A critical analysis of Coaching and Mentoring theory and practice within the police environment

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POLI 6501 Coaching & Mentoring summary of module

This document is a summary of the key themes and topics covered in the module.  You can use it as a template for your assignment planning. Use it as a springboard for further reading and research.  The assignment question is reprinted at the end with some specific guidance.

Key themes and topics

Leadership

• What is leadership?  What is the difference between leadership & management?
• How can policing meet the leadership challenges ahead?    http://www.police-foundation.org.uk/uploads/catalogerfiles/police-leadership-roundtable-2/leadership_roundtable.pdf A critical analysis of Coaching and Mentoring theory and practice within the police environment
• PEEL: Police leadership 2017 A national overview.  A snapshot of police leadership https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/peel-police-leadership-2017.pdf
• What are the trends over time in leadership styles in the police service: moving away from autocracy to consultative and cooperative. 
• What makes great police leadership? https://whatworks.college.police.uk/Research/Documents/Great_Police_Leader_REA.pdf
• Are inspirational leaders a good thing? Leaders with the “larger than life” personalities or leaders who go back to the front line to show they are in touch and ‘still have it.’ 
• Examine police culture: what do these police colloquialisms: ‘9 o’clock jury’, ‘shiny arses’ ‘desk jockeys’ tell us about perceptions of leadership in the police?
• Do police leaders need to be sworn officers? What about direct entry at inspector or superintendent level?
• What are the 4 dimensions of police leadership: individual, operational, senior and organizational.  Plus strategic at senior ranks. Are these used in other occupations?
• Are all police ranks leaders?  How is this recognized, if at all?
• What are the methods & strategies for developing leadership in the police service?
• Police command tactics - Gold – Silver – Bronze.  Major incidents / critical incidents – case studies.

Coaching & mentoring

• What is coaching? https://leadership.college.police.uk/course/view.php?id=36
• Coaching and Mentoring | Factsheets | CIPD
• How is coaching used in the police service? *** See slide 9 of week 3 presentation.
• The A.C.H.I.E.V.E. Coaching Model    Dembkowski, S., Eldridge, F. and Hunter, I. (2006) The seven steps of effective executive coaching. London: Thorogood.
• What is mentoring? https://leadership.college.police.uk/course/view.php?id=36  & what is Mentoring? (td.org)
• How is mentoring used in the police service?  *** See slide 9 of week 3 presentation.
• What is the difference between coaching and mentoring?
• What should happen when one party says something which cannot remain confidential? Contracts, ethics and privacy.  Conflict of interests. Where the need to disclose outweighs confidentiality.
• Asking the right questions and making interventions   https://www.businessballs.com/coaching-and-mentoring/herons-six-categories-of-intervention/

Feedback & developing others

• What are the principles of feedback in a professional development situation?
• How to give feedback / How not to give feedback
• The experiential learning cycle – a model for reflection and debriefing  https://experientiallearninginstitute.org/resources/what-is-experiential-learning/
• What is the use of learning styles theories?  The Honey & Mumford questionnaire. How is this model useful in police learning situations such as the tutor-probationer relationship?
• How does the police service use the SMART model of action planning https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/smart-goals.htm 
• Assignment mark booster – showing your wider reading. An academic paper from Norway on reflective practice https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/204952384.pdf  
• An academic paper from Norway on reflective practice.  https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/204952384.pdf

Further reading

• Available online: Police Leadership Changing Landscapes     Ramshaw, P., Silvestri, M. and Simpson, M. (2019) Police Leadership  Changing Landscapes. 1st ed. 2019. Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-21469-2.
• Fleming, J. (2015) Police leadership: rising to the top. First edition. Oxford: OUP; Rogers, C. (2008) Leadership skills in policing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Assignment question:

This module will be assessed by way of student portfolio comprising two parts:

Part one: A critical analysis of Coaching and Mentoring theory and practice within the police environment (3000 words)

Include: Relevant theory, models, research and best practice guidelines in relation to coaching and mentoring within the work place.

Reference to specific police practices and applications

Support and guidance:  A critical analysis means an open-minded skeptical examination of the issues. What models work well and less so? Where has the police service succeeded in this field and not been good enough? 

Coaching & mentoring theory & practice simply means all the models and concepts covered in the module like ACHIEVE or the ELC. This document gives you a good starting list to work from.

Higher marks will be gained by showing a range of reading of recognized academic texts and research and linking them to the police service.