December 16th, 2025, Court Leader’s Advantage Podcast Episode Brought to You in Cooperation with the National Association for Court Management There are strong arguments favoring selection of court managers based on objective merit-focused criteria. While there is little desire to expand the “merit system” to the managerial level, hiring and promotion decisions rooted in proven … Continue reading Can Hiring a Court Manager Be Merit-Based?
Fulfilling the Public’s Trust: Competency
Competency is the sum of the knowledge and skills required for effective performance.
The 8 Tasks of Leadership
The 100th Vantage Point Blog post reflects on leadership amidst significant governmental changes in the U.S. It highlights the NACM CORE® Leadership Competency defining leadership as a vision-driven process. Effective leaders excel in eight tasks: setting direction, delegation, staffing, decision-making, motivating, managing dynamics, instituting culture, and communicating, guiding their organizations to success.
What are the Five Biggest Opportunities Facing Young Workers Today?
January 21st, 2025, Court Leader’s Advantage Podcast Episode Brought to You in Cooperation with the National Association for Court Management Last month we talked about the five biggest issues facing young workers. This month we will look at the five biggest opportunities young workers have in 2025. The five are: The Opportunity to Develop Valuable … Continue reading What are the Five Biggest Opportunities Facing Young Workers Today?
Staying Current in an Ever-Changing World
Self-development is vitally important to keep your skills current in our ever-changing world. Here are examples of how you can be a continuous learner.
Court Leadership and Problem Solving, Issue #1
This issue begins a new series with a review of a variety of problem solving techniques - useful to court leaders in addressing problems large or small.
I’m a Court Administrator – Now What?! Issue #10
This issue, #10, reviews the court leader practice of recording and journaling.
Fulfilling the Public’s Trust: Innovative Practices
Innovative practices are a key component of a learning and growing organization, and as such is one of my fundamental professional values. This post is part of an ongoing series about those values.
Rule of Law Index – 2023 Update
The 2023 Rule of Law Index of the World Justice Project is now available. It highlights how the Rule of Law is declining in a majority of countries. We can and just do better!
The Human Side of Performance Metrics
In last month's blog post, Measuring DEI (Measuring DEI – Court Leader), I wrote that truly effective DEI efforts have a robust evaluation component to enable us to know whether our DEI efforts are successful. A key part of evaluation is a measurement framework. I had a recent discussion of the use of performance metrics … Continue reading The Human Side of Performance Metrics
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