March 21st, 2023, Court Leader’s Advantage Podcast Episode Brought to You in Cooperation with NACM Numerous organizations, including courts, are embracing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. With that increasing acceptance, we are also seeing increasing resistance, and it is important to address that resistance directly. On the December episode we discussed the question “can hiring criteria, … Continue reading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Is It a Zero-Sum Proposition?
Hiring Ethical Employees: How Can We Hire “The Good Ones”?
Question of Ethics: A Conversation on Courts and Ethics – January 26, 2022, Episode Brought to You in Cooperation with NACM What actions can a court take to optimize the hiring of ethical staff? What can you do to ensure that the people you hire will adhere to your court’s Code of Conduct? Relying on the book by … Continue reading Hiring Ethical Employees: How Can We Hire “The Good Ones”?
Courts and the Homeless: How Should Courts Respond to This Crisis?
February 21st, 2023, Court Leader’s Advantage Podcast Episode Brought to You in Cooperation with NACM We see this growing crisis everywhere. We pass the cardboard sign at the intersection asking for donations and wishing us: “God Bless.” We see the blue tarp and shopping cart half hidden in that small grove of trees next to … Continue reading Courts and the Homeless: How Should Courts Respond to This Crisis?
Courts and Ethics: Should the U.S. Supreme Court Adopt a Code of Conduct?
January 17th, 2023, Court Leader’s Advantage Podcast Episode Brought to You in Cooperation with NACM Every state in our nation has a Judicial Code of Conduct. Every judge in each state is obligated to follow that state’s Code. Since 1973, most Federal judges have been subject to The Code of Conduct for United States Judges. There is … Continue reading Courts and Ethics: Should the U.S. Supreme Court Adopt a Code of Conduct?
Courts and Inside Information: What Can and Should We Do with What We Learn at Work?
Question of Ethics: A Conversation on Courts and Ethics – September 22, 2022, Episode Brought to You in Cooperation with NACM We are not stockbrokers or day traders, but in our role as court employees we learn a lot. We know about patterns of litigation against businesses and against professionals in the community. We know about protection orders … Continue reading Courts and Inside Information: What Can and Should We Do with What We Learn at Work?
Hiring Court Employees: Can Selection Criteria Be Objective?
December 20, 2022, Court Leader’s Advantage Podcast Episode Brought to You in Cooperation with NACM Courts have committed to the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion particularly in recruiting and selecting court employees. This commitment however has not been without controversy. One criticism has been that personnel recruitment and selection should be entirely objective and … Continue reading Hiring Court Employees: Can Selection Criteria Be Objective?
Court Rules and Procedures: Technological Innovation
Question of Ethics: A Conversation on Courts and Ethics – August 25, 2022 Episode Brought to You in Cooperation with NACM The COVID Pandemic brought the use of technology to the forefront of our conversation worldwide. Technology is expanding at breakneck speed. Is it out stripping courts' ability to manage new technological innovations? Relevant Ethics Canons Canon 1 … Continue reading Court Rules and Procedures: Technological Innovation
Courts and Confidence: Does The Public Look at Different Courts Differently?
November 15, 2022, Court Leader’s Advantage Podcast Episode Brought to You in Cooperation with NACM The public’s perception of our courts continues to be a topic of concern and curiosity for court professionals. Last month we discussed finding of the National Center for State Courts 2021 State of the State Courts survey that found that … Continue reading Courts and Confidence: Does The Public Look at Different Courts Differently?
Courts and Confidence: What Do We Know About How the Public Perceives the Courts?
October 18, 2022, Court Leader’s Advantage Podcast Episode Brought to You in Cooperation with NACM What do we know about how the public views our courts? We know that the public’s trust and confidence in courts has been slipping over the years. The 2021 National Center for State Courts State of the State Courts survey … Continue reading Courts and Confidence: What Do We Know About How the Public Perceives the Courts?
Courts and Customers: What Do Court Users Have to Tell Us?
Court Leader’s Advantage Podcast Episode: September 20, 2022 Brought to You in Cooperation with NACM Obtaining customer feedback, obtaining usable feedback, obtaining enough of it to be able to rationally modify court programs, all of these are major hurdles. And yet getting good customer feedback is so important. It is important to complete the loop: to … Continue reading Courts and Customers: What Do Court Users Have to Tell Us?
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