New Zealand Emergency Management Leadership Development Programme
Find out about the New Zealand Emergency Management Leadership Development Programme (NZ EMLDP).
The Programme
The New Zealand Emergency Management Leadership Development Programme (NZ EMLDP) was NEMA’s comprehensive leadership development programme for emerging leaders within New Zealand’s Emergency Management (EM) community, growing capacity and resilience in New Zealand’s response to emergencies and adverse events.
The EMLDP was a 12-month Programme that was made up of four key elements:
- Pre-work and prerequisites
- A 10-day Residential Course
- Mentoring from an EMAT Team Member over six months
- Facilitated coaching on a ‘Return Day’
So far, NZ EMLDP has been run once with 28 participants. It was modelled on the current EMAT Course. It focused heavily on inter-personal, intra-personal and leadership development. The course was supported with pre- and post-Hogan’s 360 psychological assessments that enable an individual to identify areas of strength, and areas where personal and professional development could take place.
NZ EMLDP aimed to empower Emergency Management practitioners to make positive change in their home organisations, while simultaneously lifting the capability of the wider sector..
Once participants completed the programme, the top performing participants were recommended to tailor their practical skills and knowledge with the goal of joining the Emergency Management Assistance Team (EMAT). Others could expect to be the first to be called as surge staff in either local emergencies as a representative of their home agency. Or to support as deployed surge staff in other regions. This could include working in Emergency Coordination Centres (ECC) or Deployable Command Centres (DCC). Or support in the National Coordination Centre (NCC), National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC) or the Alternative National Crisis Management Centre (Alt NCMC).
Participation
For this pilot course NEMA identified partner agencies and key stakeholders who were invited to submit submissions for their nominees to attend. This may change for future iterations of EMLDP where potential participants would submit manager supported applications which would then go through an application and selection process.
NZ EMLDP 2022
The NZ EMLDP 2022 residential course was held at Camp Wainui, Wainuiomata, Wellington, over the dates Monday 22 August – Thursday 1 September 2022. Over the following six months the NZ EMLDP 2022 cadre conducted mentoring and coaching activities which included three one-to-one mentoring sessions, three syndicate coaching sessions, and a cadre return activity to evaluate learning and capability.