Culture is king over change. If you want to succeed at implementing a new or reenergizing an existing program, policy, or initiative, you need to start by understanding organizational culture.
The next time you find yourself resisting change in your justice organization, consider these solutions.
Make the failing forward concept part of your every day consciousness at work. It’s time for those working in justice to try something new.
We challenge you to take an adaptive mindset and deploy adaptive solutions to overcome change resistance in your agency. In this post, we give you examples of adaptive problems and their solutions.
Ensure your change initiative doesn’t get further eclipsed by poor problem diagnosis and solving. Learn the difference between technical and adaptive problems and solutions.
There is little implementation in the comfort zone and little comfort in the implementation zone. We cannot expect to change our practices, habits, culture, organization, and outcomes without a corresponding change in our perception of what is comfortable.
On a mission to improve reentry outcomes for their communities, grass roots organizations are emerging to address some of the greatest challenges facing people leaving incarceration. These organizations have staff and leadership with lived experience, passion, a wide breadth of knowledge, talent, and wisdom that is not taught via a criminal justice degree.
The ACJI team shares what each of its own leaders considers essential Implementation Leadership learning–something every alumni should remind themselves of from time to time.
While reentry programs offer a wide range of services that promote successful reintegration for people leaving prison and returning to the community, the research is clear, effective reentry programs share these ten features.