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Question:

React to one of the Top Ten Competences for professional Emergency Management (i.e. Leadership and Team Building) discussed by Wayne Blanchard and the three documents listing traits of Emergency Management leaders. Then, use at least three scholarly references to support your critics. (Basically, you are going to write at least 350 words about “quality of good leadership in emergency management in a graduate school standard).

Below are the Blanchard discussion of Leadership and Team-Building and the three documents of the traits.

Readings

Leadership and Team-Building

The necessity of good leadership is another obvious lesson to be tragically relearned yet once again in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Especially, but not just, in the immediate pre-impact and early response phases, leadership is needed – not just an ability to provide a command presence, but the demonstration of vision, compassion, flexibility, imagination, resolve and courage.4 Without leadership, bureaucratic organizations and their personnel will tend to stay within more or less business as usual bureaucratic systems and methods of operation. It takes a leader to break down these barriers to expeditiously move people and resources to where they are needed. Leadership is also needed in the hard-to-sell mitigation, reduction, prevention arena of emergency management – to seek to create an culture of disaster prevention and preparedness. Leadership means fighting for resources so that not only good risk assessments can be made, plans developed, people trained and systems exercised, but equipment, facilities, supplies can be procured which allow plans to be implemented. Without resources, even the best laid plans are but fairy dust.

Document One:

Outline of Core Competencies to Develop Successful 21st Century Hazard/Emergency Managers

1. Personal, Interpersonal and Political Skills, Traits and Values

a. Listening, Communicating (oral and written – superior level) and Presentation Skills

b. Networking, Facilitating, Partnering, Coalition-Building, Community Consultation

c. Negotiating, Mediation, and Conflict Resolution Skills

d. Representational, Marketing, Salesmanship Skills – Visible, Engaged, Effective

e. Bureaucratic, Organizational, Public Policy and Political skills

f. Committed, Dedicated, Enthusiastic, Reliable, Imaginative, Creative

g. Diverse Social/Cultural/Class/Special Needs/Disadvantaged Sensitivity and Activity

h. Leadership and Motivational Skills – walks the talk, compassionate, has integrity

i. Proactive, Progressive, Open to Change and New Ideas, Life-Long Learner

j. Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Decision Making

k. Flexibility, Adaptability and Improvisational Skills

l. Strategic (long term) thinking and planning, visionary, ability to anticipate

etc

Document Two:

Top Ten Things BWB Would Look For in 21st Century Professional Emergency Manager

1. Philosophy: Disaster Reduction through Building Disaster Resilient Communities

2. A People-Person – Personable with people-oriented skills, traits, and values e.g., communicating, networking, representational, customer service oriented

3. Politically Savvy – Organizational, Community, EM “System” – knows importance of partnerships, networking, inclusiveness, and flexibility

4. A Leader -- who walks the talk and demonstrates integrity and compassion.

5. A Professional, with Executive-Level Administrative and Management Skills

6. A Visionary -- Strategic, Big-Picture Thinker, Strategic Planning Ability

7. Motivated and Energetic – Positive attitude hard worker – can motivate others

8. Hazards Foundation and Legal, Ethical, Social, Economic, Ecological, Political Contexts

9. Technical Skills and Standards, e.g., computers, GIS, research, analysis, evaluation

10. Has Experience – And Learned From It – Successful at Improvisation

Document Three:

Expanded Outline of Competencies for Successful 21st Century Hazard/Emergency Managers

1. PERSONAL SKILLS, TRAITS, ABILITIES AND VALUES

1. Committed, Dedicated, Reliable, Hark-Working

2. Imaginative, Creative, flexible, can improvise

3. Enthusiastic

4. Proactive, Self-Starter, Displays Independent Initiative, Willing to Take Risks

5. Progressive, Open to Change, New Ideas and Research Findings, Flexible, Adaptable

6. Life-Long Learner

7. Problem Solving – knowing the rational thinking processes that assist problem-solving

8. Demonstrated Decision Making Skills, Decisive

9. Ethical, Responsible, Tolerant, Demonstrates Integrity, Promotes Diversity, Inclusive

10. Compassionate

11. Can Apply Lessons Learned

12. Ability to Respond Appropriately to Criticism, Advise, Guidance, Direction

13. Can Function Under Stressful Conditions

14. Intellectual Versatility – ability to recognize, explore and use a broad range of ideas and practices – thinking logically and creatively without undue influence from personal biases

15. Demonstrates Sound Judgment and Discretion

16. Can Obtain, Evaluate, Analyze, Synthesize, Organize Data and Information

17. Customer Service Oriented

RESPONSE FORMAT

Spread your response to:

Discussion question: 'React' to Blanchard's Top Ten, specifically item #2 and the three documents listing traits of EM leaders.

Context:…

Analysis:………….. and

Summary:………

References