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.
Tag: Workplace Harassment Issues
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…
RITE Half-Day Classes for @Hamilton Township (Ohio)
Invite only classes for Hamilton Township
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.
Sweeping Misconduct under the Rug, won’t Brush it Away
Bad press is like a knock-out punch that sends everyone scrambling. Now the command staff works to defend possible misconduct allegations.
“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 TRAINERS Class @Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office (Florida)
Trainer’s Class by Invitation Only
Emotional Intelligence Inside the Olympic Mindset
Olympics show us THE best athletes in the world. What separates the gold medal winners from the silver and bronze, often comes down to emotional control.
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!
Attempted Suicide shook Officer to his Core
No one expects you to handle all the burdens that life may throw at you. Having your own Value Plan, can help you better know yourself, so that when the unexpected situation occurs, like the mental trauma sucker punch, you will better prepare to handle it.
RITE Professional Workplace and Emotional Response @Sarah Lawrence College
Private Class by INVITE
How Emotional Intelligence Can Increase Officer Street Survival
Times are changing, is an understatement. But if you know how to roll with it, your chance of surviving the street will increase dramatically.
Getting mental health counseling is not a sign of weakness but rather of strength. Street survival means taking care of your mental wellness…
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?
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…
Emotional Wellness Prevents Angry Block-out
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.
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.”
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).
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.
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…
