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Receive a presentation from the Sheriff's Office on the department specific values, mission and goals which are intended to augment the Board's adopted vision and values
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Sheriff's Office recommends that the Board of Supervisors receive a presentation from the Sheriff's Office on the work completed to update the Sheriff's values, mission and goals which are intended to augment the Board's adopted vision and values.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Over the past couple of years, the Sheriff's Office has completed various internal organizational assessments that resulted in the desire to enhance the leadership skills of the management team. Our office contracted the services of Todd Dischinger, who has leadership development training experience. Mr. Dischinger created a series of classes that would meet the direction of the sheriff's leadership model that emphasized the functions and responsibilities of each of the mid-level, senior, and executive manager positions within the Sheriff's Office. The scope of the training was to review and support the shared meanings in our organizational culture. Studied traits included openness, trust, internal and external communication, initiative, risk taking, and skills such as adaptability, creativity, and critical thinking. The assessments were sensitive to embedded attitudes, beliefs, and the behaviors that drive culture.
This led to a team building workshop in October 2016. The purpose was to:
* Better bind the management team to transcend to a higher-level sense of team
* Cause an alignment of shared purpose, goals, and objectives
* Fortify a positive team culture
* Sustain organizational norms of behaviors
* Substantiate the roles of our leaders
* Create organizational action plans
On the last day of the team building workshop, six action plans were created. These action plans were ...
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