Builiding Trust Through Cross-cultural and Leadership Training
The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management, is pleased to present a pioneering new ethics training program for law enforcement. This 5-day training, Officer as Contemporary Leader in the Multi-cultural Community: New Ethical Strategies for Law Enforcement, explores issues and challenges officers with new approaches to the challenges officers and agents face in the changing demographics of rural and urban America. This groundbreaking and highly interactive training uses a responsibility-based approach that builds in officers confidence in personal judgment as they address the everyday experiences of policing in areas of changing demographics. The awareness and skills obtained are immediately applicable.
This training focuses on leadership skills essential in implementing improved community relations, agency effectiveness, succession planning, and officer retention. Successfully building relationships among community opinion leaders and members in general requires in all officers specific skills associated with leadership. Developing these skills requires leadership training for all officers in an agency.
The program minimizes lecture and applies simulations, case discussion, media examples, self-assessments, agency assessments, culture assessments, as well as peer learning. Participants identify the issues they face in their communities. These real issues are integrated into the program content throughout the five days, seamlessly integrating four modules: Current and future state of law enforcement in the 21st century; communicating effectively across cultures; problem solving through ethical decision making; and developing leadership skills in all agency officers.
Through participation in an initial cross-cultural simulation, several issues and problems related to communicating across cultures are raised. Culture and values assessments are completed and discussed as they create greater awareness and understanding of cultural issues that affect officer effectiveness. Cross-cultural communication skills are presented and practiced, developing officer abilities to more effectively communicate with those of other cultures, thus creating opportunities to build better relationships in the community.
More than ever, leaders are needed in law enforcement throughout the organization. TWI's program has a strong leadership component thal will build the leaders of the future. The program includes information and activities that develop skills including ethical decision making, communication, and cross-cultural effectiveness. Participants assess themselves with various professional assessments which help them understand how to better communicate with others in their communities. The skills learned and reinforced are critical skills necessary for effective community based policing and problem-oriented policing. They increase levels of cultural understanding and help build strong leaders and departments.
“Patrol officers are the eyes and ears of the police effort, and they must be encouraged and trained to look and listen intelligently.” Intelligence-Led Policing: The New Intelligence Architecture (US Department of Justice, BJA 09/05).
Who Should Attend:
Pubic Safety Officers
Public Safety Supervisors
Field Training Personnel
Training Personnel
Policy Makers
Internal Affairs Investigators
Human Resources
Personnel Managers
The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build ethics in community. Based on the premise that ethics is more than codes of conduct and policies, it is about people, relationships, and individual decision making, this groundbreaking approach establishes the benchmark for the future.
or call James Young at 480-244-4677.