Command Leadership & Management Course
Wed, Mar 13
|Newington
Dates: March 13-15, 2024 Times: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Location: Newington Police Dept 71 Fox Point Rd. Newington, NH 03801


Time & Location
Mar 13, 2024, 9:00 AM – Mar 14, 2024, 4:00 PM
Newington, 71 Fox Point Rd, Newington, NH 03801, USA
About the event
Command Leadership & Management Course
The course that will provide the student with a fundamental understanding of how leadership foundations and principles impact management and supervision. This course will greatly assist command level officers with the completion of certain managerial duties. Students will learn how to understand and maintain a police budget, understand how to effectively utilize strategic plans, and students will understand organizational leadership and how it applies to their respective agencies. This course utilizes breakout team exercises to help students develop a true understanding of approaches and practices.
Topics include:
- Leadership styles and how leadership & management differ but work together.
- Self-leadership and how it impacts overall leadership.
- How to truly motivate employees
- Organizational leadership (leading, influencing & inspiring)
- Police budgets (forecasting, proposals, presentations, approval process)
- Strategic planning (SWOT analysis, implementation and follow through
What students are saying about the course:
- “Great instructors.”
- “They have the knowledge and experience to share this important information!”
- “This class is going to help me in my new command role"
ABOUT GSPCC
Granite State Police Career Counseling (GSPCC) provides progressive and comprehensive law enforcement training through collaborative learning. GSPCC's instructors are seasoned classroom professionals with law enforcement backgrounds who are formally educated in their respective teaching and training fields.
About the Instructors:
Chris Gandia, Capt. (RET) Capt. Gandia retired from Londonderry, NH PD with 25+ years of law enforcement experience. He is a Sr. research Associate for the Institute for Intergovernmental Research. He is an IADLEST Nationally Certified instructor. Kevin DiNapoli – Chief DiNapoli of Wenham PD, retired from Hudson, NH PD, as a Capt. In 2015. He is a certified Polygraph Examiner and Negotiator. DiNapoli teaches leadership and interview courses. Dr. Ruben Quesada - Dr. Quesada was hired fulltime with the Mesa, Arizona Police Department in 1995. He retired as a Mesa PD Commander and now Chief of Swampscott, MA. Ruben possesses a Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership.
Cost: $385 per student