National Emergency Management Leaders Academy
E452 Leadership Attributes II – Advanced Management Concepts and Styles
Course Overview
Course Two addresses the same cross-cutting themes as Course One, looking at different or in some cases more advanced applications of the same themes: organizational management (organizational design, organizational structures, organizational planning – building on the management styles/qualities discussion in Course One); decision-making and problem-solving (group decision-making and consensus building – building on the basics of strategic thinking, problem solving and decision-making covered in Course One); collaboration and communication (intergovernmental and Interagency relations and collaborations; private sector/NGO interfaces – expanding upon the collaboration and communications discussions during Course One); resource management (fiscal, physical, staff – honing in on these three areas after the higher level discussion during Course One); planning (strategic planning, budgeting, and policy application); analysis and evaluation (program evaluation – building up on the introduction to evaluation in EM presented in Course One); and ethics as related to all of the above.
Selection Criteria
This course is designed for current and emerging leaders in emergency management. The target audience includes government, non-profit voluntary organization, and private sector managers responsible for emergency management or homeland security, including:
- State, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management or homeland security program staff and managers;
- Federal department heads and branch chiefs of emergency management or homeland security;
- Directors and managers of non-profit voluntary organizations;
- Private sector managers leading emergency management offices and related programs; and
- Emergency management program directors from all organizations listed above with significant authority and responsibilities.
Course Length
4 days
