Police Dynamics Leadership Conference

Course Duration: 40 hours

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Course Description:

This Police Dynamics Leadership Conference couples the character-driven principles of Police Dynamics with John Maxwell's power-packed program, Developing the Leader Within You. The course is designed for law enforcement and government leaders who are:

• newly assigned to a leadership role or inexperienced in this field
• experienced leaders and are looking to expand their knowledge base and effectiveness
• future leaders who are looking to advance their career
• administrators currently facing difficult challenges or crisis situations

Fast-paced, relevant, and engaging, this conference prepares law enforcement leaders to prevail in the unique and challenging times in which we find ourselves and our profession.

Course Topics:

DEVELOPING THE LEADER WITHIN YOU
Based on John Maxwell's best-selling book, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0, this course has been singularly designed to help law enforcement leaders learn what leadership is all about and confront the challenges unique to our profession. The course material covers the five levels of leadership, why many people don’t develop as leaders, why character matters, how to be a better servant leader, and so much more. These foundational principles of leadership will help you build your reputation as a solid leader of character and put you on a growth path to reaching your full leadership potential.

The Definition of Leadership: Influence

In this opening session, you will learn the definition of leadership and influence, why many people don’t develop as leaders, and we will preview the five levels of leadership. As John Maxwell says, “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” So, it’s important to know what leadership is, what leadership isn't, and how it pertains to you in law enforcement.

The Key to Leadership: Priorities

Law enforcement officers, and their leaders, face incredible amounts of pressure and unique challenges at every turn. In this session, you will learn about priority pressures, priority principles, proactive priority solutions, and how to create margins in your life.

The Foundation of Leadership: Character

The crisis in leadership we see today is not because we don’t have enough leaders. It’s because we don’t have enough leaders of character. One cannot exist without the other. In this session, you will learn areas of your character in need of refinement, learn the four dimensions of character that every good leader must develop, and the importance of personal values and virtue.

The Ultimate Test of Leadership: Creating Positive Change

Refined leaders influence positive change. In this session, you will learn why leading change can be difficult and learn practical steps you can apply to better understand the change process. You will learn valuable insights on how to give people time to adapt to and process change that creates healthy workplace cultures.

The Quickest Way To Gain Leadership: Problem Solving

The fastest way to influence change and build leadership potential is through problem-solving. As a law enforcement leader, you deal with problems on a daily basis. But all too often, leaders treat symptoms instead of solve problems. In this session, you will learn practical leadership skills and insights such as how problems introduce us to ourselves, how problems introduce us to others, and how problems introduce us to opportunities.

The Heart of Leadership: Serving People

As a law enforcement leader, you know intuitively what it means to be a public servant. The greatest leader who ever lived said, "He who would be greatest among you must become the servant of all." In this session, you will learn how to be a better servant leader and the eight questions to help you serve others better.

The Price Tag of Leadership: Self-Discipline

Critical to the success of any leader or law enforcement officer is self-discipline. In this session, you will learn that there is a price tag to self-discipline, how self-discipline allows leaders to climb through the "path of most resistance," and how to get to the top with your character (and sanity) intact.

The Expansion of Leadership: Personal Growth

In this final session, you will learn why your ongoing personal growth matters. You will learn the difference between being “goal conscious” and “growth conscious” and why adopting a learner’s mindset is so important for long-term success.

POLICE DYNAMICS LEADERSHIP SERIES
Developed and presented by Sheriff Ray Nash, the Police Dynamics program is a series of character-based principles, known as “dynamics,” that are designed to empower law enforcement and public safety leaders to be more effective in both their professional and personal lives. The dynamics are packaged in a fast-paced and exciting program that is entertaining, enlightening, and relevant to the challenges facing public safety today. The principles are universal in their application and can strengthen and stabilize relationships within the community, inside the organization, and even family. After implementing Police Dynamics, agencies from around the world have reported an increase in morale, performance, and public support coupled with a decrease in crime, citizen complaints, and ethical failures.

Dynamic of Coactivity: The Power of Relationships
Coactive policing is a philosophy, not a program. Crime is a community problem that demands a community solution. The power for effective change rests within the agency’s relationship with the citizens it serves. In this session, officers learn how to tap into the power of community relationships and focus it on solving the underlying problems that manifest themselves in criminality.

Dynamic of Virtue: The Character Connection
Character is the seed that produces the fruit of high achievement. Most police training programs focus on competencies (behavior, performance, achievement), yet most of our problems stem from a lack of character. Establishing character-based standards is the first step to building trust in the community, encouraging high standards, strengthening internal relationships, and improving both morale and performance. Successful agencies have built a culture of character by gaining a new vocabulary, making the “character connection” by recognizing the qualities that produce achievement, and learning to anticipate the character test.

