in Human Services focuses on leadership development and includes articles on competency-based leadership … | Adaptive Leadership | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Communications | This guide addresses how to develop and implement a strategic communications plan that is aligned with the mission, vision and … | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2010 |
| Leading in Permanent Whitewater (7 minute microlearning) | Change is constant in our environment and in child welfare, in particular. Just under 8 minutes, this Quickbit describes the … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Leadership, Vision, Mission, and Values | Curricula/Training Material, eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2015 |
| Think Politically (2.5 minute microlearning) | This presentation explores the impact of implicit bias on organizational functioning, training design and delivery, and the broader organizational culture … | Adaptive Leadership, Community Engagement, Organizational Culture and Climate | Curricula/Training Material, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |
| Giving Work Back (3.5 minute microlearning) | Heifetz and his co-authors identified seven major behaviors that can help you address challenges successfully and manage change. This microlearning … | Adaptive Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate | Curricula/Training Material, eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |
| 7 Behaviors of Adaptive Leadership (5 minute microlearning) | This microlearning (5 minutes) explains the difference between technical and adaptive challenges, and describes the seven major behaviors identified by … | Adaptive Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate | Curricula/Training Material, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |
| Adaptive Leadership | This course explains the difference between adaptive challenges and technical work and provides opportunities to practice applying these concepts. It … | Adaptive Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate | Curricula/Training Material, eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |
| Regulating Distress (3 minute microlearning) | his microlearning focuses on one of the seven behaviors of adaptive leadership – regulating distress. Completing this course will develop … | Adaptive Leadership, Community Engagement, Organizational Culture and Climate, Work Conditions and Benefits | Curricula/Training Material, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |
| Orchestrating Conflict (2 minute microlearning) | Heifetz and his co-authors identified seven major behaviors that can help you address challenges successfully and manage change. This microlearning … | Adaptive Leadership, Community Engagement, Organizational Culture and Climate | Curricula/Training Material, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |
| Get on the Balcony (3 minute microlearning) | This three minute microlearning course provides strategies for “getting on the balcony” which is one of the seven behaviors of … | Adaptive Leadership, Community Engagement, Organizational Culture and Climate | Curricula/Training Material, eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |
| Your Guide to Holding Steady (3.5 minute microlearning) | This microlearning (3 1/2 minutes) explains ways to hold steady, one of the seven behaviors of adaptive leadership, during times … | Adaptive Leadership, Community Engagement, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate | Curricula/Training Material, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |