Police Executive Leadership

Catalog description

The greatest leadership challenge facing organizations is maximizing the development of human potential. Yet, the development of this human potential is a highly personal process involving an understanding of the nature of change. In this course, we will address current trends and strategies in policing to better understand the role of the police executive, and strategic management of a police agency. Encouraging an individual to examine his/her thinking about leadership and the change process is of great importance since this process will enable the individual to create new systems rather than just resisting, coping, managing, and struggling with life changes. Leadership processes and strategies the affect decision making, influence people and build relationships are examined in this course. Leadership theories are investigated and analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated through use of case study and cohort interaction.