Public Safety Training

Public Safety Training

21st Century Leadership, Communications and Policy Series

In the face of complex, emerging, and ever changing law enforcement challenges, the 21st century leadership, communications, and policy series provides concepts, strategies, leadership activities, and the tools necessary to focus, think, decide and act as a 21st Century leader. The goals of these trainings include:

Lead an effective law enforcement agency
Create a resilient counter-crime network
Put actionable knowledge to work in the fight against crime
Build mutual trust and garner support from different stakeholders

These training courses are designed for the command and supervisory level personnel and for those who seek to advance their law enforcement careers though the ranks. They use experiential "hands on" methods such as simulations, scenario walkthroughs, group exercises and video clips, based on current real life contexts, as the primary learning tools. The trainings combine such topics as collaborative leadership, communications, team dynamics, political savvy, and emotional intelligence into a focused proactive approach for crisis management as well as day-to-day crime fighting efforts.

All classes receive MPCTC Police and Correctional In-Service Hours

21st Century Leadership: A LeadSimm Collaborative Leadership Seminar and Strategic Simulation

The LeadSimm leadership development simulation method is designed to teach participants the whys' and hows' of proactively using collaborative leadership to gain support from and create synergy among the various community, law enforcement and partner agencies, organizations and constituencies.

The LeadSimm simulation is driven by a custom designed, authentic scenario about current public safety issues and challenges.

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Leadership and Strategic Thinking:
Knowing What Questions to Ask

For its part, strategic thinking has been the mainstay of organizational creativity, performance and future actions for many years. Yet engaging in strategic planning without first working through a strategic thinking process is equivalent to rearranging deck chars on the Titanic. Nice idea, but you have a hole in the boat.

Strategic planning is about providing answers to questions that will guide the future plans and development efforts of the organization. However, strategic thinking looks at the organization in a holistic way to assure that the right questions are being asked.

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Wax On-Wax Off: Communication and
the Power of the Four Frames

For many, clear and concise communications is the single most important action leaders and managers take each day. Yet too often communications, can be confusing or misread, many times to the wonderment of the manager or leader who originated the message. "How", says a senior manager, "did they not get the message?"

Perhaps they did! And perhaps the reason for the confusion is that the communication did not use the power of the four frames for meaning and action.

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Strategic Directions: The Ins and Outs of
Making and Implementing Policy

Senior and mid grade police officers work with, change and implement various policies everyday. Understanding the framework and implications of various policy initiatives is vital to understanding how policies are formed and instituted. This one-day training is designed to provide the participants an understanding of the four basic phases of policy making.

This course will examine the four phases of policy making and the four frames of communications to provide to the students the ability to view, explain, formulate and lead policy initiatives.

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