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March 4, 2014 By Brian Willis

Excellence in Training – Framing or Polishing?

The following is a recent blog post from author, speaker and marketing guru Seth Godin:

Framers and polishers 

The framer asks the original question, roughs out the starting designs, provokes the new thing.

The polisher finds typos, smooths out the rough edges and helps avoid the silly or expensive error.

Both are important. Unpolished work is hardly worth doing. 

Polishing is relentlessly reinforced in school and feels safe. Framing is fraught with risk and thus avoided by many. Too often, we spend our time on a little more polish, instead of investing in the breakthrough that a framer can bring.

What struck me when I read this post is the fact we need more framers in law enforcement training. We need more people who will “ask the original question, rough out the starting design and provoke the new thing.” We need to think differently, ask new, better and different questions and train differently. We need to lead differently, communicate differently and engage officers in training differently. We need to use video differently and incorporate imagery into our training. Not for the sake of being different, but for the sake of being better.

The world is changing and evolving and we need to stay on top of of our game. Once we we spend the time ‘framing’ we can spend time polishing to make sure our officers get the best learning experience possible every time they come to our training. 

It is time to stop polishing old stuff to make it look shiny and new. 

Excellence in Training is about framing first, then polishing. 

Take care.

Brian Willis – A Man With Many Questions

At Winning Mind Training we are driven by our dedication to inspiring the pursuit of personal excellence and our belief that every law enforcement officer deserves to experience awesome training.

The Excellence in Training Course is coming to a location near you.  Excellence in Training is a comprehensive professional development course created by a law enforcement trainer for law enforcement trainers. It is designed to help good trainers become great trainers and great trainers deliver awesome training. Check out our website at www.winningmindtraining.com for a list of upcoming dates and locations in 2014.

To book Brian to speak at your event or to your officers contact him at winningmind@mac.com.

 

 

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