Take a look at this workbook my wife, Sabine, and I developed in the 1980s and recently updated.
It helped transform a police department (Madison, Wisc.) and is a way for you to not only evaluate your own leadership and the current practices of your department, but to also plan your own organizational transformation and improve all that you do.
There are questions after each section that will help you get on track to becoming a creative and learning organization!
I served over 20 years as the chief of police in Madison (WI), four years as chief of the Burnsville (MN) Police Department, and before that as a police officer in Edina (MN) and the City of Minneapolis. I hold graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota and Edgewood College in Madison. I have written many articles over my years as a police leader. After retiring from the police department, I answered a call to ministry, attended seminary, and was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church. After almost 30 years serving in and leading two Episcopal Churches in the Diocese of Milwaukee, I am "sort-of" in the process of retirement. Life is good.
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