IS-917: Active Shooter Leadership

This course is designed for organizational leaders to lead whole community efforts to prevent, defeat, and recover from an active-shooter / targeted violence event to enhance a community's level of preparedness.

Prevention: Understand how one may lead to reduce the chance of an employee committing an act of violence in the workplace.

• Identify the terminology used to define the problem of active shooter and mass shooting events.

• Describe opportunities to create an increased sense of belonging among employees.

• Describe actions organizational leaders may take to create a more effective and supportive workplace culture.

• Recognize options as a leader to support employees experiencing depression and anxiety.

• Discuss how to lead through conflict while ensuring accountability and dignity for employees.

• Describe options for how leaders may respond to an employee engaging in threatening behavior.

Preparation: Understand how an organizational leader may plan for, prepare, and lead others to respond to an active-shooter incident.

• Describe how to develop or improve an emergency action plan for responding to a potential active-shooter situation.

• Describe the role of leaders in rehearsing active shooter emergency action plans.

• Identify the role of leaders in the aftermath of an active-shooter incident.