This portfolio will yield a product for you to share with prospective or current
This portfolio will yield a product for you to share with prospective or current employers in order to enhance your employment possibilities and promotion potential. The course project promotes your development and personal commitment to the required knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) required for understanding, assimilating, and demonstrating professional public safety leadership. In preparing your portfolio, you will have the opportunity to review leadership from a historical and an operational perspective and will be able to 1.evaluate your own leadership style and effectiveness. Completion of the course-long personal leadership project solidifies foundation KSAs in order to: 2.evaluate decision making in relation to historic and current issues in public safety through case studies and simulation
3. explain the relationship between successful leadership, organizational development, and technology and the way these factors affect decision making
4.discuss the importance of ethics, globalization, systems thinking, proactive leadership, and leader-follower relationships to successful leadership in public safety
5.identify and discuss the major leadership theories and concepts applicable to public safety
6.explain the importance of leadership in organizational processes and change
7.cite examples of successful leadership styles and techniques in progressive public administration
8. complete case study reviews and an operational simulation based on major public safety issues
9. identify future public safety challenges and potential solutions
10.synthesize your learning experience in your major discipline to apply the knowledge and skills to practical individual and organizational challenges
The Leadership Development Project Process
The project is a course-length process managed using specified development steps that correlate with specific course materials. Aspects of this process will be addressed in the course conferences each week. The first of the two project deliverables is the personal leadership history report.