The content of ICLD IV was researched and field tested for over a period of more than 30 years in university and justice and public safety environments including police, corrections, customs, immigration, homeland security, and private security. It is based on the breakthrough book titled, Every Officer is A Leader: Coaching Leadership and Learning in Justice, Public Safety and Security Organizations (Revised 2nd Edition). The course was filmed at LAPD and piloted in collaboration with Deputy Chief Mark Perez and his Team of Leaders at the Los Angeles Police Department. This highly competent team was carefully selected to be able to demonstrate the skills involved in Credible Leadership throughout the course.
The breakthrough of this course is that officers are now able to take self-responsibility for mastering the 60 Skills that enable them to perform the 40 Tasks and Responsibilities research has revealed are critical for leadership success in justice and public safety. Never before has professional leadership been so well-defined and distilled so it is easily and quickly learned. The course is a research-based, online, performance enhancement learning process that equips leaders to express more empathic caring and ethical consciousness, and to be more capable of developing themselves, other leaders, teams, and organizations.
At the end of Phase, students will be able to achieve the following objectives in accordance with the information received in class:
- Understand self-management skills for personal development.
- Have the ability to build strength and maintain a grounded state of resilience even in a high-stress situation.
- Develop a command presence based on a deep inner sense of calm and stability.
- Understand your own natural style of communicating with others
- To understand and apply the four Facilitative Conditions: Genuineness, Empathy, Respect, and Specificity.
- Understand the difference between Coaching, Counseling, and Mentoring.
- Understand the importance of accessing the development and functioning levels of others.
- Become more capable of creating high-performance and high-morale teams.
- Understand how Versatility Skills help you to develop your own style and become more responsive to the unique and changing characteristics of individuals, teams, and organizations
The Organization as an Open System is the first of several lessons in this area that allows us to view the leadership process from a different perspective. Viewing the leadership process from an organizational level of analysis helps us gain a different but useful perspective and gives us a new set of variables for analyzing situations. The areas of interest characteristic of the organizational level of analysis are more global and systemic in nature than those of the individual and group levels of analysis. An understanding of the different variables that our leaders must consider in decision-making helps us to better understand the context in which we exercise direct level leadership. To aid this understanding, this lesson presents an open systems model of organizations consisting of a complex set of interdependent components existing in and interacting with its external environment.
The open systems model of organizations clearly illustrates that organizations do not exist independently. They operate in environments which directly and indirectly affect the organization. Although the external environment is outside the organization’s boundaries, we must understand that certain factors in the external environment influence what goes on inside the organization.
- GOALS AND VALUES: These are the organization’s task requirements and basic standards that must be accomplished and subscribed to for the organization to fulfill its prescribed purpose or function within society.
- TECHNICAL SYSTEM: This subsystem refers to “how” we accomplish organizational tasks. This includes the knowledge required for the performance of the tasks and accomplishment of the goals and values as well as the techniques and processes used in the transformation of inputs into outputs. These include the equipment, tools and facilities as well as the operating techniques and specific expertise. The technology affects the organization’s structure as well as its psychosocial subsystem.
- PSYCHOSOCIAL SYSTEM: This subsystem refers to the interactions of individuals and groups in the organization. These interactions include individual behavior and motivation, status and role relationships, group dynamics and influence systems.
- STRUCTURAL SYSTEM: This subsystem is characterized by the ways in which the tasks of the organization are organized and coordinated (differentiation and integration), as well as the established patterns of relationships among the components or parts of the organization. Structure is set forth by the organizational chart, by positions and job descriptions, and by rules and procedures. It also is defined by the patterns of authority, communications, and work flow. Structure and technology are very much interdependent. A good way of understanding the difference of the two is that technology focuses on the knowledge and processes of the transformation of inputs to outputs; while structure is how we organize and coordinate the knowledge and processes.
- LEADERSHIP SYSTEM: This subsystem spans and integrates the entire organization by setting the goals, directing the technology, developing comprehensive, strategic and operational plans, designing structure and allocating resources, establishing control processes, and relating the organization to its environments. At this point in the course, you should fully appreciate the influence of the leadership system on the Psycho-Social system in the organization.
As an organizational leader, we must seek to protect the primary or technical core functions of our organization. Forces in the environment that affect the organization can be classified into two major categories: environmental uncertainty and organizational dependency–also referred to as informational uncertainty and resource dependency, respectively, by some researchers. If there is a lack of information about environmental factors and there is difficulty in predicting external changes, environmental uncertainty exists. When the environment is the source of scarce and valued resources essential to the organization’s mission, organizational dependency is present. In order to gain greater control and predictability over these forces, we will need to employ various coping strategies. These strategies allow leaders to monitor and influence the environment on a continuing basis, thus protecting the technical core of the organization.
Leaders in organizations must understand their organization’s place within the larger organization and the environment. Focal leaders are not independent actors nor are their organizations placed within a sterile or stable environment. Each leader must understand the organization she leads and the larger organization and environment within which her organization is found. Failure to do this will result in confusion, lost energy, and failure to reach the senior leader’s organizational goal.
