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Every Officer is a Leader: Coaching Leadership, Learning and Performance in Justice, Public Safety, and Security Organizations

by Terry D. Anderson PhD, Keneth Gisborne CPP and Patrick Holliday MA

393 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-0357; ISBN 1-4120-2529-x; US$59.95, C$68.94, EUR49.24, £34.47

The authors present a new and powerfully recast second edition of this bestselling book that equips justice and public safety leaders to self-assess and develop validated leadership competencies.

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Every Officer is a Leader: Coaching Leadership, Learning and Performance in Justice, Public Safety and Security Organizations, authored by experts in leadership, law enforcement and security, responds to the need for a reappraisal of leadership styles in the public safety sector since September 11, 2001. Building on two previous successful publications, the authors examine the profound impact of leadership on the organizational behavior at the individual, team and organizational level in justice, security and public safety agencies in this new era. Using a multi-source and multi-disciplinary approach presented through a combination of theory and practical examples, leaders in police, corrections, customs, courts, security and other regulatory agencies are shown how to effectively implement processes to create what the authors are calling a "leadership and learning organization."

The Transforming Leadership process used in Every Officer is a Leader is founded in the concepts of competency-based leadership and action learning. The authors focus on the need to prepare leaders who, after building the "leadership organization," move into building the "learning organization" that is responsive to both the external and internal stakeholders served by those in the organization. The authors provide research-based competency assessments and a free online tool kit for building continuous improvement teams. These easy to apply and proven systems will equip leaders to build both their own and others' leadership capacity while they simultaneously improve organizational performance.

The 21st Century leader must establish the links necessary for proper coordination of effort among all public safety agencies. In addition, leaders must nurture the personal relationships with other agencies, both public and private, necessary to allow seamless cooperation before crises occur, and during times of crisis. This new edition of Every Officer is a Leader is called for by the events of history.

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About the Authors

Terry D. Anderson, Ph.D.

Dr. Anderson's experience includes teaching more than 7,000 adults for over 30 years in the areas of communication, problem management and organizational leadership full time in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University College of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, B.C. He has also served as an adjunct instructor or professor at the California Command College, the Justice Institute of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Trinity Western University, Union Institute of Sacramento, the University of British Columbia, and in 2002-2003 taught Executive Coaching in the School of Business at Royal Roads University. His work as a researcher, organizational consultant, team developer and executive coach has been with organizations such as San Diego Police, Folsom Police, the RCMP, Vancouver Police, New Westminster Police, Abbotsford Police, Corrections Canada, and Customs Canada.

Kenneth D. Gisborne, CPP

Ken Gisborne's policing career spanned twenty years as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, with significant time spent in the areas of crime prevention, technical security, and security program management. Since his retirement in 1994, he has continued this work as a private security consultant. Ken holds a Certified Protection Professional designation through the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) and is a former Chairperson of the Canadian Pacific Chapter of ASIS. He is currently the Director of Operations for 3Si Risk Strategies Inc.

As a respected security management consultant, Ken has provided his technical expertise to numerous Canadian Federal Government departments on issues such as security program analysis and evaluation, design of security processes and systems in construction projects, and protection of the highest levels of Internationally Protected Persons. Ken's numerous consulting clients have included federal, provincial and municipal governments, policing agencies, land, air and ocean port facilities, universities, hospitals and other public institutions, property management groups, and financial institutions in Canada, the U.S. and Asia.

Patrick N. Holliday, MA

Pat Holliday is an experienced leader with over thirty years of military and police service in operational and administrative supervisory and management positions. He is currently the President and principal consultant of Prime HR Consulting Group Inc. Prime HR assists public and private organizations in the evaluation and development of their people assets so that they may effectively respond to the business and "real world" challenges of today and tomorrow.

Pat is Associate Faculty in the School of Leadership Studies of Royal Roads University where he teaches in the MA in Leadership degree program. He is Part-Time Studies Faculty in the British Columbia Institute of Technology, School of Business, where his areas of teaching expertise include Organizational Behavior and Principles of Management.

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