The Art Of Modern Leadership

Phonse MacNeil and Tim Brodie are the facilitators for this new leadership program developed exclusively for the Atlantic Police Academy.  Drawing from the leadership principles of the Canadian Forces combined with the operational needs of a public safety culture, the learners explore topics like the 10 principles of leadership and other relationship models designed to create high performance teams in operationally stressful environments. 

Years of research on the current trends impacting police organizations throughout the Atlantic region culminated in the combination of traditional lessons with up-to-date evidence-based processes that create this innovative and reflective program.  Through extensive connections and interviews with police members we have developed a program that best fits the leadership needs of a modern police team.

These nine days of learning are a combination of experiential learning mixed with a wide variety of models that can be applied to develop individual leadership capacities.  However, the learning also requires a deep amount of self-reflection.  The facilitators pose questions around the essential skills of a successful leader in contrast to the natural strengths and unconscious blind spots of the learners.

Part of the learning experience will use tested personality and behaviour inventories to allow for deeper discussions including stress inventories, personality style assessments and emotional intelligences metrics.  True leadership development simply does not happen without deep self-reflection and we incorporate the tools to do that.  We will apply the Big Five personality styles indicator and the PXT Select Inventory process to name only two of the multiple inventories that will help discover the path to the applied science of leadership in a public safety environment.

On completion of the course, the participants are offered the opportunity to complete an organizational project customized for their own team by applying the skills and knowledge acquired during the training.  Both Phonse MacNeil and Tim Brodie will provide coaching and mentorship for the full six months of the project.

From theory to knowledge acquisition to project implementation the learners are supported completely.  There simply is no other leadership development learning experience like this.

Outcomes:

• Learners will gain insight into the art of leadership and how it applies in a broad public safety environment.
• Learners will increase their self-awareness using proven psychometric tools.
• Learners will see how their emotional intelligence impacts their team environment.
• Learners will have extensive professional support in conducting a six month project to enhance team dynamics in their home organization.