Block-out Syndrome is when all Emotional Intelligence leaves you brain, you can’t think clearly to make good decisions, and you commit some form of misconduct… (more often than not, excessive use of force). It is the career-ending moment that you cannot take back.
Tag: Emotional Intelligence

Professional Workplace and Human Diversity TRAINER JAN 9-10, 2024 (The Villages, FL)
Registration is OPEN soon

Ignored PTSD and Career Trauma leads to Officer Misconduct
Mental stress of the job can bring anyone to their knees. You glass goes from mostly full, to half-empty, and for some… glass EMPTY. Thoughts of, “I’m not okay creep in,” yet you don’t know why, and you don’t know how to get help.

3 Emotional Misconduct Lessons to Apply the Law of Attraction
The old saying holds true, “People don’t leave a department, they leave because of the people in the department.”

RITE Professional Workplace for Leaders in Agency – (Piedmont, CA)
Private leadership class

5 Ways Peer Support Improves Officer Well-being
Peer Support Group, Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT), Mental Health Advocates, and/or Chaplains, that support employees when they need it.
If you have just one employee that needs Peer Support, then everyone in your agency needs to read this. We have yet to work with an agency, that didn’t need to improve their officer well-being programs.

How Peer Support improves Officer Emotional Intelligence and Wellbeing
This typical response of ‘living the dream’ can be heard by workers inside all public service agencies (Law enforcement, Fire, corrections, 911 operators, Sworn, nonsworn, and civilian staff).

De-escalation Training Tools that prevent Officer Block-out
We all have hot buttons that make us angry. But in the moment when something triggers you to emotionally react, could be career-ending. Learn the steps to de-escalate yourself

Lack of Emotional Intelligence can trigger misconduct in Public Service
“What Were they Thinking?”
Chances are they were NOT thinking. When a person has low Emotional Intelligence, they tend to acted without adding the proper emotions (EI) into the equation, which helps make better decisions.

De-Escalation GRANT for Police and Public Service Training Centers
Take an agency-wide approach to de-escalation that includes emotional intelligence, empathy communication, implicit bias, and duty to intervene techniques training.

RITE 2-Day Train-the-Trainer @University of Texas Jun 7-8, 2023 @Austin, TX
This is by Invitation ONLY, a 2-Day Trainer’s Class @University of Texas – Austin, TX REGISTRATION: 2 Sessions are available to register for with a cap of 30. See information…

RITE 2-Day Train-the-Trainer @University of Texas Jun 5-6, 2023 @Austin, TX
This is by Invitation ONLY, a 2-Day Trainer’s Class @University of Texas – Austin, TX REGISTRATION: 2 Sessions are available to register for with a cap of 30. See information…

RITE Professional Workplace Leadership Training @UT Austin, TX
PRIVATE Leaders Class

Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) – GRANT
~ 30 Page RITE Overview ~ Who is Eligible? Got Questions?

Duty to Report Misconduct in Public Service
Public servants know who within their ranks are the unprofessional and often toxic employees. The oath to serve also means a ‘Duty-to-Report’ Misconduct.

5 Leadership Tips to Build a Culture of Respect
A culture of respect is when an agency uses effective methods for responding to episodes of disrespectful behavior while initiating the cultural changes needed to prevent such episodes from occurring.

Becoming a GRAY Rock helps to PIVOT away from Toxic behavior
To navigate around toxic co-workers the two methods that have been around for a long time are Gray Rocking and learning to PIVOT

Professional Workplace for TRAINERS @Wayne State University NOV. 2022 (Michigan)
RITE and Frontline Strong Together (FST-5) – November 8-9, 2022. (see details below) The Frontline Strong Together Project (FST-5), funded by the State of Michigan, aims to provide resources that…

Mentorship vs Misconduct – Balancing the Scales of Conduct for Public Service
Life is a constant act of finding balance. And depending on what stage of life your career is in, life will throw you curves that test you. The question is when you do get tested… do you seek out a mentor or do you create misconduct?

Respect for all people and all professions is Racial equity
Respect for all people and all professions is Racial equity

Professional Workplace for TRAINERS @Albany Police Dept. SEP 2022 (Oregon)
Albany TRAINERS Class – Private