Leading Today - My Background from 1980 Onward



Welcome to my new BLOG focused on helping you develop skills of leading in your workplace, whether business, education or government.

 My background in teaching people about Leading Skills and Styles.

 In 1980 the late Walt Denero, founder of the J.W. Fanning Leadership Institute at the University of Georgia asked me to be a speaker for two Leadership Programs in Georgia.

 Leadership Rome
Leadership Cartersville

 I did a 3 hour session on how to develop creative thinking in your people as a Community Leader.

 8 years later I looked back and realized that Walt had begun a career for me in Leadership Development.

 By 1988 I was doing programs as one of 8 consultants (4 internal staff + 4 external consultants) for the UGA Institute for Government for the Management Development Division asked to present around the state individually or in pairs around Georgia doing their 3 Leadership Levels

 Level I General Supervision
Level II Teamwork in the Workplace
Level III Upper Management sessions 
(sessions I was asked to teach from 1985 to 1995: 
 Ethics, Power, Creative Thinking/Strategic Thinking)

 I became a regular external consultant that IG hired along with others as they had contracts around the state with cities and counties: north, east, south, west.

 One assignment the IG asked me to fill in for was to do one of the 3 courses in the GPSTC - Georgia Public Safety Training Center's Executive Development Program.  I ended up doing that for 17 out of 19 years until 2002.  That led to my being asked to become a faculty member of the newly created CSU & Police Chiefs Assn's COMMAND COLLEGE in 1995.  I taught the

 Leading & Teamwork in Today's Workplaces

 course from 1995 to 2010 for a total of 58 "special" week-long courses, generally 5 times a year for public safety offices: Police, Fire, Emergency, P&R, TSA, even had a few Homeland Security officers after 2001 and even a couple FBI agents among the 2500+ students. The first couple sessions were filled with Chiefs, some Sheriffs and Dept Heads from around Georgia.

 The program was eventually Directed by Dr. Archie Rainey, long time faculty member in Police Administration at Columbus State prior to it becoming Columbus State University.

 Beginning in 1984 I began serving as an external consultant for the brand new
Executive Development Division of the Institute for Business initial started by
Dr. Flewelyn, previous Dean of the Terry School of Business.

 next blog we begin with content to help you truly become a Creatively Productive Leader whether you are a 

 team leader
first time to long time supervisor
manager
department head

 Alan
Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP, DLA
alan@cre8ng.com
http://www.cre8ng.com/leading.htm

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