The Court Administration Program

The primary purpose of the Court Administration Program (CAP) is the creation of a group of leaders for the administration of courts, trained under the international management standards. The Court Administration Program (CAP) is designed to assist the achievement of this purpose, providing to participants a solid base of principles and practices of the modern management of courts, including a reflection of the history and principles for the administration of courts, as well as the understanding of values and characteristics of the functioning of the court system.

Court Administration Program (CAP) intends to elaborate the following leading characteristics:

• Leadership: Capacity and desire to lead and manage others.
• Technical competence: Updated professional knowledge on work methods and procedures.
• Strategic point of view: Capacity to collect and make the analysis of the information that provides a large point of view on priorities, and foresee capacities, necessities and possible problems.
• Balanced perspective: A large viewpoint that balances present necessities and long-term considerations.
• Environmental sensitivity: Recognition of large environmental tendencies and their influence on the daily work of courts.
• Flexibility: Being open versus the new information and tolerance to stress and ambiguity in the workplace.
• Orientation to action: Determination, consideration of risk and the encouragement to complete things. 
• Concentration on the result: Determination to achieve the purpose and to complete things up to the end.
• Communication: Capacity to be expressed clearly and authoritatively, as well as capacity to listen to others clearly. 
• Interpersonal sensitivity: self-recognition and the awareness on how you influence others, sensitivity versus necessities and weaknesses of others, as well as the capacity to joint to the point of view of others. 

In addition to the training of chancellors, new judicial staff, and the staff on duty, the curriculum of the Court Administration Program (CAP) provides a reliable instrument that heads of courts should use to assess themselves, the staff and colleagues regarding the necessities of professional development and priorities of education. Also, the Court Administration Program (CAP), in addition to serving as a reference point for future education programs, intends to be read and reflected by the relevant and possible heads of courts and by other actors of the judiciary and of the School of Magistrates, as a source of information, knowledge and of a better understanding of courts, of their goals, processes, practices and persons who manage them. 

The Court Administration Program (CAP) is a 14-week program that makes the analysis of the complex nature of the court and of the environment where they function, applying organizational theory, as well as serves as a framework for the analysis of courts as complex systems with structures, functions, cultures, values, actors (judges, court personnel, users of the court, etc.,) and relations. 
 

The Court Administration Program (CAP) includes the following modules.