Indiana Department of Correction's Elite Program Kicks Off for the Year
Angola, Ind. - From a meet and greet with state executives to creating their first video project, seven teams began their year-long adventure in the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) 2020 Commissioner’s Experienced and Emerging Leaders Program this week.
A total of 28 individuals from seven agencies met for the first time at Pokagon State Park to begin the EEL program. The individuals were selected to participate in one of the IDOC’s most elite leadership programs.
During their first session, the participants were split up into seven teams, named for positive leadership qualities: Team Integrity, Team Focus, Team Humility, Team Courage, Team Cooperation, Team Strategy, and Team Vision. They also began to focus on their assigned Capstone Projects. Each team is responsible for creating a recruitment video for a specific facility. In order to prepare them for this Program Director Greg Dunn, who recently began working for the state as the IDOC’s videographer and photographer, gave them some helpful tips on how to use their iPhone as a video camera.
There are three more two-day sessions where the teams will be brought back together for instruction and information on topics like strategic foresight, the leadership equation, leadership qualities, developing effective teams, motivating others and the importance of vision and the motive to lead, among many other topics.
This is the 14th cohort of the program which began in 2007 and has graduated more than 460 participants. Candidates are nominated by their agency head, facility head, division director or a past EEL graduate. Once nominated they are asked to apply for the program. Applications are then reviewed by a selection board composed of IDOC executives, EEL staff and the Commissioner.
Greg Dunn teachs participants how to hold their IPhone when making a movie.
Kelly Dignin, Executive Director of the Indiana Public Safety Commission, talks to participants during the Executive Staff Meet and Greet session.
Greg Dunn talks to Team Leaders about their movie Capstone Projects.
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