Collaboration within today’s multigenerational workplace gets everybody involved with a common goal. Today’s workforce poses both challenges and opportunities for agency leaders. Developing effective strategies to recruit, communicate, train, retain, and lead staff is essential to high performance.

Is your organization looking for answers to the following questions?

• Why don’t the younger staff act more like me?
• Why don’t these boomers just retire and give me a chance to promote?
• How do we begin to prepare new leaders given our fiscal circumstances?
• What does the future of our organization look like? Who’s next?
• How do we prepare the next generation of leaders? (“Building the bench.”)
• How do we help the last century’s workforce evolve into the new century’s workers?
• Does your mission/vision statement reflect a commitment to staff?

Objectives

Discussion topics will include the following:

• Appreciating the strengths and weaknesses of each generation in the workplace.
• Recognizing the relationship between generational differences and an agency’s culture.
• Taking an inventory of your agency. What are the questions you need to ask to gather a breakdown of generational numbers?
• Understanding policy considerations.
• Developing partnerships with other criminal justice agencies and academia.
• Developing strategies—including leadership development strategies— that ready your agency for the 21st century workforce.

Audience

Who Should Attend Professionals working at all levels and in all areas of adult and juvenile corrections or inmate reentry are en couraged to attend. This includes:

• Agency directors
• Prison wardens/superintendents
• Jail administrators
• Community corrections personnel
• Directors of state personnel offices
• Criminal justice program coordinators
• Military personnel
• Pretrial personnel
• Training academy personnel
• Individuals working to recruit, train, and retain correctional staff
• Council of State Governments
• National Association of State Personnel Executives
• Representatives from the following professional organizations: ACA, AJA, APPA, ASCA, IACTP, NSA, and TDN