Episode 27 | Beyond the Briefing
Episode 27 | Beyond the Briefing
What if your agency’s most overlooked training opportunity happens every single shift?
In this episode of Two Chiefs, One Mic, Chief Scott Hughes and Chief Mike Hawkins sit down with Jay Gerace and Sara Fiegl to discuss how agencies can transform roll call from routine announcements into meaningful, high-impact training.
The conversation explores:
- Tactical Decision Games (TDGs)
- Scenario-based roll call training
- Improving officer decision-making
- Building confidence under stress
- Low-cost, high-impact training methods
- Developing proactive supervisors and field leaders
- Making briefing time actually productive
Chief Gerace and Sara share practical examples and empirical results showing how short, focused training sessions during roll call can improve communication, critical thinking, officer confidence, and overall performance in the field.
This episode is packed with ideas that agencies of any size can implement immediately.
If you’re a police chief, supervisor, trainer, FTO, or officer who cares about improving performance and building a stronger training culture, this episode is for you.
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