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 purpose of this course is to provide the law enforcement professional with skills that will allow them to become more capable of creating high performance, high morale teams within the organization so that personnel will actively participate in the planning and implementation of the organizations mission, vision, goals and initiatives.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to understand and describe:
- Informal Assessment Skills: Walking Around Talking with People.
- Formal Assessment: Research, Interviewing, and Reporting.
- Problem-Management Facilitation: Leading Teams Through Resistance to Change.
- Needs Clarification: Clarifying the Need for Change.
- Readiness-Checking: Overcoming the Real Blocks to Change.
- Values Alignment.
- Vision and Purpose Consensus-Building.
- Strategy-Consensus Building.
- Implementation Planning: Specifying and Implementing Steps, Dates, and People to Expedite the Achievement of Goals.
- Strategic Plan Monthly Review and Team Performance.
- Leading teams Toward Continuous Learning for Continuous Improvement.
- Building Accountability.
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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