Course Intent
The intent of
L-481 Advanced Leadership for Command and General Staff is to produce Command and General Staff members who can fulfill the responsibilities of an effective staff officer or section chief within an IMT, contribute effectively to an IMT’s decision-making process, and perform as an effective organizational leader in their own functional area and as a member of the IMT.
This course should engage the course participants in leadership learning within the context of managing a large/complex incident. The course content includes both collective or team tasks and individual tasks.
- Collective tasks: functions accomplished by the Command and General Staff, maintaining a common operating picture, building and maintaining a constructive team culture, and projecting leader’s intent up, down, and across the chain of command.
- Individual tasks: demonstrating interpersonal and communication skills necessary to function as a productive member of a team, contributing positively to team decisions, contributing to the IMT’s common operating picture, working within the team culture, demonstrating effective staff ethos, and projecting effective command presence within their functional areas.
