U.S. Embassy's Legal Advisor Holds
Leadership and Management Seminar
During the week of January 16th, the Embassy’s DOJ Resident
Legal Advisor held a series of "Leadership and Management"
seminars in Tbilisi, Kutaisi, and Batumi for law enforcement
supervisors. The courses were taught by Pete Peterman, the acting
United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, and
by Captain John Warnecke, United States Navy, the former Commanding
Officer of the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, Puerto Rico, and
currently the Department Head of Naval Science at the University
of Virginia.
USA Peterman detailed how federal law enforcement is structured
and how its offices are managed. Captain Warnecke stressed to
the audiences that leadership is an influence relationship between
leaders and followers. Leaders must rely on skill and personal
qualities to earn trust and confidence. Management, rather,
entails the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling of
organizational resources. Whereas a leader will find the forest,
the managers have to ensure that all the trees are properly
logged and hauled away.
Prosecutor General Zurab Adeishvili, who attended the Tbilisi
seminar, complimented the two experts for forcing the audience
to think about leadership theories and management systems in
such a logical manner. Although many of the officials had reflect
these theories intuitively in their actions, none had ever had
such materials presented to them in this scholarly, yet common
sense fashion. |