Read more in your Manual – Pages 347-436
MAGNUS Well-being Part 1: Strengthening Your Resilience & Anti-fragility
“GRIT is a positive trait with perseverance and passion that helps us push through Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA). RESILIENCE is the speed by which we recover from it. HARDINESS is the ability to neurologically strengthen our capacity with valence, before, during and after It.” … Mitch Javidi, Ph.D
Dr. Mitch Javidi, Ph.D, Chancellor, National Command & Staff College is an envisioneer with over 35 years of practical and hands-on Leadership Development and Consulting experience in diverse industries including Academia, Military, Law Enforcement, Government, Pharmaceuticals, Supply Change, Automotive and Technology. As a globally recognized leader, he is the founder of the National Command & Staff College, Co-Founder of Beroe Inc. and the founder of Digiton Corporation, a leading Supply Chain Optimization and Consulting Company with an exit back in 2006. He has trained fortune 100 leaders worldwide including the Command & Staff at the Joint Special Operations Command “JSOC” and the US Army Special Operations Command “USASOC.” He was awarded the honorary member of the United States Army Special Operations Command in 1999, honorary Sheriff by the National Sheriffs’ Association in 2016 and honorary Police Commander by the Santa Fe ISD Police Department (2019). He was also the recipient of the “Spirit Award” from the National Tactical Officers’ Association. This prestigious award is presented by NTOA to an individual whose work saves lives (2019).… Read More
Dr. Bryce Kaye is the founder and director of Allied Psychological Services in Cary, N.C. He earned his doctorate in personality psychology from the University of Illinois. His first research focused on the phenomenon of emotional reactance to the elimination of freedom. Early in his career he authored and directed federal research on predicting the outcome of outpatient alcoholism treatment. He was Director of Outpatient Services for Wake County Alcoholism Treatment Center from 1977 to 1983. In 1984, Dr. Kaye founded Cary Counseling Center that later incorporated into Allied Psychological Services. Over his 40 years of practice, Dr. Kaye has treated thousands of clients with individual psychotherapy and thousands more in couples counseling. He is certified in EMDR psychotherapy (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) for treating psychological trauma, is on the research committee of the EMDR International Association and has published on the psychophysiology underlying EMDR. Based on his knowledge of psychophysiology, Dr. Kaye has evolved numerous treatment protocols for healing trauma and unconscious schemas, raising level of consciousness, strengthening internal boundaries and repairing marriages. In 2008 he authored his book The Marriage First Aid Kit that explains relationship dynamics and how to heal underlying damage in intimate relationships. Dr. Kaye and his wife currently live part-time on their sailboat in coastal North Carolina where they perform marriage interventions for couples who fly in from across the country. Their separate corporation is named “Love Odyssey.” He still maintains a practice treating individuals and couples at Cary Counseling Center.
MAGNUS Well-being Part 2: Strengths, Challenges and Coping in the time of COVID-19
Overview: That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Our greatest test, as individuals, families and communities, comes in times of crisis. In the current crisis, our leadership and coping tools are being tested. The outcome of these tests is a function of our brain fitness. This seminar will describe the various elements of brain fitness: the equilibrating factors that determine mood, motivation, mental performance, social orientation and resilience.
Dr. Mitch Javidi, Ph.D, Chancellor, National Command & Staff College is an envisioneer with over 35 years of practical and hands-on Leadership Development and Consulting experience in diverse industries including Academia, Military, Law Enforcement, Government, Pharmaceuticals, Supply Change, Automotive and Technology. As a globally recognized leader, he is the founder of the National Command & Staff College, Co-Founder of Beroe Inc. and the founder of Digiton Corporation, a leading Supply Chain Optimization and Consulting Company with an exit back in 2006. He has trained fortune 100 leaders worldwide including the Command & Staff at the Joint Special Operations Command “JSOC” and the US Army Special Operations Command “USASOC.” He was awarded the honorary member of the United States Army Special Operations Command in 1999, honorary Sheriff by the National Sheriffs’ Association in 2016 and honorary Police Commander by the Santa Fe ISD Police Department (2019). He was also the recipient of the “Spirit Award” from the National Tactical Officers’ Association. This prestigious award is presented by NTOA to an individual whose work saves lives (2019).… Read More
Dr. Antonio Ocana is a physician who listens. He sits at the crossroads of community medicine, addiction medicine and mental health. He received an MSc in Clinical Nutrition and MD from University of Toronto, Canada. He did his Family Medicine residency in Calgary, Alberta in 1993. He completed a fellowship in addiction medicine at the University of British Columbia in 2004. Dr. Ocana has been caring for first responders since 2003 when he was employed as an occupational health and disability consultant for the RCMP, E Division in Vancouver Canada. Since then, he has provided longitudinal care for hundreds of police, fire, corrections and military personnel. Dr. Ocana has won awards for his research and has taught mental health to students, physicians, psychiatrists, nurses and pharmacists. He has given keynote addresses in workplace mental health to HR professionals, benefits providers and policy makers. He has a keen interest in ADHD, psychopharmacology and addiction medicine and is considered an international expert in those three fields. He is sought for his medical-legal opinion by police agencies, insurers, disability managers, employers, academia and the courts. Dr. Ocana is also an entrepreneur, CEO and founder of Epiphany360 a technology company that improves the mental healthcare experience for both patients and clinicians. Most importantly, Dr. Ocana has 25 years-experience assessing and managing patients with complex mental health conditions including addictions to all substances and behaviours including Compulsive Gambling, Eating and Gaming Disorders; Mood Disorders, Eating Disorders, PTSD as well as Chronic Pain and Fatigue Syndromes. Dr. Ocana, is a specialist in mental health and addiction, qualified to practice in both Canada and the US through Sage Mental Health and Addiction Clinic at [email protected]
