| Credible Leadership Development White Paper |
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| 1.1 Executive Summary |
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| 1.2 Why Isn’t Every Officer a Leader? |
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| 1.2.1 Why Aren’t All Leadership Programs Skills-Based? |
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| 1.2.2 But These Skills Are Life-Skills that Everyone Needs – Why Aren’t These Skills Taught in High School, Universities, Colleges or in other Support Organizations? |
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| 1.3 A New Paradigm Emerges for Police Education |
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| 1.3.1 What Leadership Skills Do Learners Have Before Training? |
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| 1.3.1.1 Historical Background |
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| 1. Over 85% of the students (including many police officers) who did a video of them trying to assist someone to solve a problem for 15 minutes: |
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| 1.4 What is Required to Build a Competency-Based Leadership Development Program? |
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| 1. Self-Management |
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| 2. Interpersonal Communication and Conflict Management |
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| 3. Problem-Solving |
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| 4. Team Leadership |
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| 5. Organizational and Community Leadership |
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| 1. Start with end in mind! If our goal is to have every officer demonstrating leadership skills on an on- going basis, initiate skills training from the beginning and build on it throughout one’s career. |
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| 2. Each trainee agrees on 2-3 skills at a time to work on developing. |
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| 3. Coach the trainee (who has already been introduced to the skills in their initial training) to better perform those skills for a few weeks at a time. |
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| 4. Move on to the mastery of 2-3 more skills the next week or two. |
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| 1. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and local Municipal Departments informed Dr. Anderson of their needs and they collaborated with the Canadian Police Knowledge Network to build the program that was also based upon the successful university ... |
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| 2. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) pilot-tested the program by collaborating to build it and test it with 25 of their best leaders – see the 7 minute video by Deputy Chief (Personnel and Training), Mark Perez at this link: https://commandc... |
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| 3. Sheriff Champagne (Past President of the National Sheriffs Association) validated the program’s outcomes by training ALL of his staff and reported these results after he implemented the program over a period of 5 years: https://www.dropbox.com/s... |
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| 4. The Canadian Police Knowledge Network, the RCMP and Municipal Police collaborated with Dr. Anderson and National Command and Staff College to produce and pilot studies published and available online now by the Canadian Police Knowledge Network: ht... |
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| 5. The Department of Justice (DOJ) funded a pilot to test the efficacy of the Every Officer is a Leader Workshop; the program was evaluated and recommended by the DOJ. |
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| 6. The conceptual framework and skills are research-based and the textbook has been used by major universities such as Capella University, Ball State University in the US and Dalhousie University in Canada (see the letter from Professor Jeff Green wh... |
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| 7. Certified by 36 Peace Officers Standards and Training (POSTs) agencies and the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST), and they published the results in the IADLEST newsletter on Page 37: https:/... |
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| 8. The American Council on Education has reviewed the entire curriculum and approved it for 6 units of undergraduate credits that transfer to over 1,700 universities: https://acememberdirectory.azurewebsites.net. |
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| 1.5 Implementing a Successful Competency-based Leadership Development Program |
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| 1.5.1 Leadership Competence Must be Part of the Organization’s Culture |
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| 1.5.2 What Do We Believe is the Ideal Training Paradigm for Leadership Skills Training? |
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| 1.5.3 Research Foundations of Credible Leadership |
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| 1.5.4 The Big 5 Skill Sets Drive the Performance of the 40 Tasks |
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| 1.5.5 Credible Leadership has a Solid Research Foundation |
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| 1.5.5.1 Where has this worked before? |
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| 1.5.5.2 How can your agency implement credible leadership? |
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| 1.5.5.3 Become a Certified Credible Leadership Organization (CLO): |
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| 1.5.5.4 Who can you contact if you want to explore ways that our Faculty, Coaches, Consultants, courses and workshops can help you achieve your goals? |
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