Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Course

ACE ID:

NEMI-0258

Organization's ID:

E0686

Organization:

National Emergency Training Center (EMI)

Location:

Classroom-based

Length:

4 Days

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate	3	emergency management

Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide an ideal setting for a diverse representation of senior emergency management executives to come together and explore contemporary and emerging 21st century challenges and to hone strategic leadership and critical thinking for senior executives involved with multi-jurisdictional, national, and international homeland security and emergency management policy development and decision making responsibilities.

Learning Outcomes:

Analyze pre-course knowledge of Political and Influence Skills, Leadership and Collaboration, Social Intelligence, and Disaster Risk Management and Community Risk Ownership.
Validate the outcomes of basing decision-making on different types of models and simulations used by emergency managers.
Compare ideas for how emergency management executives can effectively use political and influence skills.
Imagine and investigate how influence can be used by emergency management executives to implement preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation programs.
Illustrate strategies emergency management executives can utilize to increase collaboration between different agencies before, during, and after disasters.
Assess theories of how social intelligence applies to emergency management.
Predict and analyze different ways that emergency managers can apply skills such as empathy to understand complex problems and evaluate the needs of disaster survivors.
Theorize how the Design Thinking process can be applied to emergencies by using social intelligence to understand all aspects of a situation.
Identify and analyze patterns to identify the common characteristics of emergency management leaders who collaborate effectively with others.
Interpret theories about risk management and the principles of how hazard identification, risk assessment, and risk mitigation apply to emergency managers at the national, state, local, and community level.
Theorize about the difference between accepting risk versus managing or mitigating a risk from a specific hazard as a responsibility of an emergency management executive.
Imagine and investigate how the concepts of the Tragedy of the Commons and Wicked Problems can be applied to disaster risk management and community risk ownership.
Collaborate in meaningful work and research by making considerations to the resolution of the problem or issue addressed in the team capstone project in relation to the knowledge and skills acquired in this course.
Illustrate understanding of course competencies by briefing a comprehensive update of capstone project topics and progress to course management team and other cohort members.
Deliberate and debate executive level issues in emergency management, policy and doctrine changes, and updates on current events.
Collaborate in a meaningful way to share information about current events in Emergency Management based on first-hand experiences of the participants in the class.