Police Technology: Organizations

Leadership Seminars

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:49:08 GMT

All leadership seminars are unique and were developed by Dr. Andrew J. Harvey and Raymond E. Foster. The training can include PowerPoint presentations, course workbooks, film clips, and interactive discussion, all presented in a friendly and fun atmosphere conducive to learning. Each course is customized to the degree specified by the client. Classes can have as much or as little custom content as desired. Attendees will come away with practical skill and knowledge that can be immediately put to use within the organization.

Examples of training seminars include:

Action Leadership:

If a player doesn't realize it's his or her turn to play, the dealer will say, “Your action.”

This one-day course is designed to help current and aspiring leaders to fulfill their ultimate potential in the realm of leadership by realizing it’s always your action. The course is based on the book Leadership: Texas Hold em Style; and, covers the keys to good leadership through a variety of engaging and entertaining instructional methods.

Made Hand Career Development:

In poker, a made hand is one that does not need to improve to win. As an example, in draw poker, if you had two pairs and another player is drawing for a straight or a flush, you have a made hand because you win even if you don’t draw a card that improves your hand. Conversely, your opponent has a drawing hand, they must draw into a winning combination.

Made Hand Career Development is designed primarily for public sector professionals. The course teaches you how to develop your career to the fullest. Giving you the tools and resources to develop your career into a winning made hand. An organization benefits from this one-day seminar through developing their employees to view their career as journey for which they must be prepared.

More Information:

www.pokerleadership.com/leadership_seminar.html

Leadership Book is Hoffer Award Finalist

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:40:07 GMT

April 12, 2008 (San Dimas, CA) Leadership: Texas Hold ‘em Style was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. According to the Executive Editor of Writers Notes & Best New Writing, Christopher Klim, “While it did not win a category distinction this year, it fell within the top 10% of entrants to be considered for prizes. With respect to the competition, we consider this an honor of its own merit. Less than 50 books each year are dubbed with the title of “Eric Hoffer Award Finalist.”

About the Award

The Eric Hoffer Award honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing. The Hoffer Award honors freethinking writers and independent books of exceptional merit. The “Hoffer” honored books are chiefly from small, academic, and micro presses, including self-published offerings. The books and prose of the Hoffer Award are nominated by the people and judged by independent panels. Since its inception as the Writers Notes Award, the Hoffer Award has grown in prominence. Winners of the “Hoffer” are given prizes, honors, and worldwide media exposure, as well as being covered in the annual anthology, Best New Writing.

About the Leadership: Texas Hold ‘em Style

Using poker as analogy for leadership, Captain Andrew J. Harvey, CPD (ret.), Ed.D. and Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD (ret.), MPA found the right mix of practical experience and academic credentials to write a definitive book for leaders. Working together, Harvey and Foster have written Leadership: Texas Hold ‘em Style. Most often leaders find they are given a set of resources people, equipment, funds, experience and a mission. As Foster noted, "You're dealt a certain hand. How you play that hand as a leader determines your success."

About the Authors

Dr. Andrew J. Harvey served in law enforcement for 25 years, the last 12 as a captain with a Southern California police agency. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cal State Los Angeles, and an educational doctorate in the field of organizational leadership from Pepperdine University. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, the California POST Command College, the West Point Leadership Program, and is recognized in California as a master instructor.

Dr. Harvey is an experienced college educator, currently serving as a professor at the University of Phoenix, and as a faculty advisor at the Union Institute and University. He has been published numerous times in national and international publications. He is a recognized expert in leadership and career development, and has served as an instructor in command leadership at the Los Angeles Police Department Academy. He has appeared as a leadership authority on television and radio, including the internationally-broadcast Bloomberg Business Television Show, and the nationally syndicated Joey Reynolds Radio Show.

His first book, The Call to Lead: How Ordinary People Become Extraordinary Leaders, received national attention. The book shows the way for leaders toward ethical and competent leadership. Through his company, Andrew Harvey Seminars, he provides leadership training and consulting to individuals and organizations throughout the nation.

Raymond E. Foster was a sworn member of the Los Angeles Police Department for 24 years. He retired in 2003 at the rank of Lieutenant. He holds a bachelor’s from the Union Institute and University in Criminal Justice Management and a Master’s Degree in Public Financial Management from California State University, Fullerton. He has completed his doctoral course work in business research. Raymond is a graduate of the West Point Leadership program and has attended law enforcement, technology and leadership programs such as the National Institute for Justice, Technology Institute, Washington, DC.

Raymond is currently a part-time lecturer at California State University, Fullerton and the Union Institute and University. He has experience teaching upper division courses in law enforcement, public policy, technology and leadership. Raymond is an experienced author who has published numerous articles in a wide range of venues including magazines such as Government Technology, Mobile Government, Airborne Law Enforcement Magazine, and Police One. He has appeared on the History Channel and radio programs in the United States and Europe as subject matter expert in technological applications in law enforcement. His first book, “Police Technology (Prentice Hall, July 2004)” is used in over 100 colleges and universities nationwide.

