Total Quality Leadership

Leelanau County Sheriff's Office
Leelanau County Sheriff's Office
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Troy Police Department
East Lansing Police Department
East Lansing Police Department

*MCOLES Approved Courses 

Total Quality Leadership*

The organizations that implemented Total Quality Management and/or ISO 2000 in the 90’s and stayed with it have reaped the rewards in: reduced costs, a new sense of direction, increased commitment / implementation, greater worker loyalty, streamlined procedures, increased public satisfaction and a more cooperative, productive work environment. Who wouldn’t want this? Below find MACNLOW’s version of these techniques in Total Quality Leadership for law enforcement, the courts and township, city, and county government. The total process takes from six months to one year to be put into place. Successful implementation of TQL hinges on careful preparation.

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Ann Arbor Police Department 2007

TQ I - Creating the Mission, the Vision and Values
First steps include:
     1. Taking stock of where your department is
     2. Learning the elements of TQL
     3. Setting the departmental vision, mission and goals
 
Participants TQ audit their workplace, learn the principles of TQ, examine the eight important TQ values and beliefs and how they apply to their department and develop their departmental mission, vision and values statements.

Faculty:  Dr. "Mac" McKinnon, MACNLOW CEO, Col. R.T. Davis (Ret.), former Director of the Michigan State Police and graduate of the 101st session of the FBI National Academy and 11th session of the FBI National Executive Institute.

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Wyoming Police Department


TQ II - Leading Organizational Change

Leading in Total Quality brings an exciting new way of doing community and law enforcement business. The leadership team now examines the way in which it leads. Does it request and model quality? Does it initiate “customer” feedback and utilize it for continuous improvement? Does it share power in order to build greater commitment and implementation? Does it encourage union commitment? Participants leave with ways to model quality, techniques for sharing professional power which build organizational power, trust and commitment, a unique under-standing of organizational culture and methods for minimizing resistance to change.

Faculty:  Dr. "Mac" McKinnon, MACNLOW CEO, Col. R.T. Davis (Ret.), former Director of the Michigan State Police and graduate of the 101st session of the FBI National Academy and 11th session of the FBI National Executive Institute.

TQ III - Delivering Exemplary Customer Service
Quality leaders put a premium on what their “customers”, both internal and external, need. External “customers” of city, county and state agencies require services that are knowledgeable, friendly, timely, dependable and professional. They want their problems resolved. They want assurance that someone listens and someone cares. Internal customers want the same thing from bosses and co-workers. Yet organizational research shows that nearly 80% of our internal problems arise from non-cooperative behavior and misuse of power. Participants will learn how to obtain valid external customer feedback and use it to drive continuous improvement and agency problem solving. They will gain an understanding of how meeting and exceeding customer needs, both internally and externally builds loyalty, trust, support and productivity in the workplace. This enhances their ability to work well with the public.

Faculty:  Inspector Dennis Mac Donell (MSP Ret.) and Trial Court Security Specialist with the Michigan Supreme Court, Director Debbie Crumbaugh, Senior Management Executive for the Bureau of Organizational Support and Services within the Department of Community Health and/or Dr. Murlene McKinnon, CEO of MACNLOW Associates

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Leelanau County Sheriff's Office


TQ IV - Problem Solving Teams
Problem Solving Teams (PSTs) drive the all important continuous improvement of Total Quality Leadership. PSTs yield the results - the success stories you seek in your attempts to build a quality organization. PSTs that are knowledgeable in particular areas of work, examine problems and service quality issues (for example, drug houses, high traffic death areas, unsolved crimes, public dissatisfaction with particular services of police or city, county or township government), arrive at solutions, take action and then assess the results. Participants gain problem solving skills, a practical understanding of how to function as a member of a high performance team, and the ability to cause continuous improvement. Organizations gain better service delivery and a more satisfied public.

Faculty:  Dr. "Mac" McKinnon, MACNLOW CEO and Lt. Col. Timothy Yungfer (MSP Ret.), a graduate of the 135th session of the FBI National Academy

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East Lansing Police Department


TQ V - Empowering Your Workforce
Middle management is strategic to the successful functioning of Total Quality Leadership. Middle managers, the sergeants, lieutenants, captains and their civilian equivalents learn to invite participation and use the minds and knowledge of their employees. In this way, managers increase an organization’s capacity for higher level decision making, greater productivity, enhanced employee morale and job satisfaction, and greater public responsiveness. Participants leave with: increased management skills, methods for empowering employees, ways to model performance behaviors for employees that encourage positive citizen response and the ability to increase organizational morale.

Faculty:  Inspector Dennis Mac Donell (MSP Ret.) and Trial Court Security Specialist with the Michigan Supreme Court

*MCOLES Approved Courses