About the Book
Effective leaders are required to manage local, national and international security. This new edition illustrates how and why leadership development is a necessary preparation for managing change and risk, including the new local, national and international security issues that are upon us. A new chapter has been added to reveal important security implications that all leaders must consider when they make leadership decisions that will affect personal, organizational or community safety. Co-author and security consulting expert Kenneth Gisborne presents issues and solutions for leaders to consider and implement.
The authors' significant innovative contribution to the leadership literature is a focus on the necessity to build a leadership organization before - and to an extent, while - you move ahead into building a learning organization that is responsive to community and internal organizational needs. Building a Leadership and Learning Organization is a necessary pre-requisite for having a healthy and capable organization that can effectively manage the publicís safety.
It provides a tested and proven Problem and Opportunity Coaching Model to guide leaders to facilitate collaborative problem-solving and decision-making so that subordinates will support and execute the plans and initiatives that are agreed to.
The book provides a practical and comprehensive, competency-based leadership assessment and planning-for-development model (Transforming Leadership) for the education and training of police, justice, public safety and security executives supervisors, managers and front line officers.
The Transforming Leadership Model elucidated in this book integrates other leadership and organization development and change models into a holistic leadership development framework. This integration makes otherwise complex theory a hard-hitting and practical manual for leadership success.
It furnishes a map for developing critical leadership skills through self-and other-assessment, and includes the developmental aspects of leadership that nurture emotional and what the authors call ìorganizational intelligence.
It examines how leadership development has a profound impact on the morale and performance of individual officers, teams, and organizations, illustrating in depth and detail how police and other justice and public safety leaders (in corrections, fire, customs, immigration, security, courts, etc.) can implement the Transforming Leadership process, skills, and principles.
It clarifies how and why personal, team, and organization development skills discussed in this book are necessary pre-requisites to successful implementation of any proactive and/or preventive community policing or community safety initiatives.
It adds clarity, perspective, and examples that demonstrate how individual leaders can develop themselves, and one another, into high-performance team leaders who motivate others to respond to issues that affect the morale, health, and safety of the organizations in which they work and in the communities in which they serve.
It provides a systematic way for organizations to build accountability into the organization through the use of continuous improvement process and teaming at the supervisory and management levels.
Updated real examples from the field reveal how and where a new leadership coaching focus has helped to install organization-wide continuous improvement teams and approaches.
An update of future trends that leaders need to know by Dr. Gene Stephens. He presents applicable principles for effective public safety leadership in the future, with the lessons learned from 9/11 and other recent events.
This new edition still contains the same validated (with over 4000 police leaders) competencies and powerful applications of field-tested leadership skills and practices that apply directly to the work of police, justice and public safety leaders.
Bonus in this 2nd Edition: Real world reports on the implementation of the Transforming Leadership approach have been added, and include lessons learned about obstacles to successful implementation of strategic initiatives.
