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How Emotional Anger and Rage lead to Rogue Police Calls
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!

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.

Social Media Posts can be Considered Police Misconduct
Social Media Conduct exposing bias’s behavior will be one of the biggest game-changers for police, the question is whether police executives are prepared to address it in 2020

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.

Key Policing Changes are improving Workplace Culture and LGBTQ Community Relations
“Ensuring that our officers will act in ways that promote the dignity and safety of LGBTQ individuals, whether they are victims, witnesses, suspects, arrestees, or other members of the public.”

Cities that take a Blind eye to Misconduct, are Sweeping issues under the Rug
Whether there was actual wrong-doing or misconduct, the public’s negative perception of the community, is now the reality . The department’s negative banter and scrutiny…

RITE Professional Workplace @City of Groveland: OCT 29-30, 2019 (Groveland, FL)
Workplace Culture – PRIVATE

Toxic Employees and Misconduct inside every Agency
Toxic employees know exactly how to push your buttons. They are always voicing their own negative opinions, talking about how bad it is at work and how it is, “NEVER they’re fault.”

Crab Bucket Mentality and Workplace Misconduct
The crabs pulling others down in the bucket are living a mediocre, ordinary existence. This is typically caused by implicit issues that were likely created a long time ago…

Community Policing is affected by Officer Implicit Bias and Implicit Issues
Do you have employees who show up to work angry? It may be because they are bringing into the work environment their own issues. Those same angry employees may be harboring Implicit Issues (those they are unaware …

Training Police Officers on Social Media in Plain View
Police walk a fine line every day, that’s a bit of a balancing act. They work to keep their community safe from violent criminals, while making sure that every one of their officers handle calls in a professional, and timely manor.

When Policing Value goes Up, Community Complaints go Down
Professional Workplace Culture Training includes how Emotional Intelligence effect everyone in the department. Including your officers, dispatchers, leaders and non-sworn in this training is key to creating cultural changes, as everyone represents the agency,

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.

Professional Workplace Culture is Reducing Police Misconduct
RITE’s Training Model has proven to help the public service professional in over 450 police agencies. RITE’s learning methodology has proven results, and has been able to help public safety reform.

PTSD Resiliency Training is Much Needed
“Finding great public service professionals are hard enough to find. Losing them to PTSD and Suicide needs to be (and can be) prevented.”

Use of Voice not Force | Fred Jones | TEDxEustis on RITE
What an honor to have our good friend and RITE Trainer, Sgt. Jones present at Tedx, in Feb 2019. Fred Jones, of Lake County Sheriff’s Office, gave an amazing Talk in Eustis, Florida, on how RITE’s Racial Intelligence Training can help many officers reduce Use of Force.

Earning Respect in the Workplace
Bullying, entitlement, and demeaning others can crush a department. Jokes and Pranks can be the stone that causes the glass house to break into a million pieces. Don’t be that person that brings your agency down.

7 Entitlement Personalities that Lack Emotional Intelligence
When someone has a sense of entitlement, they believe they deserve privileges, above and beyond others around them. And most can sense the arrogance they carry…

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 when no one walked out, …

Officers Learn to Police Themselves Back Up the RITE Ladder
With 5% of calls being life-threatening to the officer, and 95% being non-life threatening, officers need more tools to de-escalate using their mouths. RITE Training focuses on 95% of police calls.

Racial Intelligence Executive LEADERSHIP Course – OCT 26, 2016 (Orlando)
The Executive LEADERSHIP Course is a 6-hour training for command staff and executive leaders in the department. RITE has created an advanced cultural diversity class, combining (6) key modules of Emotional and Social Intelligence that improves lives on a professional as well as personal …