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Who is the tutorial for?

How does the tutorial work?

Promise of the tutorial

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Leadership
Communication Skills
For Law Enforcement
Professionals

A must for anyone in law
enforcement.

A free, highly interactive,* on-line tutorial. Free follow-up coaching for specific problems.

*dozens of in-depth message-board conversations with the tutorial coach.


 


about

About the tutorial:

The tutorial is designed to accelerate the communication mastery process. It will empower you in producing the results you say you want for yourself and others.

The tutorial presents a topic for you to read. You read the topic and post your feedback/comments about it on a password-protected tutorial message board. The tutorial coach posts feedback about your post and provides personal communication skills coaching.

What happens is:

Without having to memorize anything, without having to change or be different, or say things differently, you will find yourself automatically communicating and relating effectively more often thereafter, for life—such is the power of communication.

Note from the Tutorial Coach

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note

Note from the Tutorial Coach:

No matter your knowledge, understandings or proficiencies, I can state with certainty that if you complete the tutorial you will have a transformed experience of self and of communication. That is to say, it is virtually impossible for you to complete the tutorial without it effecting you and yours in a profound and positive way.

As a former Navy submariner and Navy UDT (now called SEALs) member, and as a retired US Army Infantry Airborne Officer, I assure you the tutorial is on the cutting edge of leadership/team training. It picks up where university speech/communication courses leave off.

If your intention is to effect a highly organized team through your conversations, through your leadership skills, the tutorial is a must.

The single-most powerful barrier to being an effective leader is one's ego. Most people will put up with mediocrity rather than ask for support. They will unconsciously destroy a relationship or their reputation rather than seek out a communication-skills coach. 

One of the nice things about the tutorial is that it is educational rather than psychological or therapeutic, therefore it supports your advancement.

Kerrith H. (Kerry) King
Communication-Skills Coach

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what

What are the topics?

There are three required topics and ten optional topics. You may also add one additional topic of your own.

The three required topics are:

Responsibility
Agreements
Incompletes

The ten optional topics are:

  1. integrity - restoring/maintaining ( more )

  2. procrastination and doing complete work ( more )

  3. harmony & teamwork ( more )

  4. communicating/getting emotions ( more )

  5. interviews and interrogations ( more )

  6. clearing and emptying the mind ( more )

  7. being approachable, safe, and comfortable to talk with ( more )

  8. inspiring young people ( more )

  9. managing/training your superordinates ( more )

  10. effecting support and respect throughout the community ( more )

When you register for the tutorial you may place a check-mark alongside one or more of the above ten optional topics. There's also a place on the Registration Form to add your own worded topic of interest.

The tutorial also includes clarifications of the following words:

cause creating space
effect manipulation control
manifesting completing abuse
helping caring lying
discipline ethics deceit
truth serving goal
standards belief consequence
purpose incomplete thwarting
sabotage support context

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Who is the tutorial for?

The tutorial is for all law enforcement professionals.

police officers
superintendents
commissioners
chiefs
supervisors
investigators
sergeants
parole professionals
officers
administrators
instructors
sheriffs
secretaries
leaders/trainers
correctional professionals
all related support personnel

The tutorial is presented free as a community service. It is not open to the public.

Registration Requirement: Eligibility Statement

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how

How does the tutorial work?

The way the tutorial works is:

  1. Read the first of the three required topics (approx fifteen minutes per topic).

  2. Post your comments/reactions about it on a password protected message board.

  3. Return to the message board in about 12 hours to read the tutorial coach's comments/feedback to your post.

  4. Reply to the coach's comments and questions through to mutual satisfaction (some conversations require dozens of message board posts).

  5. Continue with the next topic.

If you are concerned about privacy you may request a Private Message Board (PMB). There is a non refundable fee of $100 for this private service. With a PMB, others, especially other Police Tutorial Participants, will not be able to read your conversations with the tutorial coach. However, you will be able to read but not post to other participant's posts.  Click here to pay for this option.

Keep in mind the tutorial only works if you are wiling to be totally open and honest with the coach. There is considerable value to be gotten from reading other participant's posts and in allowing them to read yours. The tutorial content for all participants using either message board is the same.

The topics stimulate engaging interactions between you and the communication skills coach.

To ensure optimum personal attention only a handful of active tutorial participants are allowed at any one time. 

If we are full the Registration Form will have a link reading, Notify me of an opening. Click the link and leave your name and email address to be notified when there is an opening.

Once a participant gets the hang of posting and replying to the message board they are encouraged to share specific professional, personnel, relationship problems; other participants are welcome to post feedback. The Private Message Board does not allow other participants to read or comment on your posts.

The tutorial is designed and coached by a former US Navy UDT member (now called SEALs) who is also a qualified submariner and 2nd Class Hard Hat Diver and retired US Army infantry officer and paratrooper. The coach left the Navy to attended college and graduated R.O.T.C. with honors and received a Regular Commission in the Army. The coach served two tours in Vietnam leading Army airborne infantry units. For the past 32 years the tutorial coach has been a communication skills consultant. He also taught speech/communication courses part-time at the University of Hawaii.

The tutorial consists of the best from academic, business, military and various other positive results-oriented team/leadership communication models. The central theme throughout the tutorial is teamwork. It is non sectarian and non political.

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promise

The promise of the tutorial:

I promise if you complete the tutorial you will find yourself communicating effectively more often with your fellow officers, community members and family. Effectively here means, through-to-mutual-satisfaction.

Kerrith H. (Kerry) King
Pres. Community Communications
Tutorial Coach

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cost

How much does it cost?

The Communication Skills Tutorial for Police is free.

It is paid for by workshop, consultation, and lecture fees and donations.

Once you start the tutorial you'll be given a password that entitles you to free consulting, feedback/coaching through one of our two message boards*.

*There are two tutorial message boards.

1) The free password-protected Police Tutorial Message Board (PTMB).

The PTMB is for officers who have no problem with fellow officers/spouses reading or even replying to their message board posts. This is the ideal way to do the tutorial because you get to read other's problems and their solutions. There is no fee to do the tutorial using the PTMB.
pmb

2) The fee-based password-protected Private Message Board (PMB)

The PMB is for officers who would prefer privacy, perhaps to discuss a touchy departmental problem. It is for an officer who has concerns about others reading the content of their posts. That is to say, it is possible for a fellow officer or superior officer in your department, who is also doing the tutorial, to read your posts and figure out who you are. The tutorial does not work if you are not willing to be completely open and forthcoming with the tutorial coach. The fee-based PMB supports open and honest communication without fear of consequence. (read our Privacy Policy)

For example: If during your teens you grew/sold marijuana and lied about it on your Police Application Form then this unacknowledged perpetration is having profound consequences. It affects each and every interaction you have with everyone. Given that most departments do not have an amnesty acknowledgement process (a time to acknowledge all perpetrations without fear of consequence) the PMB is the perfect place for you to acknowledge such a perpetration. PMB posts are deleted upon completion of the tutorial or upon request.

The PMB assures you that only the coach will read and reply to your posts.

Those requesting the PMB will have access to reading but not replying to the free PTMB.

There is a $100 fee to do the tutorial using the PMB (pay here). Upon paying you'll be taken to the Registration Form.

There is a place on the Registration Form to check if you have paid for the PMB. Leave it blank if you want to use the free PTMB.

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