Seminar Overview
Does your organization:...Seem to view opportunities as threats? ...Confuse means and ends? ...Favor procedure over common sense? ...Mistake acquiescence for teamwork? ...Prefer compliance to innovation? If so, this seminar is for you.
Today’s law enforcement agencies are confronted with an era of continual change that presents challenges never before encountered. Adapting to these requires a new style of leadership that embraces rather than avoids change, and which recognizes that success results from developing and releasing the skills of everyone in the organization. Unfortunately, the experience of most police agencies is that their leaders, systems, and cultures are not yet positioned to properly support their organizational vision and strategy.
Focusing upon the human and systems elements of leadership and organization, Strategic Leadership investigates the nature of high-performance police agencies; develops the skills required for effective organizational leadership; examines the nature of the police organizational culture; and confronts the critical issues associated with contemporary leadership and change management. In the end, participants understand the key issues associated with strategic thinking, contemporary leadership & organization, change management, agency redesign, resistance, and performance-based team cultures. As such, the course serves as the natural ally of strategic planning by developing the skills required to move organizations and people to action.
To enhance learning and personal development, the course utilizes a variety of adult-learning techniques (video & written case studies, individual & group exercises) and includes an array of personal assessment instruments that together create a Personal Leadership Profile for participants to use in the development of their leadership skills.
Program Highlights
The Organizational Leadership Process
- Post-Bureaucratic Leadership for 21st Century Policing
- The Leader’s Role in Strategy, Systems, Culture, and Change
The Leader as Developer of Strategy
- Policing in a Rapidly Changing Society
- Obsolescence of the Traditional Law Enforcement Model
- The New Generation of Policing
The Leader as Designer of Systems
- Designing Adaptable Police Agencies
- High Performance Models for Working and Organizing
- Creating the Environment for Performance & Continual Learning
The Leader as Architect of Culture
- The Foundations of Organizational Culture: Values, Beliefs, and Assumptions that Shape Behavior
- The Shaping of Organizational Culture: Developing a Culture that Supports the Vision
- The Outcomes of Organizational Culture: Organizational Climate, Effectiveness, & the Quality of Work Life
The Leader as Champion of Change
- The Challenges of Initiating Change
- The Challenges of Sustaining Change
- The Challenges of Institutionalizing Change
Advanced Skills-Building
- Video Case Study
- Leadership Style Assessment Instruments
- Personal Leadership Profile and Development Plan
Seminar Format
- 3, 4, or 5 days, available in standardized or customized formats, and presented by contract or as a sponsored public seminar.
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