You may think someday you would make a good officer-first-class, corporal or sergeant, maybe you already are one, but what you think doesn’t really matter.  How you are perceived by those who work with and under you is what matters.  Are you just a glorified patrol officer or a wanna be? Or do you really want to make a positive difference? Are you a leader? Before you answer that, what would the officers on your shift say about you if they could respond anonymously? If your promotion was determined by a vote of the people you work with, would you make it? Stripes on your shirt may mean something to civilians, but the people you work will decide if you deserve them or not. Supervison and leadership are two totally different concepts. While supervisors may be in leadership positions, leadership doesn’t necessarily need a title.  In fact, on a day-to-day basis, the most important leadership in a department rarely comes from the top and we all know that. However, when you can combine both, particularly in first line supervisory roles, the agency, everyone in it and the community benefits.  Look around at what is going on it our Nation, good cops, role model cops are retiring in droves. They need to be replaced, but if you are just thinking about getting promoted and making more money, you might just want to stay where you are.  Today, more than ever before in our history, these two concepts of supervision and leadership are needed by all law enforcement officers and this 3-day course is taught with those two roles in mind. 

Day 1

What is Supervision?  Supervision 101: Experience Counts

Supervisory Styles:  Leadership vs Management: Are You Patton or Sun Tzu?

What are the Challenges in Motivational Supervision of Officers Today? Motivating Gen X, Gen Y and the Future

Supervisors and Subordinate Officers: How the Two Can and Should Interact

Decision Making Process, The OODA Loop and the Supervisor:  Adaptive Learning: The “Failure” Model

Crisis Decision Making: Decision Making Under Stress

Day2 

Building the “Better” Supervisor: Supervisory Field Training: The Keys to the Kingdom

Law Enforcement Ethics/Supervisor Ethics

Interaction Between Ethics, Morals and the Law:  What are you prepared to do? Law Enforcement Culture: The Thin Blue Line

Ethic Case Studies

Emotions and Supervision:  Taking Command Calmly:  Apathy kills more than just the man

Day 3

Evaluating Officers:  Measurable Standards of Performance: Anecdotal vs Numbers Based Formulas

The Toxic Officer: Controlling the Poisonous Tree

Supervisory Growth:  Forward Progress: Defining where we are going. What we hope to achieve. 

Management Conflicts:  Command vs Line Staff

Staying True to One’s Self