Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Course

ACE ID:

NEMI-0248

Organization's ID:

EK0680

Organization:

National Emergency Training Center (EMI)

Location:

Classroom-based

Length:

4 Days

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Graduate	3	emergency management

Description

Objective:

The course objective is to enhance the knowledge base of cohort members to enable them to apply the executive emergency management core competencies from a leadership lens. Build and sustain a network of executive level emergency management leaders to ensure continual improvement of the field. Complete capstone projects to demonstrate the wealth of knowledge that is brought into the Executive Academy and the ways in which this knowledge can be leveraged to benefit the processes, practice and profession of emergency management.

Learning Outcomes:

Relate course objectives to units in the course schedule, as well as identify course materials and describe how they will be used during the course.
Develop community-based frameworks in anticipation of future disasters that encourage and support preventive and preparatory actions which build toward disaster-resistant and disaster resilient communities. Participants will also be able to describe sound risk management principles when assigning priorities and resources.
Apply critical thinking skills to recognize and verify both opportunities and problems, evaluate a wide range of data, identify and manage existing constraints and use reliable methodology to recommend a course of action in achieving the desired outcome
Think critically through a systems-thinking lens, make evidence-based decisions, lead through influence and collaboration, shape strategic vision and public policy, and utilize other high order executive leadership skills.
Describe and apply the principles that allow presenters to transform an audience of stakeholders and move them to action.
Understand and explain honoring of individuals and groups of people by promoting dignity, diversity, and the rights of others. Participants will also be able to recognize and respect the weight of their own actions as they work in communities and demonstrate the importance of truthfulness and accuracy of facts.
Apply the skills learned in previous course units in a variety of simulated organizational leadership challenges, and given different simulations, develop strategies and propose appropriate actions to address and resolve each leadership challenge.
Conceptualize and develop a capstone project that advances discussion or practice in emergency management at the strategy or policy level.
Demonstrate, through evaluation, an understanding of emergency management doctrine and the importance of strategic and policy level executive leadership for emergency management senior leaders. Participants will provide evaluative feedback on the course and instruction presented.