Dynamic of Authority: The Centurion Principle
This dynamic is the cornerstone of the Police Dynamics program. Faithfully representing authorities and remaining under their protection is key to avoiding negative consequences, infusing trust into relationships, affecting positive change inside and outside the walls of the agency, generating voluntary compliance with the law, overcoming resistance without force, and avoiding ethical failures. Officers have been delegated all of the lawful authority necessary to accomplish the police mission, yet they give it up on a routine basis and resort to ego-power. Virtually all instances of police misconduct can be traced back to a violation of this principle.

Dynamic of Restoration: The Way Back
Restoring renegade officers may be our greatest leadership challenge. Most officers agree that the majority of their work-related stress stems from unhealthy internal relationships. Unresolved conflicts can result in hurt, depression, anger, and jealousy that undermine internal discipline and agency effectiveness. The integration of specific character qualities is necessary to restore renegade officers and stabilize internal relationships.

Dynamic of Strongholds: Taking Back the Streets
Simply enforcing the law might solve a crime, but it does not solve the problem of crime. Criminals often rule the streets through fear and intimidation. Learn how to reclaim criminal strongholds by reducing the fear, apathy and tolerance for crime that enable them to exist.

Dynamic of Relationships: The Process of Trust
Building trust-based relationships takes time, effort and good character. But the process can be confusing and frustrating. This session gives officers a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics involved in building vital relationships within the community.

Dynamic of Discretion: The Just Exercise of Authority
One of the more powerful tools available to the executive branch is the discretionary use of authority. However, much of our discretion has been limited by legislation or judicial rulings because we have used it in an unjust manner. In this dynamic, we explore the judicious exercise of police authority and how to make discretionary decisions based on the principles of good character.

Dynamic of Compliance: Tactical Communications
In this dynamic, learn how to generate voluntary compliance through words. Physical force is often utilized prematurely resulting in liability, officer injury, disciplinary action, and other negative consequences. A professional standard of conduct exists to protect officers while overcoming the subject’s natural inclinations to resist authority. By following this standard, you will become more effective in all three of the deadly arenas: the streets, the courts and the media.

Dynamic of Jurisdictions: Making a Wise Appeal
What if your authority is operating out from under authority? What if you are instructed to do something that clearly violates an established standard? How do you make an effective appeal and what are the proper grounds to do so? The answers will help us explore jurisdictional limitations on authority.

Dynamic of Expectations: Taking Coactivity to the Streets
Citizens are sometimes critical of the police even when you have done your job well. Often, they are evaluating you based on unrealistic expectations. Learn how to ground their expectations in reality. Then discover a strategy for building public support by methodically exceeding their expectations. This powerful dynamic applies coactive policing at the street level.

Dynamic of Interposition: The Duty to Intervene
It's well recognized in the police profession that a senior officer has a duty to intervene when a subordinate officer becomes abusive towards a citizen or suspect. But what if the offending officer outranks him? Does the junior officer have a duty to intervene in order to protect the citizen? The answer is a resounding "yes!" The justification for doing so is found in a long standing legal principle called the Interposition of the Lesser Magistrate. In this session, we will explore the rationale behind the doctrine and how to exercise it in the midst of a crisis. Failure to employ this “duty to intervene” has resulted in untold tragedy in the modern era.

Dynamic of Wellness: Building Resiliency
This “bonus dynamic” focuses on the principles of emotional health and physical wellness. Both are critical to build the resiliency necessary to cope with the pressures placed on officers. Regretfully, these practices are often neglected and lead to a host of physical and emotional problems, including PTSD. Officers are presented with practical steps to implement a wellness lifestyle within the constraints of the job.

Dynamic of Supervision: Synergizing Roles
Effective supervision and dynamic leadership are found in the integration of complex organizational and team-building roles. An understanding of these specific roles is essential to motivating others to the highest standards of morale and performance.

Dynamic of Change: Mastering the Environment
Leaders must be agents and instigators of change by masterfully manipulating the environment to create conditions that are conducive to change. The ability to inspire others is the key to moving an organization forward toward accomplishing its goals. Also included is the “Integrity Check” guide for ethical decision-making.

Dynamic of Discipline: Enforcing the Standard
Typically, bad behavior is punished without giving much thought to the underlying character failure that caused it. In its simplest terms, enforcing character is making the "character connection" in reverse. A character-based model of progressive discipline provides leaders with room to exercise discretionary authority without compromising internal order.
Practical Exercises Students participate in a series of interactive exercises specifically designed to reinforce leadership perspectives and problem-solving capacities.

E5 Leadership: The Essentials of Ethical Excellence
The synergism attached to these five principles create a roadmap for character-based leadership and building a culture of character. Each one points back to the character-based standards of the organization:
1. Establish the Standard
2. Embrace the Standard
3. Encourage the Standard
4. Embody the Standard
5. Enforce the Standard

NOTE: The Police Dynamics Training Center and its training programs are officially recognized and approved by the National Sheriffs' Association, the National Command and Staff College, and the Justice Clearinghouse. Course topics are subject to change based on instructor and/or course material availability.

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