Courses

Build Coaching Skills to Tap Potential

This class is held online via Zoom from 9am - 4pm.

A successful supervisor is one who can effectively coach and develop staff to take initiative, resolve conflict, develop productive working relationships, and reach their highest potential. While most supervisors can master the technical aspects of their job, the harder part...

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Responding to Citizen Incivility: Managerial and Legal Strategies

This webinar will be held May 23, 2024 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Citizen incivility, when citizens behave abusively towards local government employees, is pervasive across local governments in North Carolina and across the U.S. In School of Government survey data, 57 percent of local government employees indicate being yelled at...

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Managing Conflict: Strategies for Elected Officials

Elected officials frequently deal with sensitive, sometimes contentious, issues at board meetings and in other public and private settings. Knowing how to successfully manage these conflicts is critical to achieving shared goals for a group or community. This course focuses on two parts of negotiation and problem solving: how personality types...

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Working Together: Counties, School Boards, and Local Funding for Public Schools

This workshop provides an overview of the governance and funding structures of public schools in North Carolina. It focuses particularly on the relationship between counties and local school administrative units. Participants will learn about the legal roles and responsibilities of counties for schools and the school budgeting and expenditure...

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Grants Management: Tier One Communities

This offering of Grants Management: Tier One Communities is sponsored by the Golden LEAF Foundation. Enrollment is reserved for participants from Qualifying Communities.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:

This introductory level workshop is geared toward public professionals in Tier 1 communities with basic to intermediate...

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Elevate Organizational Performance

This course is open to professionals and elected officials. It is available on demand via a request from your jurisdiction. Please contact Jenny Neville at neville@sog.unc.edu if you are interested in this option.

Local governments that focus on the fundamentals of leadership, strategic planning,...

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Reappraisal Bootcamp

Reppraisal Boot Camp is an exciting hands-on class where participants will work through the different steps in completing a mass appraisal. The hands-on exercises include data cleaning techniques, developing market analysis tools, determining model specifications, model calibration techniques, developing different valuation models,...

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Accounting and Auditing Update

This 1-day course will focus on new and emerging governmental accounting and financial reporting requirements – and there are many. Recent pronouncements of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) will be highlighted, specifically GASB Statement Nos. 67 and 68, commonly known as the pension standards. NC governments will be...

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Practical Considerations for Implementing Session Law 2023-124 and the Notice of Rights for Respondents and Wards

Session Law 2023-124 creates the new G.S. 35A-1117 which entitles respondents and wards to notice of nearly twenty enumerated rights. With this notice of rights comes new responsibilities for guardian ad litems, clerks of court, and petitioners. In this webinar, we will anticipate challenges and consider solutions to satisfy the requirements...

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Spring Public Defender Conference

This course is co-sponsored by the Office of Indigent Defense Services and by the NC Association of Public Defenders.

The Spring Public Defender Conference provides training on current topics of interest to public defender attorneys and investigators. This year’s conference topics include extradition, parallel...

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Getting Justice Done: A Judicial District Executive Seminar

North Carolina’s court system has experienced its fair share of challenges and change over the past few years. Pandemic-related protocols and delays, retirements, the implementation of eCourts, and other events have exerted pressures on the system and the people who lead and manage it. This court leadership series is designed to help you...

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Performance Management in Parks and Recreation

This class is part of the Performance Management Course Series. To see the full list of courses offered please click HERE

This course will take place online via Zoom from 9am - 2pm and will include around ...

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NC City and County Management Association Winter Seminar

The North Carolina City and County Management Association Winter Seminar focuses on topics of interest to city and county managers and administrators.

The winter seminar is February 5–7, 2025 at the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem.

The Professional Development committee is making financial assistance scholarships...

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Essentials of Economic Development

Does your jurisdiction have the ingredients to stimulate investment and create jobs and wealth in an uncertain economy?

This one-day workshop covers the core strategies and tools for promoting economic development in the face of changing fiscal and economic conditions.

Program Topics:

An Overview of Economic DevelopmentBuilding...

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Lead with Purpose: Engage and Motivate Teams

This is an in person class held at the School of Government from 9am - 4pm.

Leaders are constantly searching for ways to improve employee engagement. There are studies that indicate that anywhere between 70 – 85% of the workforce is not engaged. If we are to believe those numbers, we need to know what employment engagement is...

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Trust Basics and Trust Proceedings for Clerks

This Judicial College session will provide introductory information related to trusts under North Carolina law, including key terminology, basic trust operation, the parties involved in a trust relationship, the purpose and uses of a trust, trust creation, and trust administration. It will also include information on trust proceedings before...

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Juvenile Capacity to Proceed

This one-day, in-person class will provide detailed instruction on the new standard and procedures for juvenile determinations of capacity to proceed. Session Law 2023-114 established a new legal standard that governs whether a juvenile has capacity to proceed in a delinquency matter and created new procedures regarding capacity determination...

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Top 10 Primer: Public School Funding Process

This is a free online course from 10:00 am - 11:15 am. Please register ahead of time to access the Zoom link.

In this workshop, participants will learn about the local funding process for public schools. Topics include local revenue sources, county and school budgeting processes, appropriations for...

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Advanced Criminal Procedure for Superior Court Judges

This four day North Carolina Judicial College course for Superior Court Judges covers many challenging procedural issues that arise in a criminal trial, including dealing with discovery issues and suppression motions, capacity, double jeopardy, jury misconduct, probation revocations, and more. It also includes a tour of the State Crime Lab in...

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Overview of Decedents' Estates

This session will provide an introduction to the administration of a decedent’s estate. It will cover basic terminology, the clerk’s role and responsibility, an overview of formal administration and alternatives to formal administration, and the sources of law and resources available to support the clerk in this field of work.