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Jane Wiseman is an Innovations in Government Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She leads the Institute for Excellence in Government, a non-profit consulting firm dedicated to improving government performance. She has served as an appointed official in government and as a financial advisor and consultant to ...
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Apr 10, 2024 · Jane Wiseman, who was previously VP of original series at Netflix, has joined Sister Entertainment Group as the head of U.S. television, according to Cindy Holland, global CEO of Sister ...
Apr 10, 2024 · Jane Wiseman is reuniting with former Netflix content chief Cindy Holland at Sister.. Wiseman, who departed as head of comedy at the streaming giant in 2020, will serve as head of U.S. television ...
United States. (617) 448-4250. Jane.Wiseman@gmail.com. Jane Wiseman leads the Institute for Excellence in Government, a non-profit consulting firm dedicated to improving government performance. She is also a Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration. She has served as an appointed official in ...
- Use targeted digital marketing.
- “Increasing the number of traditionally underrepresented people in your workforce does not automatically produce benefits.” (Ely and Thomas)
- Recommendation #3: Retain more candidates during the selection process
- Create a high-touch process.
- New staffing models:
- Rethink the career model. In a review
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- About the Institute for Excellence in Government:
Digital marketing enables delivery of customized messages to specific groups at costs far below traditional advertising. One state police agency seeking to recruit more Black troopers used geofencing to send its recruiting ad to every attendee at a graduation ceremony at a local Historically Black College. Low cost digital marketing offers the opp...
Assess organizational culture for any barriers to belonging. Lack of diversity can create a culture less welcoming for new entrants who are female or people of color, but as Harvard Business School scholars Ely and Thomas point out, “increasing the number of traditionally underrepresented people in your workforce does not automatically produce bene...
Police hiring processes can be lengthy, and candidates with other opportunities may not wait. Retaining more candidates through the process may require both providing more support to candidates during the process and improving to the process itself. Strategies that provide support to candidates include the following:
Providing one-on-one support via mentors, navigators, or advisors can help applicants maintain momentum and stay on track with all steps in the process, and can make them feel more connected before they join. In a survey of college students in criminal justice programs, 70% agreed that having a mentor would make a difference in their choosing a ca...
Even the most successful recruiting program may not close the gap between sworn strength authorized levels and new recruits ready to enter service. A fundamental rethinking of staffing and deployment models may be needed. Options include:
of state police hiring, scholars Whetstone, Reed and Turner suggest that attrition might be reduced by creating a training model like the one used in the medical field, with a standard set of rotations among specialties to be completed in the first three years of service, and then allowing staff to choose their specialty. The scholars’ model of ch...
able to prioritize the deployment of sworn staff to duties that require the full extent of their training and powers. Now is the time for bold and innovative approaches to attracting new entrants to the field of law enforcement, and to re-examine even the most basic elements of a recruiting program. Police leaders can leverage the intense focus on...
The Institute for Excellence in Government (IEG) is a non-partisan non-profit consulting firm devoted to making government better through research, writing, training, and coaching.
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JANE WISEMAN . INTRODUCTION . Public trust in government is low — of the 43 industries tracked in the . American Customer Satisfaction Index, only one ranks lower than the federal government in satisfaction levels. Local government ranks a bit higher than the federal government, but for most of the public, that makes little difference.
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Harvard University Jane.Wiseman@gmail.com
