Seminar Overview

Today’s law enforcement agencies are characterized by constantly changing dynamics. Consequently, responsive, flexible leadership is a critical factor in agency success. To be effective, police leaders need to adapt their styles to fit a broad range of individual and team situations. This seminar shows how to do just that.

Leadership: The Situational Approach is one of the most widely practiced leadership models in the world, and a key component of leadership training at the FBI National Academy. And now the Center has taken The Situational Approach to the next level by adapting this well-proven model to meet the specific needs of today’s law enforcement agencies. Leadership: The Situational Approach for Law Enforcement is a behavioral model that focuses upon the interpersonal applications of leadership in the police environment. It is unique in that it provides a learnable, cause and effect approach to leadership that teaches participants how to quickly diagnose and adapt to the needs of the situation at hand, so as to make followers effective and the agency successful. In addition, the natural byproduct of The Situational Approach is that followers are developed to their full potential; workplace tension and frustration are minimized; greater confidence, commitment, and motivation are encouraged; and both personal and agency objectives are attained. In the end, the combination of content and approach make this seminar ideal for rapid skill development readily transferable to the workplace.

Program Highlights

Leadership Essentials

• Leading in the Modern Law Enforcement Agency
  
• Leadership as an Adaptive, Interactive Process
  
• Power, Influence, and Motivation with Today's Workforce

Leadership: Fundamentals of the Situational Approach

• Effective Leaders: Values, Characteristics, Attitudes

• Leadership Style
• Follower Development Level
• The Critical Relationship between Leadership Style and Follower Development Level

Leadership Style: Behaviors to Influence Follower Performance

• Directive Behavior
• Supportive Behavior

Follower Development Level: The Criteria for Performance

• Stages of Follower Development
• Competence, Motivation, and Confidence

Leading Effectively with the Situational Approach

• Matching Leadership Style to Development Level
• The Process of Diagnosis, Adaptation, and Communication

Follower Development and REgression

• Initiating Continual Performance Improvement
• Effectively Solving Performance Problems

Advanced Skills-Building

• Video Case Studies
• Leadership Style Assessment Instruments

Seminar Format

• 1, 2, or 3 days. Available in standardized or customized formats, and presented by contract or as a sponsored public seminar.

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