Improving officer accountability and agency culture is a constant challenge. It’s a delicate balance to reduce misconduct, and
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Mastering Emotional Intelligence: Handling Angry People in Policing
Emotional Intelligence (EI) must be taught to officers before Social Intelligence (SI), as an effective tool to be used on the street. This is the philosophy behind successful modern-day law enforcement training programs, including RITE Training.
Officer Mental Stress and the Triggers of Excessive Force
Officers don’t show up for their shift thinking, “Today I am going to use excessive use-of-force.” Everything that has been happening before the incident, is what triggers the final blow.
Beyond Tactics: Addressing Block-Out Syndrome in the Wake of Idaho
Officers can quickly descend the RITE Emotional Energy Ladder, leading to negative emotions and potentially escalating situations with severe consequences. The connection drawn between a lack of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and “Block-Out” is crucial.
5 Ways to Remove Bad Apples Inside an Agency
Bad apple toxic employees need fuel to spread their ‘fire of anger’, thereupon-influencing other employees to be angry and mad with them. It can be a wildfire inside the department if unchecked. It will sabotage the success of the agency and spread into the community.
Stuck inside a Hamster Wheel… Now what?
Once off the hamster wheel you see others spinning. Reflecting can help you break free from the hamster wheel and pursue a more balanced and intentional life.
RITE Full-Day Classes for @Stanislaus Co. Sheriff’s Office (California)
RITE Classes for all public service employees, include emotional and social intelligence skill-building lessons. RITE’s Unique Tools reinforce agency accountability across all departments that helps to promote a professional…
7 Points to Reducing Excessive Force
Every officer needs to watch this 15 minute TED Talk, as it is directed at Officers of every age, skin color, race, rank, and gender. We can either escalate the situation with use of force, or learn this Secret to de-escalate.
RITE Professional Workplace and Emotional Response @Gaston Co. Sheriff’s Off.
Private training for Gaston CSO
3 Steps to Eliminate Toxic People
Spending time with people who have a consistently pessimistic or complaining attitude, it’s likely that their negativity will rub off on you. .
“What I do today is very important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.”
As public safety professionals, we can have stressful moments, we can have bad days, and it’s common to witness traumatic calls. How we handle stress and move forward is the key to the ‘NEW DAY Thought Process’
RITE Mental Health and Officer Wellness TRAINERS CLASS (Orlando)
OPEN Registration for Trainers
How to Help the ‘Never Enough Officer’
He convinced several of us to leave our agency and go to a “better” one, where we could all make MORE money… What a HUGE mistake!
RITE Emotional Response 2-Day Train-the-TRAINER CLASS (Orlando)
Registration is OPEN
RITE Professional Workplace and Emotional Response @Sarah Lawrence College
Private Class by INVITE
How Negative Emotional Responses Alter Decisions
Have you ever witnessed a co-worker escalate a situation because they responded too quickly with heightened emotions? It happens every day in public service. The more you learn to control…
3 Ways Emotional Response Training Improves Officer Wellness
In Internal Affairs, we get asked questions we can’t answer. We remember the steak we ate last week, but can’t recall details of yesterday’s escalated incident… how is that possible?
RITE TRAINERS Class @Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office (Florida)
Trainer’s Class by Invitation Only
How Emotional Control Leads to Better Outcomes
Learning to de-escalate negative emotions in the moment take practice. Like an athlete at the free-throw line (in Basketball), take a breath, give yourself…
Take back your time to Improve Mental Wellness
It’s time that ‘YOU’ own your time at work to help improve yourself, and your agency. What this means is not wasting it listening to toxic behavior from co-workers.
Improving Police Accountability with Culture Training and Tools
Since the 2020 George Floyd incident, there has been much discussion regarding Police accountability culture. It’s a delicate balance to reduce misconduct, while improving agency culture and officer wellness. New…
Professional Workplace Culture and Emotional Intelligence for LEADERS (FEBRUARY)
Private agency training – Contact
Officer Mental Wellness Training and Tools for LEMHWA – Awarded Agencies
RITE Training and Tools meet the goals of the 2017 Act, and we support the Department of Justice and the Administration’s commitment to improving mental health for all law enforcement. RITE is firmly committed to supporting the mental health of those who serve our communities so that they can best fulfill their duties to protect the public.
