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SURVIVAL:
IT'S A STATE OF MIND

OBSERVATION

"What is the aim or purpose of strategy? To improve our ability to shape and adapt to unfolding circumstances, so that we (as individuals or as groups or as a culture or as a nation-state) can survive on our own terms."
--- John R. Boyd

“Technological advances alone do not constitute change. The most dramatic advances in military operations over history have been borne of ideas – ideas about warfighting, organization and doctrine. The Army’s most critical asset will not be technology; it will be critical thinking.”
--- National Security Report, March 2005

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." 
--- Albert Einstein

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts. But if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
--- Francis Bacon

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
--- Albert Einstein

To Schedule Call:
Dale Stewart 1-864-250-3607 / 1-828-458-2049
traininginfo@dalestewart.com

CRISIS DECISION-MAKING

A crisis marks a time of choices. How you react will have a profound effect on what happens next. Decision-making is a vitally important skill – it is the Essence of Command during crisis. The longer the decision is delayed, the more opportunities missed. Decision-making skills can be improved through training.

Instructional Modules:

  • Identify and avoid common “thinking traps.”
  • Ensure that correct issues are being identified and examined while under pressure, physical, and emotional duress.
  • Simplify complex decisions
  • Appreciate the role intuition plays – use and trust intuition during decision-making.
  • Recognize when a quick decision is better than striving for the “perfect solution.”
  • Practice decision-making under pressure through “free play exercises.”
  • Know what you know and know what you do not know.

 

This training is offered through the Critical Incident Management Institute at Greenville Technical College in Greenville, SC. Training may also be arranged at your location worldwide.

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SITUATIONAL SAFETY AWARENESS

Situational Awareness the ability to identify, process, and comprehend the critical elements of information about what is happening to you and your team with regards to the mission at hand. More simply, it’s knowing what is going on around you.

This training addresses the mechanisms that cause professionals to become less functional, make errors and place themselves and other team members at risk.

 

Instructional Modules:

  • Understand your own psychological/physiological thresholds.
  • Understand your own thinking and behaving.
  • Develop skills in instantaneous recovery of attention.
  • Learn how to lessen the effect of distracters.
  • Sleep and fatigue recovery
  • Physical coordination
  • Attention behavior
  • Improve short term memory and faster recall
  • Emotional stability
  • How to handle event stress

 

This training is offered through the Critical Incident Management Institute at Greenville Technical College in Greenville, SC. Training may also be arranged at your location worldwide.

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CRITICAL THINKING

By applying critical thinking to the tasks and challenges you face you will start to experience breakthroughs you never thought possible.

What you will learn:

  • Become familiar with different styles of thinking
  • Ask yourself “Big Picture” questions
  • Learn how to use critical thinking to challenge assumptions and expand perceptions about situations
  • Come to better conclusions and decisions more often
  • Influence and persuade others with critical thinking and clear language
  • Manage team idea exchange
  • Learn how to find out what you don’t know – and solve the real problem
  • Apply your improved critical thinking skills to day-to-day operations
  • Recognize what makes excellent critical thinking
  • Distinguish elements of the thinking process

 

This training is offered through the Critical Incident Management Institute at Greenville Technical College in Greenville, SC. Training may also be arranged at your location worldwide.

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CATASTROPHE PREPARATION AND PREVENTION
(For Law Enforcement Professionals Only)

“A catastrophe is any natural or manmade incident, including terrorism, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or destruction severely affecting the population, infrastructure, environment, economy, national morale, and/or government functions. A catastrophic event could result in sustained national impacts over a prolonged period of time, almost immediately exceeds resources normally available to State, local, tribal, and private-sector authorities in the impacted area; and significantly interrupts governmental operations and emergency services to such an extent that national security could be threatened.”

----- THE NATIONAL RESPONSE PLAN

The desired outcome of the course is to enhance the capacity of the United States to prevent or mitigate intentional, accidental, and natural catastrophe.

The course is designed to be an awareness-level experience for Law Enforcement Professionals. The goal is to enhance the ability of first responders to actively participate, lead, and manage their community’s all-hazards prevention and mitigation planning activities.

Instructional Modules:

  • Introduction to catastrophe
  • Recognize threats
  • Information sharing
  • Collaboration
  • Risk management
  • Deciding to intervene
  • Conclusion and post-test

 

This training is offered through the Critical Incident Management Institute at Greenville Technical College in Greenville, SC. Training may also be arranged at your location worldwide.