Front Line Leadership
Hosting Agency: Glendale Police Department
Location: Glendale Regional Public Safety Training Center Room 109
11550 W Glendale Ave, Glendale AZ 85307
Dates: Monday, November 11, 2024 to Thursday November 14, 2024
Class Hours: 8:30am – 4pm
Course description:
The Arizona POST’s Front Line Leadership (formerly titled the Basic Leadership Academy or BLA) emphasizes contemporary leadership principles and concepts for public safety professionals who have recently;
- Been promoted to Sergeant or Lieutenant
- Are soon-to-be promoted into a front line supervisory position (i.e., waiting list)
- Or assigned as Field Training Officer
Making the transition from police officer to a police supervisor is a challenge. However, such a transition is made simpler with an education on the science of management coupled with the art of leadership. Front Line Leadership or FLL, is designed to build industry knowledge and skills that better enable attendees to successfully transition from a line level employee into a leadership position in the career of public safety. Content will introduce students to the fundamental concepts and skills of professionalism, organizational culture and management, characteristics of effective teams, conflict resolution, motivation, systems thinking, problem solving, and leadership. Possibly the most important and impactful aspect of this course involves the tools that will be provided to cause self-reflection in each attendee. Purposefully designed with self-examining reflective modules, a detailed workshop on personality profile assessment, as well as directed group discussions driven to challenge one's thought process, this training will provide each student the ability to continuously assess and improve upon their own leadership behavior.