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Filters: Leadership and Executive Development
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Applied Research Design for Fire and Emergency Medical Services (Q0427)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Learn the skills necessary for successfully planning for and completing an Applied Research Paper including elements of research design, research approaches and methods, and procedures and data analysis.

Online - Instructor Led
Effective Communications for Fire and EMS Success (M1000)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Learn the theories, skills and practices of effective verbal and written communication essential to managing organizational, operational and crisis situations. Also covered: barriers to communication.


None scheduled

6-day on-campus
Effective Communications for Fire and EMS Success (P1000)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Learn the theories, skills and practices of effective verbal and written communication essential to managing organizational, operational and crisis situations. Also covered: barriers to communication.


None scheduled

6-day on-campus
Effective Communications for Fire and EMS Success (R1000)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Learn the theories, skills and practices of effective verbal and written communication essential to managing organizational, operational and crisis situations. Also covered: barriers to communication.


None scheduled

2-day off-campus
Executive Skill Series: Exercising Leadership Ethically (F0523)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Learn how to recognize ethical dilemmas, apply a decision model to resolve those dilemmas, render ethical decisions, and defend the resulting decisions that were made to resolve these dilemmas.


6/1/2024 - 6/2/2024
in Plainfield, IN

+ 1 more

2-day on-campus
Executive Skill Series: Exercising Leadership Ethically (W0523)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Learn how to recognize ethical dilemmas, apply a decision model to resolve those dilemmas, render ethical decisions, and defend the resulting decisions that were made to resolve these dilemmas.


7/20/2024 - 7/21/2024
in Emmitsburg, MD

2-day off-campus
Executive Skills Series: Exercising Leadership Through Difficult Conversations (F0522)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Gain the skills for participating in difficult conversations by learning to effectively engage in those conversations as they relate to exercising leadership when addressing adaptive challenges.


5/21/2024 - 5/22/2024
in Jackson, MS

+ 3 more

2-day on-campus
Executive Skills Series: Exercising Leadership Through Difficult Conversations (W0522)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Gain the skills for participating in difficult conversations by learning to effectively engage in those conversations as they relate to exercising leadership when addressing adaptive challenges.


4/27/2024 - 4/28/2024
in Emmitsburg, MD

+ 2 more

2-day off-campus
Executive Skills Series: Exercising Leadership to Facilitate Adaptive Change (F0521)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Develop an understanding of skills associated with exercising leadership to resolve adaptive problems (those problems where the solution is either unknown or requires significant change, or both).


9/12/2024 - 9/13/2024
in Kahului, HI

2-day on-campus
Executive Skills Series: Exercising Leadership to Facilitate Adaptive Change (W0521)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Develop an understanding of skills associated with exercising leadership to resolve adaptive problems (those problems where the solution is either unknown or requires significant change, or both).


7/13/2024 - 7/14/2024
in Emmitsburg, MD

+ 1 more

2-day off-campus
Executive Skills Series: Exercising Leadership Within Communities (F0520)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Gain an understanding of a variety of ideas, peoples and cultures and the skills for effective leadership when confronting adaptive challenges presented by diverse internal and external communities.


6/11/2024 - 6/12/2024
in Tupelo, MS

+ 4 more

2-day on-campus
Executive Skills Series: Exercising Leadership Within Communities (W0520)

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development

Gain an understanding of a variety of ideas, peoples and cultures and the skills for effective leadership when confronting adaptive challenges presented by diverse internal and external communities.


6/29/2024 - 6/30/2024
in Emmitsburg, MD

+ 5 more