Using “Gender Intelligence” to Improve Officer and Career Survival in Police Personnel

This course is designed to provide dispatchers, officers, trainers, supervisors, managers and other personnel with a realistic view of gender differences and how these can be harnessed to improve performance, morale, relationships, and officer safety.

Sgt. Betsy Smith will guide students through an 8 hour intensive, interactive training session that provides attendees with up to date information they can employ to improve and enhance their professional and personal lives, as well as those of their staff members and co-workers. We start with the history of women as warriors and then add gender-specific science and leadership principles that anyone can use to learn to truly motivate and improve morale, and to help their employees avoid a “victim-based mentality.” The multimedia format keeps students on the edge of their seats while we provide tips and tactics that attendees can use to foster better organizational communication, and enhance their training and mentoring programs. We provide information attendees can adapt for their own personal use long after the conference has concluded.

We’ll discuss training, equipment, tactics, off-duty survival, mentoring, defining success, relationships, dealing with the workplace bully, pregnancy on the job, learning to forgive but not forget, and how to truly make yourself a leader in your organization and help others do the same. Using real-world experience combined with gender intelligence, this course will inspire, motivate, and encourage you to help the women and the men of your organization to excel and to win, regardless of assignment!