Today's courses

I'm the leader of a unit this morning that will have some dire emergency thrown at us, and I'll have to make decisions based on a vague set of facts, only to be critiqued on my leadership after the exercise. We'll have the opporunity to review the situation over the next several days to determine whether the gut decision was the right one (and I feel certain that an entirely new set of facts will be given after the decision is made, but that's how it works in real life as well). It's an interesting study on preparation and the ability to work with agencies and people in a variety of levels of the public and private sector. Other classes today include case studies on state and local programs that've both failed and succeeded and a discussion on representation.