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APEX Change Team Training: Facilitators Manual [and] Participant Manual [Lesson Plans and Participant Manual]

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) and People in Charge LLC are pleased to present the Achieving Performance Excellence (APEX) Change Team Training Curriculum - part of the APEX Initiative. The APEX initiative incorporates culture, leadership, performance measurement, results, and a change management strategy to help corrections agencies use their resources wisely to improve their organizational performance ...

The APEX Change Team Training will provide correctional agencies with capacity-building training in the APEX systems approach to organizational performance improvement. This training is designed to create teams of internal change agents in all sectors of corrections. It will enable participants to build their skills and take the APEX components out to their agencies and successfully implement the APEX processes: assisting their agencies as they go through the culture and change management processes, developing integrated and holistic implementation plans to meet any identified gaps, developing comprehensive communications plans, and working toward sustaining the change efforts.

Modules include: · Welcome and Program Overview; · APEX Public Safety Model; · Change management and organizing people; · Agency assessment: laying the groundwork for change; · Define the goal; · Build the implementation plan; · Communications planning; · Implement and sustain changes; · Workshop close. Includes copies of the PowerPoint presentation slides.