7How do you know if you're ready to promote? And why should you? The Survival Guide for Law Enforcement Promotional Preparation provides personalization on how to assess your readiness and develop a plan to survive the preparation process. Retired Chief Redick has spent over 29 years serving in law enforcement and spent the last 15 years involved in promotional preparation working to identify and create study approaches and workshop environments that effectively help to manage the copious amounts of information within an organization that generate from policy, procedures and legal codes. Within the chapters, she will share strategies for time management; how to build your confidence and competence; why it's important to have mentors; how to cultivate skills to be a continual learner, and how to develop the skill of leveraging your life, personal and professional experience to expand your capacity for promotion. With the demands of work-life balance, the "Survival Guide" to Law Enforcement Promotional Preparation will assist in identifying support resources; develop your own self-paced training; and build collaborative learning cultures. As added content, she includes samples of how to create a Career Development Plan, a 10 week study plan, oral interview workshop, and promotional preparation study workshop. Her training and instructional background is inclusive of many areas of expertise: leadership and promotional development, cultural diversity, procedural justice, implicit bias, and Franklin Covey leadership coursework. She is a certified California State Personnel BoardChairperson and has participated both as a chairperson and agency representative on promotional examination oral interview panels and in examination development. Additionally, she has cultivated partnerships with community-based organizations to enhance trust creating pathways for careers into law enforcement through partnered co-horts. She is a past member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Human and Civil Rights Committee, Past President of the NOBLE Central Valley California Chapter, and a member of the American Association of University of Women. She is a graduate of California POST Command College with course work in Enhanced Leadership; Futures Forecasting and Economic Issues; Politics of Change; and Technological and Environmental Issues. She holds a Master's of Science degree in Law Enforcement and Public Safety Leadership from the University of San Diego. Currently, she is an adjunct faculty member at University of San Diego for their online Masters of Science program and also at San Joaquin Delta College for their POST Regional Academy.You will find this guide an excellent resource to create your framework for promotional preparation and give you tools to navigate the personal balance of priorities. Retired Chief Redick has a deep level of passion and commitment to enhancing the leadership quotient in the law enforcement industry. The "Survival Guide" to Law Enforcement Promotional Preparation is one of the best investments you can make in yourself.