Providing Self-Preparedness for New Leaders

Learn how to get up to speed faster in a new leadership role by reviewing proven strategies and approaches that reduce your learning curve, avoid common mistakes, and build confidence in you and your team.
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Course Description

This course, designed and facilitated by experienced industry experts, provides proven strategies to understand the priorities of your new role, leverage your team, and develop effective processes to prepare for the next crisis. The skills you will learn will increase your confidence quickly, help you avoid common mistake of new leaders, understand how to identify, and leverage partner organizations and their capabilities to assist you, and adopt proven approaches to your decision-making processes that streamline your learning curve without spending years learning it.
Level: Intermediate
Number of Lessons: 12
Avg. Length: 22 min.
Time Required: 4 Hours min.
Course code: SC110

Meet Your Instructor

Mike Zappone

Instructor Title: VP Sales and Marketing at Tempest Energy, Former Eversource Energy, Manager Emergency Preparedness, retired from the electric sector after 30+ years

Instructor Bio: Mike has an extensive background in leadership based upon his long career in the private sector. He has served in multiple positions of leadership throughout his career both at the companies he worked for and across the electric industry. Mike’s award winning and nationally recognized expertise cuts across multiple disciplines including mutual assistance, business continuity, incident response, significant incident communications, various storm response position training.

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Course Modules

Introduction
Background
Course Modules
  • ​Introduction
  • ​Background
  • Myths
  • ​​Transitioning into Your New Role
  • ​Before An Event
  • ​During An Event
  • ​After An Event
  • ​Maintaining Progress
  • ​​...and More

Early registrations are encouraged. Seats fill up quickly!

Storm School is a high-level leadership preparation training program designed for emerging cross-sector leaders in disaster management.

This training course is part of the AHC's Storm School initiative, a high-level leadership preparation training program designed for emerging cross-sector leaders in disaster management and business continuity.

Sponsored by the AHC's newly formed Applied Operational Research Institute (ACHi), this overarching leadership training has been designed by experienced, nationally recognized operational leaders in the private sector to help new and emerging leaders in industry and government master the art of disaster management and business continuity based on real world experiences and practical perspectives gained only form 30+ years in the field.

FEMA deployed thousands of staff to respond to multiple large-scale disasters in 2017 and 2018.

"....focus groups cited issues with personnel who were deemed “qualified” but didn’t have the skills to effectively perform their jobs, which affected disaster assistance."

Course Learning Objectives

In this course, you will:

 ■ Understand how to navigate the anatomy of a crisis to effectively organize and maintain focus on your priorities and avoid wasting time

 ■ Learn how to quickly identify the critical inputs and outputs required of you and your team by your executives, and your internal and external stakeholders and how to communicate the results of your leadership and your team effectively

 ■ Understand the processes of efficiently transitioning your team into and out of crisis activation and its importance to your team’s morale and respect for your leadership  

 ■ Understand the myths and obstacles that prevent the success of new leaders in getting up to speed quickly and avoid preventable mistakes  

 ■ Learning strategies to earn the trust of your teams, mentors, and partners and quickly increase your credibility and effectiveness, and not waste time learning what others already know


Course Syllabus

Lesson 1: Introduction
Designed by experienced, nationally recognized operational leaders in the private sector to help new and emerging leaders in industry and government master the art of crisis management.

Lesson 2: Background
Preparing to Better Collaborate and Execute During Disasters and Background of Providing Self-Preparedness for New Leaders Dealing with a Crisis

Lesson 3: Myths
■ "If I can't get it done myself, I'll be viewed as inadequate”
■ “We have a plan, so we should be all set.”
■ Plus more…
Lesson 4: Transitioning into Your New Role
■ Transitioning into Your New Role
■ Org Charts for Black Sky periods
■ Trade associations, government, peer-to-peer groups, LinkedIn, etc..
■ Plus more...

Lesson 5: Before, During & After An Event
■ Understanding your role and the role of your team(s).
■ “Who Else Needs to Know”.
■ Organizations Last Exercise (Drill) 
■ What are we Expecting
■ Plus more...
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