ABSTRACT
This chapter captures behavioral science aspects crucial to various aspects of homeland security and critical traits that are conducive to success. Today, relationship building is an important skill in the workplace. It is necessary to effectively interact, communicate, manage, and lead others. This skill becomes even more critical in the homeland security arena, particularly within the information-sharing component of preparedness between the private and public sectors. Preparedness and resiliency require the private and public sectors to leverage information-sharing networks so that timely responses in any situation can be carried out. In protection and response efforts, responders need a timely ow of information, that is, the movement of information internally, externally, up, down, and between public and private sector partners. But in a crisis, information may not be relayed in a timely fashion because of chaos and inaccurate details.
