Helping
government leaders and employees earn citizen trust. All
government leaders and employees face significant challenges in
building and maintaining safe, caring, and productive communities.
Citizens expect services they can trust from governing councils,
managers, department heads, law enforcement, other emergency first responders, and employees.
The
challenges include economic, education, environmental, safety,
entertainment, planning and transportation matters. Far too often,
when trusting relationships with citizens are impaired, the root
cause stems from a character issue.
A
strong framework of character throughout government depends upon
the commitment and example of government leaders. That framework
is enhanced and maintained when character is deliberately and
pro-actively emphasized, required, and recognized.
Character
Fort Collins primarily uses a system for government leaders, developed
by Character First! ®, to keep strong the character framework within which government
agencies operate. The training includes:
- Understanding
the relationship between unfavorable symptoms which impair citizen
trust and issues of character
- The
integration of a character focus throughout a government agency
- Creating
a safe environment for employees to appeal decisions
- Hiring
for character
- Character
based correction
- Recognizing
and praising the character of government leaders and employees
Character
Fort Collins provides training, consultation, and resources to
government leaders who desire a strong character culture throughout
their organizations.
International Association of Character Cities (IACC)
