Training Methods & More
Webinars
NTOA - National Tactical Officers Association
Title: "Tactical Excellence: On Purpose, By Design"
Date: October 8th, 2025
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This one-hour webinar is for all Tactical Officers focusing on three main training concepts that when applied, are evidenced to increase skill and decision-making on the street. The three main concepts are:
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Spaced Practice – Doing, “A Little, A Lot”. Even 10 minutes a day is enough.
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Law of Specificity – Getting more transfer to the real world from every moment spent training.
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The ‘Learning Zone’ – How pressure must be intelligently manipulated and how errors need to be viewed.
9 Webinar Series
FMIT - Florida Municipal
Insurance Trust
Webinar 1 of 9
Title: "The Illusion of Learning"
Date: October 30th, 2025
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FMIT - Florida Municipal
Insurance Trust
Webinar 2 of 9
Title: "Attentional Control & Situational Awareness"
Date: November 20th, 2025
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FMIT - Florida Municipal
Insurance Trust
Webinar 3 of 9
Title: "Predicting & Preventing Errors in Policing"
Date: January 22nd, 2026
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FMIT - Florida Municipal
Insurance Trust
Webinar 4 of 9
Title: "The Pitfalls of ROTE Training in Policing"
Date: April, 2026
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What is the "Illusion of Learning"? How does understanding it mean a Fundamental Shift in how we design and deliver training? Concepts presented include: Performance vs Learning; 2 measures learning has occurred - Retention & Transfer; Why is Transfer the only measure police should be concerned with? Closed vs Open Environments; Why context is so vitally important. Decision-making & Skills need to be trained at the same time.
Quadrants of Attention are covered as a model to train officers to have an awareness of their attention, what it is directed toward and how to filter a situation to focus on "Task-Relevant Information".
The concept of Top-Down Attentional control is presented as the foundation of expert performance and trainers are presented with actionable tools like "attentional Audits" and other cues to develop in their people to increase performance.
The concept of adding 'Pressure' to individuals in training is discussed and presented is the concept that the only reason to add pressure is to practice the two tools to overcome it (Attentional Control or re-direction to Task-Relevant Info and Breathing).
This webinar covers the prediction & prevention of error by police officers. Critical errors basically breakdown into two categories, Execution and Sense-making. Sense-making errors have two categories as well and each is explained.
How to identify which of these three categories the error originates in is described and the crucial understanding that applying the wrong fix to one of these errors can actually make the problem worse. The use of attention, perception, meaning and how to shape a learner to make more accurate predictions is all covered in this webinar.
The key concept here is how to identify these errors and how to address them before they become an issue.
What is 'ROTE' training?
Is it detrimental to officer performance on the street?
How can we shift from ROTE to training design and delivery that improves officer skill & decisions in the real world?
This webinar will present through a discussion and video examples, what ROTE is. The reason ROTE can be very detrimental to our officer's performance and most importantly what we can immediately do to improve any ROTE training we are currently offering.
FMIT - Florida Municipal
Insurance Trust
Webinar 5 of 9
Title: "Split Second Decision-Training"
Date: May, 2026
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Webinar 5 of 9 set series. This webinar dives into how to train decision-making that occurs in less than 2.0 seconds. This is a very critical period due to the speed of assault, as officers do not have enough time to engage in decision-making like OODA Loop for example.
This, less than 2.0 sec period was described in detail in webinar 3. Now that the foundation of knowledge from the other webinars is set we can look into training like "Hood Drills". I will explain why I am not a fan of 'hood drills', due to how they are conducted and give my recommendations for both training design and delivery that will ensure learning that sticks and emerges on the street.
FMIT - Florida Municipal
Insurance Trust
Webinar 6 of 9
Title: "Coaching, Feedback & Group Training"
Date: June, 2026
To be released May, 2026.