Using the CompStat process to develop leaders and promote positive leadership is likely to create a culture in which creative and cooperative problem solving are paramount, and organizational change can be achieved in order to enhance public services. In contributing to this end, the CompStat process teaches officers to collect, analyze, and map crime data and other essential police performance measures and hold police managers accountable for their performance as measured by these data. The pre-CompStat meeting is an innovation that has not yet taken hold, because too many executives prefer the public forum over the private one in appraising subordinates' performance. The pre-CompStat meeting is an individual performance interview that can be held whenever a chief executive believes he/she must meet with an individual commander to discuss business. The purpose of this meeting is to address individual shortcomings, so as to positively influence and motivate the person to improve work-related performance. The pre-CompStat meeting should be held weekly before the regular CompStat meeting. It should be conducted in private between the chief executive and the individual commander. The actual CompStat meeting should be a resource-sharing, problem solving exercise, with discussions designed to encourage participants to exchange ideas, share details about promising practice, praise subordinates, collectively develop plans, and promote an environment where new leaders can develop their skills. 30 notes