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Adaptive Decision-making for Law Enforcement

Course Date(s)
Time(s)
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Course is
Open

The Adaptive Way

Adaptive Decision-making

For Law Enforcement

 

August 30, 2024 | 8:00AM-5:00PM | $219 

Erie County CPS Law Enforcement Training Academy 

6205 Main St, Williamsville, NY 14221 

Who should attend: 

Sworn officers who want to improve their emotion intelligence and decision-making skills. 

Description: 

The law enforcement environment can often be described as one that is a non-linear, open-loop system, that happens at light-speed. One where time can be either friend or foe. Operating in this environment creates stress which affects decision-making. Within this time-compressed environment officers often feel they need to act because they are there, rather than allowing the circumstances of a call determine the urgency to act. 

The question is how to provide a strategy for officer's to effectively control the stress response and to make lawful and ethical decisions? The answer is two-fold: with 1) Emotional Intelligence and 2) the use of thinking and mental models. 

Emotional Intelligence helps in reducing the stress caused by non-linear, uncertain events. Being able to regulate emotions allows officers to make better decisions. The use of thinking and mental models (OODA, Cynefin, Adaptive Decision-making model) assists the officer in their sense making and decision-making capabilities. Students are taught to make decisions based on urgency or the need to take an action and within the Constitutional framework of the 4th Amendment. These components are a great compliment to any de-escalation strategy. 

You will leave this class as a stronger by learning: 

✒ How Emotional Intelligence creates resilient, compassionate and respectful police officers. 

✒ The Adaptive Decision-making Model. 

✒ How mental models help or hinder the decision-making process. 

✒ The Cynefin Sensemaking Model. 

✒ How a spectrum strategy assists in managing time. 

✒ Understand the role bias plays in decision-making. 

REGISTER TODAY: Adaptive Decision-making for LE - August 30, 2024 - Williamsville, NY (regfox.com)

Register by July 30, 2024 and receive 10% off. Use coupon code EARLY. 

Instructor: 

Thomas Dworak is a retired Sergeant (31 years) from a suburban Chicago police department where he was the Field Training and Evaluation Program Coordinator and the Lead Defensive Tactics/Use of Force Instructor. Thom facilitates training throughout the country in Field Training, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership and is a core instructor for Below 100.