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KEEP Spring Listening and Sharing Session - Central Office
The department's Keeping Employees Engaged Program (KEEP) program piloted last year and on May 28th Senior Executive Team members, Executive Director Michelle Barnes, and Deputy Executive Director, Perry May visited with the division's Central Administration staff at Fort Logan. Anders Jacobson presented results from the CDHS divisionwide engagement survey and opened the floor to comments and questions. Staff participated and engaged with Senior Leadership iin a rich discussion about the division and provided important feedback. Future engagement survey data will specifically reflect the Central Office results.
Employee of the Month - May
Employee of the Month - May
Jack Sandoval
Trainer Specialist IV - Office of Staff Development
I'm a grateful and proud husband of 21+ years to my wife Jasmine and father to Wyatt who just graduated college with his computer science/cyber security degree. I love to camp and volunteer at my church with the youth group. I unwind by playing video games with friends and family.
Sanctuary in practice
As a training lead, Jack embodies all of the 5 Key strategies especially in the area of quality staff. Jack is commtted to ensuring that the classes we offer are done so in a professional manner and reflective adult learning theory and proven training practices.
Jack, has and continues to enusre that our customers, teammates and stakeholders are being kept up to date on changes, etc. that may have an impact. He has also taken on some of this writer's responsibilities when it comes to open and effective communcation.
In spite of an increased workload, Jack continues to effectively self regulate and ensure he engages customers, stakeholders and teammates in a professional manner. He has practices social awareness and relationship managment with all that he works with. One example is in his work to support a co-worker who was retiring. He made sure they knew the impact they had during their tenure and supported them as they walked through the change process associated with a huge life event.
Welcome to the Team
Welcome to the Team
Lauren Gurrola
Program Assistant
Office of Staff Development
June
June
Rashaun Esposito
Danielle Dyvig
Jack Sandoval
Take a moment for yourself and reflect on Democracy with the worksheet below:
What's Your Commitment.pdfCommitment to Democracy
Commitment to Democracy
June Theme
June Theme
Text courtesy of Elisa C. Hicks - MSW, MA, CJSP
NCCHC Coordinator, BHMS
"However successful institutions may be in coming close to it, democracy itself - like justice, equality, and liberty - remains a critical standard against which all institutions may be measured". (Lummis)
The skills that are necessary for democratic participation - expressing oneself, deeply listening to others, conflict management, compromise, self-control, self-discipline, self-respect, and respect for others - are taught and modeled at various levels in any organization. Diversity of opinion is actively sought for the benefit of sharing different thoughts and experiences. Democratic leaders who know how to implement healthy group processes and who are able to creatively synthesize multiple viewpoints are treasured.
As a whole, democratic workplaces (and teams) experience an increase in healthy communication and sharing of information, more effective interaction and coordination, and an increase in innovation and creativity.
Some tips to keep in mind:
We all have a responsibility to act.
We all share in the decision making process.
We agree to support collaboration and consensus.
We know we may not get what we want, yet we will continue to support each other.
EDI Thought for the month:
Inclusion isn’t a task or commitment we take on solely for the benefit of others. It is a realization that the path to achieve our fullest potential lies in the opportunities we have to expand our knowledge, skills and wisdom from the experiences of others and to share our kernels of insight, so that the community of knowledge and deeper understanding continually expands.
Sanctuary and EDI
The Sanctuary theme of the month is Democracy. Democracy is a commitment to making sure that everyone’s voice is heard. It requires an Inclusive mindset to put the Sanctuary commitment to Democracy into action.
Good leadership strives to help us arrive at the best decisions. When we fail to get input from all of the people and stakeholders who are affected by a decision, we invariably will fail to see the issue we are looking at in its fullest light. Only when we have the opportunity to view the problem or opportunity from multiple perspectives will the likelihood of arriving at the best solution be increased.
Inclusion and Democracy encourages us to be actively mindful of the voices that may be missing, that may be shy, hesitant or silenced and to gently but assuredly make space for them.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
By Fitzgerald Clark, DYS Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
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