Excellence in Training
Are you interested in:
§ Cutting edge training focused on teaching you how to harness the tremendous power of the subconscious mind to make permanent changes to limiting beliefs and images in order to enhance performance in every part of your life?
§ Simple and effective strategies for helping officers maximize their potential and enhance their performance in the gym, the combatives room, the firearms range, the classroom and on the street?
§ Proven techniques for conducting effective debriefings that will enhance the confidence and competence of your officers?
§ Strategies for the most effective use of videos in your training program?
§ Simple, but powerful communication techniques that can save the life of a family member, a fellow officer or someone else in a trauma situation?
§ Achieving tactical excellence through advanced mental preparation skills?
Excellence in Training has helped agencies:
§ Reduce remedial training hours with recruits and in-service officers.
§ Eliminate mental blocks that hinder success with firearms, written exams and scenario based training.
§ Reduce the attrition rate for recruit training programs.
§ Dramatically improve officers performance during stress inoculation or stress acclimation training.
§ Graduate confident and competent professionals from your training program.
§ Improve shooting abilities literally overnight using techniques covered in this program.
The challenge to training academies, training directors and trainers is to create an environment that is most conducive to learning in order to inspire excellence in their officers and their organizations. Excellence in Training is an innovative instructor development course drawing on a variety of disciplines from the fields of leadership and human performance. The focus of Excellence in Training is how to deliver training in a way that impacts learners at the deep subconscious level. In order to accomplish this training must be meaningful, challenging, rewarding and build on the strengths and talents the participants already have. Excellence in Training provides trainers with a number of simple, proven strategies for accomplishing this mission.
The focus of the course will be on developing these attributes in entry level officers. These entry level officers provide fertile soil where the seeds are planted in their subconscious that will continue to grow and develop over the course of a career. If the appropriate seeds are planted in the fertile soil of the recruit’s subconscious then the agency and community will reap a rich harvest over time.
This is a course in human dynamics, human interaction, and human performance and covers the following areas:
The Mind: Roles Responsibilities and Programming
This component forms the foundation of the program and will explain how the mind works to process, store and retrieve information. It provides an in-depth understanding of the roles of the conscious and subconscious mind. Often, training programs are focused at the level of the conscious mind, and yet in high stress events it is the subconscious mind that determines our response. This program provides participants with the tools to assist them in creating the most desirable subconscious mental programs.
Performance Enhancement Imagery
Performance Enhancement Imagery is referred to by many names including visualization, guided imagery, and crisis rehearsal and is a simple, yet effective method of harnessing the tremendous power of the mind by focusing and directing the imagination. Imagery can be done for you, one on one or for groups and will enhance all aspects of physical and mental performance in physical skills training, athletics or academics. Course participants will gain an in-depth understanding of what imagery is, how it works and why it is such a powerful performance enhancement tool. During this dynamic and interactive training you will learn simple, yet effective ways to incorporate imagery into your training and preparation:
Self Talk
The most important conversations we will ever have are with ourselves, about ourselves, in the privacy of our own mind. It is important that people become aware of their self-talk as it can be either positive and productive, or negative and destructive. Self talk helps to establish and reinforce programs in the subconscious mind. Once people become aware of their self-talk they can change it to ensure it is most desirable.
The Winning Mind
This dynamic presentation addresses the multi-faceted issue of winning. Winning for law enforcement professionals covers the entire spectrum of force response options from professional presence to the use of deadly force. Winning not only refers to the specific outcome of an event or confrontation but winning also refers to the attainment of personal excellence.
The Warrior Spirit
The Warrior Spirit resides within each and every one of us. The attributes explored during this presentation include courage, honour, integrity, strength of character, commitment, conviction, and humility. The use of case studies and video review will be used to bring the teaching points to li
The Power of Words
The emphasis throughout this course will be the use of positive based language to create expectations of success in ourselves and others. Much of the language used in our everyday communication to recruits, other officers and family members is negative based and may create disastrous programming at the subconscious level.
Stress Inoculation Training
Stress inoculation training goes bay many names including stress acclimation training, reality based training, scenario based training and confrontation simulation training. Regardless of the name the purpose behind the training is consistent – enhance the performance of the participants out in the field. Most agencies now realize the importance of this type of training as a component of a comprehensive training program. When conducted properly stress inoculation training is an extremely effective methods for ensuring the most desirable response from officers in the field by programming them to be calm, focused, in control and confident in situations. However, when conducted improperly the training can have the opposite effect and program officers to be fearful and either over react or under react in the field. This is what Ken Murray, the author of Training at the Speed of Life, refers to as unintended consequences of well intentioned training. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman addresses issues with stress inoculation training in his book On Combat and exhorts trainers to “never kill a warrior in training.” More recently the Force Science Research Center addressed this issue briefly in their newsletter:
"Among the popular training components FSRC researchers plan to examine are so-called "stress inoculation" exercises. "Many trainers believe this is helpful because it exposes officers to the 'realism' of the street,"
Lewinski observes. "But if this involves just heaping stress on trainees, it may not be as helpful as imagined. In fact, it can be counterproductive by instilling fear and anxiety.
"The idea is not to traumatize officers with stress but to skillfully guide them to develop the ability to focus on what's important to their survival during a stressful encounter. This, then, becomes a training method that enhances confidence and competence, so the officer emerges better prepared to defend his life and defeat a threatening adversary.
The Excellence in Training program has added a component on stress inoculation training to the program to address some of the critical issues and misconceptions about this type of training. This component will build on all the other elements of the course and provide guidelines for conducting stress inoculation training in the most desirable manner.
Debriefings: Feed-Forward vs. Feedback
Debriefings following training scenarios or actual calls on the street provide the greatest real time learning opportunities for officers. Too often however, debriefings are focused on providing ‘feed-back’ on what went wrong. While this is well intentioned it can often have the reverse effect to the intended outcome. Focusing on what went wrong often reinforces those behaviors and programs at the subconscious level. This component of the course is focused on providing ‘feed-forward’ during debriefings. Feed Forward is a term taken from the field of positive psychology and is focused on communicating in a manner that will create the greatest possibility for positive behavioral changes in the future. The keys to ‘feed-forward’ debriefings are language and imagery which will create and reinforce positive programs at the subconscious level.
Strengths Based Approach to Training
Trainers and supervisors often have a tendency to focus on students weaknesses. As a result we spend a great deal of time and energy working to correct these weaknesses. The strengths based approach to training acknowledges that we must address these areas however; they need not be the primary focus. People have a greater ability to learn when they feel good about themselves and have a positive self image. The strengths based approach challenges trainers to discover the strengths and talents that every individual brings with them to the training environment and build on those areas. This switch in focus will result in a more positive learning environment for the participants and enhance their overall performance during training as well as out in the field.
Effective use of video in training
Videos of actual events or recreations of actual events are an integral part of law enforcement training across North America. If used in the most desirable manner these videos can help officers learn from the experience of others and ensure a more desirable response when the officer is faced with a similar event in the future. Unfortunately many trainers are utilizing these videos in a manner which may have the opposite effect on some officers. This section of the course addresses the most desirable manner in which to utilize videos to ensure the most desirable out come.
Course length: 32 Hours (4 days 0800 to 1700 hours)
Cost: $495.00 per person