This web site and blog will help all of us together to achieve the objectives detailed in our book, Every Officer Is A Leader.  At this time in history it is imperative that leaders equip current leaders and themselves, and then the next generation of leaders to meet the challenges that lie ahead. We want to help you in this interactive blog to develop as a leader and equip you to develop other leaders who you will coach or mentor in the future.

What are the specific objectives of our book, Every Officer Is A Leader, and therefore, this website and blog?

Effective leaders are required to manage local, national, and international security. This Revised 2nd Edition illustrates how and why leadership development is a necessary preparation for managing change and risk, including the new local, national, and international security issues that are upon us.

We believe that building a Leadership and Learning Organization is a necessary pre-requisite for having a healthy and capable organization that can effectively manage the public’s safety; this book and blog both will reveal how this can be done and how it has been done in the real world.

This book, and blog, and the support materials and consulting that can accompany it, will provide a systematic way for organizations to build accountability into their organizations through the use of the Continuous Improvement Team processes at the supervisory and managerial levels.

This blog can provide readers with more real examples from the field to reveal how and where a new leadership coaching focus can help develop leadership skills and install organization-wide Continuous Improvement Teams and approaches.

The book and blog will unveil future trends in leadership development, and be on the cutting edge of new initiatives in this area.

The book and blog will reveal how leadership development has had and can have a profound impact on the morale and performance of individual officers, teams, public safety organizations.  It can provide a forum for the discussion of practical and comprehensive competency-based leadership assessment and a planning for the education and training of police, justice, public safety, and security executives supervisors, managers, and front-line officers.

The book and this blog can provide a tested and proven Problem and Opportunity Coaching Model to guide leaders to facilitate collaborative problem-solving and decision-making so that subordinates will support and execute agreed upon plans and initiatives.

It clarifies how and why personal, team, and organization development skills discussed in this book are necessary pre-requisites to the successful implementation of any community safety, security or crime reduction initiatives.

There are 60 leadership competencies in the book:  We invite you to start discussions based on a specific skill or group of skills (there are five “competency clusters” of twelve skills in each cluster of skills) that you have read and implemented, or want to implement.  You can refer to them by name and skill number from 1-60.

We want to learn how you have been successful (or unsuccessful) in implementing the skills in your leadership journey.