Instructors Post-Test Every Officer is a Leader

Research indicates that the daily psychological stresses that police officers experience in their work put them at significantly higher risk than the general population for a host of long-term physical and mental health effects.

Traditional leadership development programs often fail to internalize new performance capabilities and verify a leader’s application to on-the-job settings.

Mindfulness reduces stress and helps law enforcement personnel to enhance job performance, personal health, long term resilience, and community relationships.

When instructors present the Core Facilitative Conditions it is important that they don’t make a big deal of them.

Understanding the importance of purpose and vision in others will help you recognize that the absence or fuzziness of the preferred future in yourself may be the forerunner of problems that may challenge the leader.

Values clarification and alignment can be at the heart of building a solid foundation to your career and your life, and at the heart of building a high performing team or organization.

Energy management is the preventive approach to managing stress.

Which of the following statements about stress management DOES NOT apply to law enforcement?

The broad mission of the book, Every Officer is a Leader (Anderson et al., 2012) is to provide leaders with opportunity to:

When the instructor is modelling facilitating a continuous improvement team it is appropriate to give trainees critical feedback when they fail to perform a skill:

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Transforming Leadership is different from other leadership theories because:

Transforming Leadership can be learned and applied by:

Instructors should stick to the detailed training outline:

The skill of centering:

When instructors model a skill in front of a class or individual, they would best do it with a real person who has a real concern:

The skill of grounding:

Learning credible leadership skills can provide you with:

Counseling and problem management skills are important to learn because:

To use the skill of responding effectively with accurate understanding requires careful observation of non-verbal cues.

Confrontive communication is to be avoided because it can make things worse.

To practice assertiveness skills effectively requires the use of a minimal number of communication skills.

Credible leadership leans towards all but ONE of the following general skill sets:

Self-disclosure is important because the way we earn trust in relationships is:

Conflict management involves:

If instructors who teach this course model the skills in all of their communcations with trainees they will be seen as:

Responding with understanding:

What skill involves the inner strength for self-control of emotions, judgments and pre-mature advice?

The ideal time to share your idea or definition of a problem with others is when they are stuck or when it is appropriate to add some alternative ways for them to consider a problem.

Problem-specification in law enforcement is not valued when trying to understand why employees demonstrate low performance or counter-productive workplace behaviors.

When the leader is genuine and authentic enough to share an experience that shows that the leader has true sympathy with the person’s experience-a sense of camaraderie or mutuality is unlikely to develop.

Immediacy is a versatile and widely applicable skill that enables leaders to deal with resolving issues before other problems can be addressed.

Which of the following statements are true concerning self-sharing in law enforcement?

Which of the following are true statements concerning confrontation?

Trainers utilizing the problem-solving skills (during training sessions) of facilitating problem ownership is important because:

When implementing action plans:

Advanced empathy helps others to:

The primary task of problem-managing leaders is:

Action plans may not get off the ground because:

A developmental change agent is: