If not a member of Rappahanock Regional Criminal Justice Academy or Skyline please contact MTS to determine seating availability.

This course is designed to provide incumbent field training staff the tools they need to succeed! When we combine expanding training requirements with an increase in the number of new hires, we can quickly find our valuable field training staff frustrated and burned-out. Whether your agency uses the San Jose Field Training Officer (FTO) model or the Police Training Officer (PTO) model, it is critical to ensure our training is adaptive, learner-centric and most effective. We don’t just need to fill our minimal staffing, we need to ensure the basic competencies associated with core knowledge and application of basic skills is “dialed in.” Easy to say, harder to do, today’s trainers not only have to deal with the complexities of people, they often are training probates with little to no life experience.

The Advanced FTO workshop is designed specifically to address these challenges, and will assist incumbent field training personnel by further developing the critical communication, coaching and interpersonal skills needed in today’s complex training environments. Objectives and course activities emphasize learner-centric training environments. In addition to addressing strategies to deal with retention of large content, objectives will target the strategies to development the probates inter-personal communication, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Attendees will also identify how their communication tendencies differ from and sometimes conflict with others, while affording them the opportunity to enhance their ability perform more effectively as a field trainer, or training coordinator/manager.

Objectives:

• Create training environments that promote problem-based learning, critical-thinking and
  interpersonal-communication skills
• Discuss methods that instill confidence and accountability within all trainees
• Review effective adult learning strategies (learner-centric focus)
• Assess FTO – Trainee pre and debriefings
• Create learning opportunities through quality questions and thought-provoking discussions
• Use case studies to assess remedial training approaches
• List 12 characteristics of outstanding leaders
• Use a workplace profile to tailor delegation and coaching approaches
• Discuss methods for enhancing communication
• Recognize and learn methods to overcome trainee stress, avoid conflict, and use various methods of
  instruction
• Apply learning through simulated case study
• Discover emotional intelligence (EI)—what it is and how it applies to training
• Review a 5-step learning process
• Apply Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning