Course outline - Session One of Six - 24 hour abbreviated course outline

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
DEPUTY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

Day One

Focus: Identifying leadership and varying paradigms, values defined and conflicts with loyalty.

• LEADERSHIP DEFINED/SIGNIFICANCE OF PARADIGMS
  Students will understand the complexity of leadership and the varying paradigms and what are intrinsic versus extrinsic leadership definitions.
• VALUES DEFINED
  Students will understand the need for recognizing value systems and critical decision making regarding the separation of principles, morals and ethics. This section will include prejudice and the problems with gut level responses.
• COMPLEXITY OF LEADERSHIP
  Students will understand the need for recognizing their roles, as leaders, within the organization and the community at large. Students will understand the perceptions they have of themselves and others.
• UNWANTED VALUES/TRAITS/SKILLS
  Students will understand and define unwanted traits. A list will be developed to illustrate unwanted skills. Differences and how negative traits are developed will be discussed.
• LOYALTY
  Students will understand how organizational values are enforced, which organizational values are real, and which ones are not. Effectiveness at all levels will be stressed.

END OF SESSION ONE / DAY ONE

Day Two

Focus: Power and authority and their relationship to pro-active and reactive issues.

• PRO-ACTIVE VERSUS REACTIVE
  Positive actions are understood as necessities for the overall good. Seeking blame is explained as to its negative organizational impact.
• POWER VERSUS AUTHORITY
  Students will understand the need to care for others and from where power and authority arise. Definitions of power are addressed, as is how power affects morale, professionalism, and effectiveness of services. Authority is given as a possible opposite.
• TASKS VERSUS PEOPLE
  Students understand motivation, varying styles, accountability, and a grasp on Theory X and Y. Examples of a Significant Emotional Event (S.E.E.) will be provided. S.E.E.'s are attributed to most learning situations.
• DISCIPLINE VERSUS PUNISHMENT
  Students will understand the differences between discipline and punishment. What are the traditional views of discipline? A standard to set normal behavior versus seeking to exceed the standard is examined. Negative connotations are discussed for group interaction.

END OF SESSION ONE / DAY TWO

Day Three

Focus: The issues of journal work, group dynamics, support and undermining are identified.

• JOURNAL DISCUSSION
  Examples of journal work are discussed for review and relevance. Students will understand the importance of journals and their effect on various issues.
• GROUP ATTITUDES
  Students will recognize, as leaders, the different dynamics involved with group characteristics. Students will study the consequences of inter-group activities and the lack of individual action.
• SUPPORTIVENESS VERSUS UNDERMINING
  Students will come to understand supportiveness and the power that support has on the organization. What prevents individuals from providing support? What part do ego and competition play?

  Students will come to understand why and how individuals and groups undermine the overall good.

END OF SESSION ONE / DAY THREE