Required Textbook: Anderson, T., et. al. (2012). Every Officer is a Leader: Coaching Leadership, Learning and Performance in Justice, Public Safety, and Security Organizations. New York: Troford.
Overview
The Skills in this cluster of 12 skills are the skills of Living and Working effectively, the skills of Living on Purpose – instead of by accident. The daily psychological stresses that law enforcement professionals experience in their work puts them at a significantly greater risk than the general population for developing a host of long term physical and mental health issues. This course is designed to introduce students to skills that allow them to build a personal foundation to cope with the negative effects of the job on a personal level.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to understand and describe:
- The Skill of Grounding: Focusing Awareness in the Present
- The Skills of Centering: Including Self in the Context of Events
- The Skills of Beliefs Clarification and Resolution
- Specifying Your Personal Purpose and Vision
- The Skill of Identifying Your Values
- The Skill of Life Planning to Provide Motivation and Balance
- The Skill of Educational Planning
- The Skill of Career Planning
- The Skill of Time and Priority Management
- The Skill of Stress Management
- The Skill of Energy Management
- The Skill of Maintaining a Positive Mental Attitude
Instructor: Dr. Terry Anderson holds a Ph.D. in Administration and Management (1992). His doctoral work was supervised by Dr. Robert Marx at the School of Business and Dr. Allen Ivey at the School of Counseling and Consulting at the University of Massachusetts, through Columbia Pacific University. His MA and BA were earned at California State University. Terry recently retired from being a professor of leadership, problem management and communication at the university for 38 years. He has conducted executive coaching and mentoring, organization development, strategic planning, team development, and/or executive leadership development projects for corporate and justice and public safety agencies for over 30 years. In public safety, he has been trusted by executives at Folsom Police, New Westminster Police Service, West Vancouver and Vancouver Police, San Diego Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Correctional Service of Canada, the LA County Sheriff’s Department and LAPD. He is certified by California POST to facilitate the Executive Team Building Workshop. In the business sector he has done similar work with small businesses, and executives in Fortune 500 firms such as General Telephone and Electric (GTE) and The TORO Company. He is result-oriented and seeks always to move research-based best practices into practice. He is the coauthor of the book, Every Officer is a Leader: Coaching Leadership, Learning and Performance in Justice, Public Safety and Security Organizations, (2012). As Chief Leadership Officer he is an executive member of the Criminal Justice Commission on Credible Leadership Development (CJCCLD), and serves as the lead facilitator and Director on the competency-based project for developing Credible Leadership in police officers at the Los Angeles Police Department.
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