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Making Effective Executive Decisions in High-Stakes Situations

This professional development program focuses on empowering leaders—mayors, city managers, and executives—to make informed decisions in unique and high-stakes situations. Participants will learn to navigate incomplete information, emergency scenarios, and the nuances of public and media relations. The program emphasizes the integration of education and training to enhance practical skills, cognitive abilities, and ethical leadership. By embracing both elements, leaders can ensure that their decisions are well-founded and impactful, promoting progressive growth within their communities.

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Making Effective Executive Decisions in High-Stakes Situations

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  1. I C H I E F S Professional Development Committee

  2. Making Good Decisions… A t A l l L e v e l s • Quickly • Unique, High Stakes Situations • Incomplete Information • Emergency Scene & Otherwise

  3. Executive Decisions • Non-technical Arena • Mayors & City Managers • Public • Media

  4. Professional Development • Planned • Progressive • Life-long • Includes: • Education • Training • Self-development • Experience

  5. Professional Development • NOT…Training OR Education • BUT…Training AND Education

  6. Comparisons TRAINING EDUCATION • What to do • Anchored in past • Job skills • Practical skills • Application • Specific outcomes • Known What to be Geared to future Life skills Cognitive skills Theory General outcomes Unknown

  7. Inclusion of Both Elements • Accept Areas of Overlap • Do Not Universally Equate Them • Do Not Lose Essential Values of Each Element

  8. Philosophy • Education without training is inert • Training without education is transient

  9. Philosophy It is education that makes training stick. - Art Cooper, M.D.

  10. Philosophy Education is learning what you did not know that you did not know. - George Boas

  11. Philosophy What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. - Joseph Addison

  12. Philosophy Education is not about learning facts. For that, you do not need college. The value of education is in training the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks. - Albert Einstein

  13. Philosophy Education is that which remains after one has forgotten everything that was learned in school. - Albert Einstein

  14. Our Need All the Diverse Elements • Technical Skills • Training • Certification • Managerial Skills • Analysis • Planning • Problem Solving • Communications (especially listening!) • Self-development • Ethics • Vision • Leadership • Experience • Roles • Cultures • Individuals • Groups

  15. Our Message… • Our Peers • Set Expectations • Training & Educational “Outcomes” • Our Delivery System • Avoid Universalism • Protect Integrity of Process Embrace the Diversity of Development!

  16. Wild Card! Moving to All Risk Management

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