Leading in Times of Crisis

Course Overview

10-hour online course

Whether you are leading a police department or a for-profit organization, a specially trained group of people on the battlefield or in the boardroom, leaders are responsible for navigating the planned operational aspects of a team and a great number of unplanned issues, challenges, and crises that are more likely to arise than not—including natural disasters, failures in infrastructure, public health outbreaks, cybersecurity hacks, terrorist attacks, and a host of other risks that can quickly turn into emergencies. Are you prepared to lead effectively? Is your team ready to execute efficiently?

Being prepared for planned and unplanned work is the cornerstone of leadership effectiveness, team agility, and organizational resilience; and when it comes to crises, effective leadership is measured based on proper preparation, successful responses, and full recovery from extraordinary challenges. This course, Leading In Times Of Crisis, will help you and your team prepare, respond, and recover from an unexpected crisis.

This course blends theoretical models of leadership with real-world insights to explain how to effectively plan and implement crisis management strategies, processes, and practices that lead to exceptional outcomes for the leader, team, organization, and community of stakeholders. Topics covered include: the crisis management process; gathering and using facts and opinions; decision making; and tools that have been created from prior crises. Some of this work will illustrate “hard skills” of management, but most of the work will focus on the critical need of the “soft skills” of leadership.

Online Course Features

• Interactive web-based training.
• Centered on real-world application of leadership theories and concepts designed for the management- and executive-level professional.
• Self-paced training that includes active participation in on-screen and off-screen activities.

Print a certificate of completion, fill out an F6 and send to DPSST

$249 for non-OEDI members and $199 for OEDI Members