Contact Information

www.pokerleadership.com

editor@police-writers.com

909.599.7530

Leadership

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:04:14 GMT

A recent reader review of Leadership: Texas Hold ‘em Style:

“Raymond Foster has demonstrated his knowledge of leadership very thoroughly in this book. Coming from the LAPD, he draws upon his experience as a mid-level manager by using humor and anecdotes so aspiring supervisors and managers can develop their individual skills. I am a retired police captin from Newark, NJ and wish I had the book during the promotional testing process. Now, I am using the book in my consulting practice--very relevant, very practical and an easy read!”

About the book

Using poker as analogy for leadership, Captain Andrew Harvey, CPD (ret.), Ed.D. and Lieutenant Raymond Foster, LAPD (ret.), MPA found the right mix of practical experience and academic credentials to write a definitive book for leaders. Working together, Harvey and Foster have written Leadership: Texas Hold em Style. Most often leaders find they are given a set of resources people, equipment, funds, experience and a mission. As Foster noted, "You're dealt a certain hand. How you play that hand as a leader determines your success."

More than a book: A fun and entertaining journey through leadership that includes an interactive website to supplement knowledge gained from the book.
Proven and Tested: Not an academic approach to leadership, but rather a road-tested guide that has been developed through 50-years of author experience.
High Impact: Through the use of perspective, reflection, and knowledge, provides information that turns leadership potential into leadership practice.
Ease of Application: Theory is reinforced with real-life experience, which results in accessible and practical tools leaders can put to use immediately.
High Road Approach: Personal character and ethical beliefs are woven into each leadership approach, so leaders do the right thing for the right reasons.
Uses Game of Poker: Rather than a dry approach that is all fact and no flavor, the game of poker is used as a lens through which to view leadership concepts.

More Information

www.pokerleadership.com

California School Honored for Public Service

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:17:36 GMT

By Samantha L. Quigley

American Forces Press Service

Feb. 1, 2007 – The Defense Department recognized a California high school at the Pentagon today for supporting one of its students and a program she undertook for the nation's servicemembers. Shauna Fleming, 17, a student at Orange Lutheran High School in Orange, Calif., is the founder of "A Million Thanks," a member organization of DoD's America Supports You program that highlights and facilitates support for the nation's men and women in uniform.

Dorrance Smith, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, presented the Office of the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Public Service Award to the high school's principal, Gregg Pinick, who accepted the award on the school's behalf.

"We're here to thank the students and the faculty and the staff of the Orange Lutheran High School for their dedication and support of our military men and women," Smith said. "Your high school has been a dedicated supporter of America Supports You.

"Thank you ... a million thanks - 2.6 million thanks - for all that you have done," he added.

A Million Thanks began as Fleming's effort to have a million messages of gratitude from Americans deliverd to deployed servicemembers. The program's success enabled her to raise the bar and strive for 2.6 million messages - one for every man and woman in the nation's active and reserve component forces.

Pinick has worked with Fleming and her school schedule so she could participate in special events involving A Million Thanks. Additionally, he has allowed her to use the school's mailroom to collect the letters, and even let the students participate in sorting, packing and delivering the letters she receives.

But he's modest about the attention the school has received for its support of Fleming's efforts.

"(The recognition) is very humbling ... just because of the fact that we're not laying our lives down every day," Pinick said. "To be able to say thank you to somebody is a pretty simple thing. We learn it when we're young. We tend to forget it a little bit when we're older.

"(Fleming) has provided an opportunity for so many people around the country to just to be able to say thank you," he added.

Pinick took home an official award citation and a medal acknowledging the school's honor.

Fleming, on hand for the award ceremony, said the school's participation was crucial in helping her reach her goal of collecting 2.6 million letters of support for the troops.

"I definitely could not have done it without my school," Fleming said. "They have been so helpful from the very beginning."

Article sponsored by criminal justice online leadership; and, police and military personnel who have authored books.

Asymmetrical Marketing

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:15:32 GMT

Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD (ret.), MPA and Chris Tinney are co-authoring “Asymmetrical Marketing: Globalizing Small Business.” This book on marketing and promotion for small business owners directly applies to authors. Now that you are writing, how do you get read? In essence, asymmetrical marketing is akin to asymmetric warfare. That is, when "two belligerents are mismatched in their military capabilities or methods of engagement such that the militarily disadvantaged power must press its special advantages or effectively exploit its enemy's particular weaknesses if they are to have any hope of prevailing." Like small business owners, most authors are disadvantaged in the global arena. However, many of our disadvantages can be turned to against the larger corporate world. Today, no matter how small your enterprise you can compete and win globally; and Raymond and Chris can show you how. Sign up for our newsletter to learn how to compete: Click Here.