Full Description
Thoroughly revised to reflect significant changes in policing over the past decade, this new edition of Blackstone's Leadership for Sergeants and Inspectors offers an accessible, practical guide to leadership in routine and complex situations across all areas of police work. In policing, the need to demonstrate leadership can arise at any moment: in public order situations, community meetings and among colleagues at work. Enhancing your leadership skills can help ensure that you inspire and motivate others, improving interactions with the wide range of people you will encounter, from members of the public to social services and partner agencies.
This book discusses leadership and teamwork skills through a series of questions to consider during your everyday police work. With clear and concise explanations, the author draws on 30 years' experience as a police officer to bring you detailed theory and practice across a range of leadership areas, including ethical professionalism, stress management, equality, diversity and neurodiversity, multi-cultural teams, delegation, coaching, misconduct and discipline. Helpful hints and tips provide context to leadership issues and examples of leadership skills in practice. The book's 32 skills checklists act as a 'tool kit' for the busy police officer needing to deal with events efficiently and effectively.
Whether you are just embarking on your police career, have been recently promoted, or simply want to refresh your leadership skills, Leadership for Sergeants and Inspectors will support and assist you, helping you to get the best out of your team, your colleagues, and your encounters with the public.
Contents
Part One: LeadershipDLtheory and practice
1: Policing in England and Wales and the purpose of this book
2: Exploring the concept of leadership
3: Leadership and team work
4: Valuing, protecting and enhancing public esteem
5: The College of PolicingDLethics, leadership standards, competence and values, and decision making
6: Stress management and long Covid-19 considerations
7: Treating people equally
8: Valuing diversity
9: Dealing with unethical behaviours and workplace ineffectiveness sometimes without obvious causes
10: Planning
11: Delegation
12: Problem solving
13: Coaching skills
14: Leaders as agents of change (change management)
15: Motivation
16: Misconduct and discipline
17: CommunicationsDLgeneral discussion
18: CommunicationsDLinterpersonal skills
19: Positive communicationsDLassertiveness
20: Communications - modes of behaviour and transactional analysis
21: CommunicationsDLfeedback
22: CommunicationsDLbriefing skills
23: CommunicationsDLdebriefing skills
24: CommunicationsDLinfluencing skills
25: Influencing skillsDLreport writing
26: Meeting skills
27: Self-development for the leader and encouraging leadership skills in others
Part Two: LeadershipDLcompetence checklists (toolkit)
Checklist 1DLLeader's leadership skills
Checklist 2DLLeader's team skills
Checklist 3DLLeader's team audit
Checklist 4DLLeader's valuing, protecting and enhancing public esteem
Checklist 5DLThe College of PolicingDLleader's Code of Ethics
Checklist 6DLThe College of PolicingDLleadership standards
Checklist 7DLLeader's Competency and Values Framework
Checklist 8DLLeader's National Decision Model
Checklist 9DLLeader's stress and long-Covid considerations
Checklist 10DLLeader's dealing with unethical behaviours and workplace ineffectiveness sometimes without obvious causes
Checklist 11DLLeader's treating people equally
Checklist 12DLLeader's valuing diversity
Checklist 13DLLeader's planning
Checklist 14DLLeader's planning SMART objectives
Checklist 15DLLeader's delegation
Checklist 16DLLeader's problem solving
Checklist 17DLLeader's problem solving: brainstorming
Checklist 18DLLeader's coaching skills
Checklist 19DLLeader's change management
Checklist 20DLLeader's motivation skills
Checklist 21DLLeader's misconduct and discipline
Checklist 22DLLeader's communication skills
Checklist 23DLLeader's interpersonal skills
Checklist 24DLLeader's assertiveness skills
Checklist 25DLLeader's modes of behaviour and transactional analysis
Checklist 26DLLeader's communications feedback
Checklist 27DLLeader's briefing skills
Checklist 28DLLeader's debriefing skills
Checklist 29DLLeader's influencing skills
Checklist 30DLLeader's report-writing skills
Checklist 31DLLeader's meeting skills
Checklist 32DLLeader's self-development skills for self and others
