Crisis Team Leadership Development is a three-day course that teaches public and private sector leaders how to work in a team and make clear decisions under extreme conditions, and how to manage problems that develop when managing crisis events.

Attendees will be placed in realistic crisis situations within a structured learning environment. Early in the course, a crisis scenario will unfold in sequence with classroom-style lectures, discussions, and small-group interaction.

As the course progresses, scenario-related events of increasing complexity, threat, and pressure occur. The course culminates in an exercise designed to test participant knowledge, awareness, flexibility, leadership, decision making, and interpersonal skills under extreme pressure in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) environment.

Participants are challenged to use the new ideas, skills, and abilities in addition to their own knowledge and experience. In this way, CMC 4030: Crisis Team Leadership Development allows individuals to rehearse their real-life roles in realistic crisis situations, while at the same time identifying additional planning needs.

CMC 4030 uses a powerful inter-active approach to help leaders figure out what's important and what's not when making a decision. Participants will leave with clear, useful strategies and techniques for analyzing situations and making difficult decisions with limited time, information, and resources.

Course Audience 

The audience for this course is senior management personnel responsible for crisis management including those responsible for working in a corporate Crisis Management Center or a Emergency Operations Center as team members or team leaders as well as those who would like to prepare for a leadership position.

This is an essential course for senior management responsible for leading their organizations during a crisis and responsible for crisis management in their organization.

This workshop will use considerable amount of role playing, scenario development, team work and other group activities.  All students are expected to participate.

Upon successful completion of this course, attendees can earn a certificate in crisis team  leadership.

Course Outline 

Day 1: Creating and Fostering an Environment of Leadership in Crisis Management

• Essentials of crisis management
• Environmental problems (risk, stress, time, etc.)
• Team composition
• Team structure 

Day 2: Communication in Crisis Leadership

• Team communication
• The Emergency Operations Center

• Crisis triage

Day 3: The Power of Successful Crisis Leaders  

• Leadership and power
• Morale and motivation
• Ethics

Course Schedule

Wednesday-Friday, October 17-19, 2012 in Pinehurst, North Carolina at Pine Needles Resort.   

Stay for the weekend and enjoy a lovely weekend of golf in one of the most beautiful golf resorts in the US! 

Register Now !  CMC 4030:  Crisis Team Leadership Development 

The course fee of $2,195.00 USD includes all food and beverage as well as all course materials.  ICOR members save $219.50.

Instructor

Crisis Team Leadership Development was developed by JAMES R. HELTON, M.S., M.Div., M.P.H., Psy.D.  Dr. Helton is an Applied Psychologist specializing in organizational and individual behavior in high-stress and/or volatile environments.  

Jim brings over 30 years field experience at all levels of disaster and crisis management from the business sector to law enforcement to the military. He recently returned from serving both in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

His specialties include crisis leadership, business continuity, inter-agency coordination, and working with military, medical, criminal justice, and faith-based organizations.  

Jim currently directs the consulting consortium The Centers @ Pinehurst that serves for-profit and not-for-profit organizations and serves as a trainer and advisor for ICOR. 

Questions?  Contact Lynnda Nelson at 866-765-8321 or Lynnda@theicor.org