Giving feedback is one of the most challenging leadership skills in the criminal and legal justice system. This post shares practical insights from ACJI’s Nov. 2025 Learn@Work LIVE webinar to help leaders build feedback skills that strengthen trust and performance.
Executive coaching is transforming how justice leaders lead. By building emotional intelligence and self-awareness, coaching strengthens decision-making, team trust, and resilience across the system.
Psychological safety isn’t abstract. It shows up in everyday actions like admitting mistakes, asking for help, and respectfully disagreeing. When leaders and teams embrace these green flags, they create cultures where trust fuels innovation, resilience, and real change.
Silence is not always agreement. Sometimes it is pseudo silence, when people hold back their real thoughts because they do not feel safe. Leaders may mistake this quiet for buy in, but it hides resistance, erodes trust, and prevents meaningful change. Breaking pseudo silence requires courage, structure, and a commitment to rewarding truth telling so culture change can move from pretending to progressing.
Psychological safety is not about being nice, it is about being real. At ACJI, we see it as the balance of belonging and autonomy that helps organizations unlock honesty, resilience, and lasting culture change.
Organizational culture is the hidden force that makes or breaks reform, and without the right patterns of behavior, mindset, and meaning even the best strategies fail. This article explores what culture really is, why it matters, and how leaders can intentionally shape it with ACJI’s new IDEATE Organizational Culture Academy offering practical tools to turn culture talk into culture action.
Roughly 70% of people experience Imposter Syndrome, the belief that success feels undeserved and the fear of being “found out.” Learn where it comes from, how it affects leaders at every career stage, and strategies to move from self-doubt toward resilient, values-driven leadership.
Becoming a supervisor is a shift in identity, not just a change in title. This post explores how justice system leaders can grow into that role with clarity, purpose, and the support they deserve.
Discover how to turn strategic planning from a once-a-year document into a daily discipline that drives real results. These 8 practical tips from implementation expert Dr. Nicholas Powell will help your agency stay focused, mission-aligned, and ready to lead with intention.
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