Summary Of Edward Mills Leadership

BACKGROUND

The person that I have chosen for my leadership case study is the current Sheriff of Floyd County, Sheriff Darrell Mills. Sheriff Mills has been my employer since 2007 when I was hired as a Corrections Officer with the department and helped me forge myself into the leader I am today. Darrell W. Mills was born in Jamestown, Kentucky and moved with his family to New Albany, Indiana when he was a young child. He attended and graduated from New Albany High School in 1973, while he did not attend college, he did start working for the CSX railroad company in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1975 he was hired at the age of 20 as a dispatcher for the Georgetown Police Department. One year later in 1976, he was hired as a reserve officer for the

While some programs he has developed have been widely accepted and effective, others have failed to meet the mark of success. One example of this experimentation and ability to learn from the experience came when a former jail administrator had provided and idea that court officers should be on rotation in each court and interchangeable schedules. The theory of the idea was good, but the implantation was poor. There was no communication to the judges that their normal court officers would be changing and little input from the supervisor on how the new scheduling would work for the rotation. Sheriff Mills was involved in the decision to complete this transition to the rotating court officers program, but quickly receive negative feedback from the direct supervision and court staff who had become accustom to a certain officer and trained them in the way they wanted to conduct court proceedings. Sheriff Mills actively listened to the input, made adjustments and realized that why officers needed to be cross trained in the different courtrooms judges. While this project was risk and had both positive and negative results, Sheriff Mills had the ability to learn from the mistakes and examine what was learned and implement the changes. In showing this, it causes a trickledown effect that showed the staff that experimentation is a learning process and that he

He believes that when someone makes a decision that they should evaluate the circumstances, make the decision, and stand behind it. In speaking with Sheriff Mills, this was a theory that was instilled in him as young officer and he expects it from his staff. In my personal experience with this theory, a specific example would be a decision that I had made on an emergency operations team activation that I made. During my time the emergency operations commander, I was tasked with making the determination on whether the team would be activated on information provided by the on duty supervisor. During this time, I was posed with a situation with a disorderly inmate that needed my decision on if we would active the team for response. I made the decision based on the information provided from the supervisor to send a partial team response to assist. The incident quickly escalated when officers responded and I was questioned on my partial response method. Sheriff Mills gave me the opportunity to explain that I relied on the supervisor information and made the decision based on what I knew. He communicated to me that my decision was appropriate based on what I knew, but also educated me on taking that extra minute in future conversations with supervisors to get better information. With Sheriff Mills actions in the way he handled the issue with