The Winning Mind© 

Dave Smith

8 hours

Presented by David S. Smith

Dave Smith & Associates

Winning Mind Seminars

Dave “J.D. Buck Savage” Smith first presented The Winning Mind© in 1987.  Since then it has evolved into one of the most remarkable training experiences that law enforcement personnel will ever attend.  By looking at the key components of peak performance, including who survives and why, the roles that optimism, risk and bureaucracy play in our personal and professional lives, and how individuals and organizations can make themselves truly resilient, Dave presents an entertaining & inspiring program designed to help everyone, regardless of their experience, optimize their odds of winning any confrontation.

The Winning Mind is updated continuously and can be customized for any agency, event, conference or audience.  In his unique, energetic style, Dave Smith gives men & women the mental edge they need to not only face threats on the street but also manage the stresses they may confront in their daily lives, both on and off duty.  In this multi-media session, Dave will discuss:

• What makes someone a “winner?”
• Why “survival” is minimalistic and we must train to WIN!
• Understanding the role beliefs play in winning.
• What is true “optimism?”
• The science of crisis decision making.
• The “Not Today” mindset, every day, on every shift
• The role of “Warrior Ethos” in all aspects of law enforcement.
• Understanding your own Risk Thermostat.
• Maintaining optimism in a bureaucratic world
• Preventing panic, the “archenemy of survival.” 
• Being truly resilient after a setback!

This course is perfect for everyone in your agency from management to recruits, from sworn to civilian, from patrol to investigations, and can be customized to fit individual agency needs. Dave Smith’s The Winning Mind has something for everyone!

Gangs in Schools:  Prevention to Investigation

This one-day class is for school officials, teachers, police officers, school resource officers, detectives, juvenile detectives, and gang officers   Learn the tools proven to reduce gang activity and violence in and around grade schools, middle schools, high schools and Universities by gang experts.  Blocks of instructions will include:

• Identifying existing problems in your schools
• Dealing with school administration
• Dealing with uncooperative parents
• Gang identification and documentation in schools
• Gang recruitment in schools
• Student’s rights and Due Process
• Gang education and specific training for parents, staff/teachers

• Alternative school programs

Gangs in Schools: Prevention to Investigation was developed and is presented by Dom Cappelluti, Street-Strategies, Inc. and it is part of  his one-day topic specific seminar series.

Gang Combat Dynamics (GCD): A Zero-tolerance Approach to Gangs

This two-day course will provide the investigator with strategies to vigorously target, investigate, interview/interrogate, prosecute and prevent resurgence of criminal street gangs. The program will equip the investigator with the knowledge and tools to “attack” organized gangs by using a multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional approach. The concepts taught in this course have been used to effectively dismantle gangs and take back communities.

• Understanding today’s gang alliances and their growing social network
• Gangs in schools
• Effective street interviewing
• Conducting gang investigations- graffiti to homicide
• Being successful in the interview- getting confessions from
• Strategize your follow up attack- eradication strategies

This popular workshop has been instrumental in helping organizations improve relationships with dispatchers and the first responders they serve. We recognize that all personnel are trying to do essentially the same job from two very different locations and perspectives.  They often have separate rules, dissimilar shifts, and frankly, neither entity truly understands the other.  Recognizing “The Love/Hate Relationship” can bring dispatchers, first responders, and their supervisors and managers together like no other workshop offered on the market today.

This interactive, multi-media session will give attendees the insight they need to bridge the gap between line personnel and the dispatchers and call-takers that support help them and help everyone see, hear and feel what is happening on both sides of the microphone.  As public safety organizations, we must recognize that the actions, instincts, and expertise of a good dispatcher can play a vital role in police officer safety and survival and managers can bring both sides together to work as a team.

A dispatcher can be a police officer’s life-line in a dangerous encounter.  This workshop will give everyone who attends new insight into bringing those on the street and those in the communications center together, and will be tailored to your organization.

This course will provide additional insight on:

• Helping dispatchers understand officer survival tactics on and off the street
• Recognizing the unique stressors dispatcher face on every tour of duty
• Applying “warrior ethos” to the dispatch function as well as the entire organization
• Defining respectful and “tactical” communication techniques for all personnel
• Bringing dispatchers and officers together before, during and after a critical incident
• How you and your personnel can communicate effectively within your organization…really
• Helping personnel understand and appreciate gender and generational differences
• Learning to manage and use “conflict” to become a truly functional team
• And so much more!