The three courses will introduce you to leadership concepts and how to apply them to your department setting. You will further develop abilities to diagnose individual, departmental and organizational strengths and weaknesses and create effective intervention strategies to assist you in guiding your department to meet the ever changing global world in which we must operate. Training prepares us to perform the tasks; education prepares us for dealing with all segments of our duties. The Emergency Services Leadership program is designed to prepare you to deal with peers, personnel, community representatives, politicians and other stakeholders.
LDRS 490: Topics: Introduction to Emergency Services Leadership (Fall 2009)
Through this journey, you will explore, compare and contrast important leadership theories and apply your knowledge of these theories to develop a personal philosophy of leadership that will prove effective in your particular emergency services discipline.
LDRS 490: Topics: Assessment in Emergency Services Organizations (Spring 2010)
This course provides students with an understanding of how consultants study and change organizations. Students will learn applied research methods by examining quantitative, qualitative and mixed method strategies. Students will further identify what they intend to study, develop an assessment project, execute the method and analyze the results.
LDRS 490: Topics: Developing Leadership Capacity in Organizations (Summer 2010)
Students will apply leadership concepts and assessment techniques to the design, delivery and analysis of leadership development interventions. Students will develop practical applications to leadership development programs on individual, unit and organizational levels.
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