ER 122 - Emergency Management Leadership

Credit Hours: 3

Basic principles of leadership with an emergency management perspective. The skills necessary to lead and influence others in the demanding setting of emergency management by increasing their range of skills in a variety of interpersonal areas: conflict management, use of power group dynamics, leadership and influence. It also identifies problems and their root causes as an important step in the process to be able to determine the appropriate type of decision-making style. Using a suggested process of problem solving, the students apply creative solutions to both emergency and non-emergency situations in an emergency management situation. A performance-based approach is utilized that allows the students to apply what they have learned at the ECC Multi-Scenario Simulator.
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