Civilian Leadership: Level Two - Supervision

This course is aimed at current and future leaders, specifically non-sworn personnel. This one-week seminar is the second of three parts in the Civilian Leadership Series. It can be taken independently or in conjunction with the other sessions.

This interactive and experiential program is designed to equip and inspire new supervisors, and reinvigorate senior supervisors, for the challenges of the fast paced and fluid world of law enforcement leadership. This generation of leaders will learn core lessons in communication, both inside and outside their agency to promote trust and confidence.

Daily Topics

• Day 1
  Supervisor Role Identification and Transition | TCOLE Rules
  Role identification and expectations of first line supervisors, along with competencies of excellent supervisors, are covered in this block of instruction. Management, individual and subordinate expectations are all discussed.
  Employee Motivation and Counseling
  Participants will learn techniques and strategies for counseling with employees and will discuss and understand variables in counseling with employees.

• Day 2
  Followership
  Participants will be able to define followership and followership styles. They will learn the ten rules of good followership; define dynamic subordinancy and critical transition for followers.
  Accountability
  Participants will learn the definition of accountability and discuss types of accountability along with mechanisms of accountability within the law enforcement profession.

• Day 3
  Managing Across Generations
  This one-day session will identify the different generations in which employees were raised and the different characteristics specific to that generation; identify the common characteristics of all generations and will learn how to use the six-step approach to manage across the different generations.

• Day 4
  Honoring Boundaries: Prevention of Sexual Harassment
  This course will define, identify and evaluate evidence of harassment. Participants will understand the organizational liability and supervisory responsibility; and will be able to develop steps to create an environment necessary to prevent harassment from occurring.
  Supervising Difficult People
  This session will examine how to supervise difficult people. Participants will learn causes of difficult behavior, different types of employees, management styles, etc.

• Day 5
  Leadership Charisma and Body Language
  This course will examine how charismatic management and communication is used to build a team of unity, pride, and purpose within any sized workgroup. Leaders with strong convictions, morals, and passions have been able to invigorate team members to accomplish extraordinary feats. People such as George Washington, Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr and Sr, Buddha and others on a much smaller scale did not only have intrinsic abilities, but they also developed skills.

*Topics and/or instructors may change based on instructor availability.

Who Should Attend

All level employees: new supervisors, veteran supervisors interested in “sharpening their saw,” senior officers, sworn and non-sworn employees.