The Sergeants' Leadership Program™
The TSLP curriculum builds the skills of sergeants in the leading people functions. Participants enthusiastically have embraced the opportunity to use our training to build from their own experiences, and to take ownership and responsibility for their own growth as leaders.
We offer TSLP in public classes to individual sergeants; to individual departments to train all their sergeants and to associations, to train the sergeants of member departments.
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TSLP invites participants to reflect, share questions and uncertainties with their peers, and ultimately, to grow into better leaders through this experience. Three principles guide our effort to address the leadership gaps identified above. Each of these principles is reflected in curriculum elements which are not available in other training programs.
Theme: Understanding Your Leadership Style
We use the Myers Briggs Type Inventory along with lecture and exercises which help participants to understand the diversity of personality preferences, and their implications for teams working together. Participants learn how to leverage their own strengths to create stronger teams and to be better leaders.
Theme: Transitions and Emotional Survival
TSLP focuses on three stages of transition, helping participants to understand the difference between managing and reacting to changes, and to help them identify strategies to use this transition to set the stage for a successful future as a team leader, teacher, and coach.
Incorporating the work of Dr. Kevin Gilmartin, TSLP invites participants to consider the toll of police work, and to build strategies to manage stress and protect their emotional health — and that of their subordinates.
Theme: Assessing and Strengthening your Leadership Skills
Joseph Badaracco Jr. precisely describes the teaching role of sergeants in this passage: "Managers are the ethics teachers of their organizations. This is true whether they are saints or sinners, whether they intend to teach ethics or not." TSLP offers sergeants the opportunity to examine their role — and build new skills — as teachers, coaches and managers. We use custom-designed, interactive exercises which help participants to practice coaching, teaching and leading.
Theme: Managing Groups and Teams
Sergeants need skills to lead teams (of patrol officers) and manage groups (their units, as well as community groups, multi-disciplinary partnerships, and task forces, etc.). We work with the participants to understand theories of group dynamics, facilitation for maximum participation, and how to manage conflict in meeting settings.
