In public service, when you escalate a situation with Emotional Rage onto a community member, a co-worker, or a person on a traffic stop, and you apply un-necessary excessive force… Game over!
Category: Quotes and Inspiration
Respect for all people and all professions is Racial equity
Respect for all people and all professions is Racial equity
EDI with Emotional Intelligence adds Value to Public Service
Officer Wellness, increases the health, well-being, and mindfulness, of everyone inside the organization. Emotional Intelligence (EI) helps build better EDI relationships inside the agency, and out.
Stop the Workplace Bully with a Duty to Intervene
Bullying comes in many shapes and forms. From physical abuse, to verbal abuse, and social exclusion to cyber bullying. These are all unacceptable.
Good, Bad, and Destructive Choices Made in Public Service
When it comes to working with the public, some choices come with a price. The simple concept of ‘learning to take a breath’ before making a poor choice, is a lesson everyone in public service needs to learn.
Officers Knowing and Believing the price of VALUE
What Value have you offered (or taken away from) the public service profession? Your VALUE becomes your life-story. How you make a difference for yourself, the profession, and within the community you serve becomes your story.
2020 Vision for Professional Workplace Culture in Policing
Just ONE toxic employee, can be costly to a public service agency. Civil lawsuits, inter-department obstruction, bad press, and distrust to the community for which your agency serves, are seen in the news daily.
Chicago area Police Officers take Racial Sensitivity Training
“The RITE training is great, and it goes beyond cultural competency training,” Phillips said. “The training also ensures the officers have good mental health.”
6 Signs a Bully is causing your Workplace Harassment Issues
Bullying may take many forms, from physical assault, verbal abuse, and social exclusion to cyber bullying.
Training Combats Workplace Harassment
Workplace harassment starts with a breakdown in communication and a lack of training. Harassment training should be reinforced every 4 years.
Officer Norman Connects with Community using Emotional Intelligence
Officer Norman isn’t your typical police officer. He inspires people in his community every day. Watch him in action and take his advice to heart
Life Lesson: School Resource Officer Mitch, Impacts Students beyond Belief
Student resource officer Mitch not only protects the teens at the school, but supports them and step in when they need some advice.
Police Chiefs in FL, IL, NV, and AZ get it RITE with Emotional & Social Training
This quote is the backbone of Emotional Intelligence and what we teach in all of our RITE Classes. If you can gain control of your emotions, you can control how you interact with others, especially under pressure.
Bias-Free Policing and the Missing Link
Speaking to a standing-room-only at the Ohio Police Chief’s conference, there were reactions and whispering when we opened with, “Most of your officers are lacking in Emotional Intelligence, and it’s not their fault!” and…
“Individual commitment to a group effort”… Lombardi quote on Football and Policing
This quote is about great police departments Vince Lombardi, one of the greatest football coaches of all time, lead many individuals into a successful group effort. His never give-up attitude finally landed him the head…
“Ask not what your country can do for you…” – JFK quote
“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” ~ JFK Imagine if every day, each and every one…
“We can always control what goes on inside.” Wayne Dyer quote
RIP Wayne Dyer! You were a peaceful inspiration of intelligence to so many. May your life’s work and dedication to helping others, continue on thru the lives you touched!
“The Police are the Public; the Public are the Police” Sir Robert Peel quote
“The Police are the Public; the Public are the Police. The Police are paid to give full time attention to duties that are incumbent upon every citizen in the interest…
Emotional Awareness will determine your success – John Gottman Quote
“In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional…
“People fail to get along because they fear each other” – Martin Luther King Quote
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated…
“When you know it’s Right” – Rosa Parks quote
“You must never be fearful about what you are doing, when it’s Right.” – Rosa Parks
“The battles that count…” Jesse Owens
“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.” – Jesse Owens
“We remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice…”
“While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let…
When we Explore, we Dream, we Discover – Mark Twain
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from…
