Glendale - Front Line Leadership

The Arizona POST’s Front Line Leadership (formerly titled the Basic Leadership Academy or BLA) emphasizes contemporary leadership principles and concepts for public safety professionals who have recently;

• Been promoted to Sergeant or Lieutenant
• Are soon-to-be promoted into a front-line supervisory position (i.e., waiting list)
• Or assigned as Field Training Officer

Transitioning from a police officer to a police supervisor is a challenge. However, such a transition is made simpler with an education in the science of management coupled with the art of leadership. Front Line Leadership, or FLL, is designed to build industry knowledge and skills that enable attendees to successfully transition from a line-level employee into a leadership position in the public safety career. Content will introduce students to the fundamental concepts and skills of professionalism, organizational culture, and management, characteristics of effective teams, conflict resolution, motivation, systems thinking, problem-solving, and leadership. Possibly the most important and impactful aspect of this course involves the tools that will be provided to cause self-reflection in each attendee. Purposefully designed with self-examining reflective modules, a detailed workshop on personality profile assessment, and directed group discussions driven to challenge one's thought process, this training will allow each student to assess and improve their leadership behavior continuously.