Implementing a Successful Competency-based Leadership Development Program Copyright © 2023-2024. Every Officer Is A Leader. All Rights Reserved. Page: 5 of 6 1.5.2 What Do We Believe is the Ideal Training Paradigm for Leadership Skills Training? The desired end state is that everyone in the organization has been provided the tools to help build a positive culture of competence and caring. It is like weapons training, self-defence training, or any other developmental system where constant repetition of a task helps develop refinement of skills and a form of “muscle memory” that enables the individual to perform the tasks skillfully, even in times of stress, adrenalin surge, and/or dangerous circumstances. Leadership skills training is as necessary and important as other core training in developing the competencies of the individual officer in fulfilling their current and future responsibilities and roles in the organization. In a perfect world, if policing recruits were to take dedicated leadership skills training during their recruit training program, and Field Training Officers were trained to coach these new recruits in further development of those skills during their initial field indoctrination to policing, that would be ideal. This would require that the Field Training Officers were also trained to a competency level in these skills prior to taking on the mentorship role with the recruits. This leadership skills training would also be of benefit to all non-sworn professional staff in the organization, so including it in their developmental training would also be relevant and important. 1.5.3 Research Foundations of Credible Leadership 40 Tasks + 60 Skills = 100% Leadership Performance The first research that we conducted was with San Diego PD, Vancouver PD, the RCMP, and many others were studied by our graduate students. These studies revealed 40 Tasks and Responsibilities of Effective Police Leadership that more than 6000 police leaders have agreed constitute effective police leadership performance: Click here to self-assess these 40 tasks: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ f4wwu0ae58zo71d/Research%20Based%20List%20of%20Leadership%20Tasks%20and%20Responsibilities%20Short%20Form%20v2%20Final.pdf?dl=0. 1.5.4 The Big 5 Skill Sets Drive the Performance of the 40 Tasks The 5 Skill Sets and the 5 Practices of Exemplary Leaders intersect and conceptually cross-validate one another into a larger, even more comprehensive, and integrated model that includes the monumental research of Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner (made popular in their book, The Leadership Challenge). It is our expectation that future research will likely validate that this integrated model is a breakthrough in clarity of understanding about how the complexity of leadership based upon our field studies and classroom environment results. https://www.dropbox.com/s/6zvvobuc95icdgw/NEW%20MATRIX%20OF%20SKILLS.pdf?dl=0. 1.5.5 Credible Leadership has a Solid Research Foundation The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership can be found at this link: https://tinyurl.com/yckmts9u. Their research is more thoroughly validated than any theory of leadership. Jim Kouzes’ comment to Dr. Anderson in an email he sent to him about our work is quoted as follows: Terry, as you indicate, your work and ours are very compatible, and that’s something we’ve communicated about for over 20 years. Also, your work on the more micro behaviors is extremely useful to leaders in guiding their day-to-day applications. I am delighted that your work is getting the acceptance that it deserves in law enforcement. We wish you the very best with this. As you note in your email, unless participants get coaching after they learn the concepts and get ongoing feedback, the chances are that they won’t apply their knowledge. We agree completely, and this is why our training partners offer coaching as part of our more extensive programs. Jim Kouzes
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