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
Effective leaders are extremely versatile and receptive to the dynamics of changing environments, events and organizational needs. This module is designed to help students understand the importance of versatility and how this skill will help them to develop their own style and become more responsive to the unique and ever changing characteristics of individuals, teams and organizations. Students will gain an understanding of how role, style and skill shifting can improve their overall leadership performance.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to understand and describe:
- Assessing Your own Personal Style.
- Learn to do Better People Reading.
- Assessment of Personal Styles and Style-Shifting.
- Assessment of Roles and Role-Shifting into appropriate tasks.
- Intentionally Assessing (53) Style, Readiness, Willingness and Ability, and (54) Shifting Skills.
- Recognition of a Team’s or Organization’s Stage of Development.
- Facilitation of the Organization Development Stages.
- Formation and Facilitation of a Cross-Functional Continuous Improvement Team.
- Assessment of Leadership Skills to Help Yourself and Others Plan for Further Development.
- Coaching Other Leaders to Become More Effective Leaders.
- Lead Environmental Scanning and Initiating Proactive Responses to Future Trends.
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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