Title: Performance Thinking for Law Enforcement: Mental Skills for Performance and SafetyAuthor(s) Jacques Dallaire, Ph.D.
ISBN13: 978-0-9851461-4-6
The pressure and stress of life that most people live under makes society a difficult environment for law-enforcement professionals to work within, especially when they’re charged with the complex job of serving the public, keeping the peace, and bringing criminals to justice. Indeed, a broad list of real-world challenges—terrorism, poverty, crime, mental health issues, racial tension, drugs, greed—create impediments that make the job of policing our communities difficult and, at times, outright dangerous.
Yet we depend on the selfless men and women of law enforcement to put their lives at risk to protect us virtually every day. At the same time, the system rightly demands that they not overstep their authority and that they interact with the people they’re in business to serve in a fair, respectful, and balanced way. But these opposing forces can sometimes lead to situations where officers and agents are torn between feeling like they’re damned if they take action and equally damned if they don’t. This cognitive tug-of-war can serve to sabotage their mindset and their personal performance, and it can sometimes lead to errors in judgment and execution . . . with disastrous results.
In Performance Thinking for Law Enforcement, performance expert Jacques Dallaire shares principles derived from more than four decades of real-world experience in the high-performance domain to help you understand how the way you think influences how you feel, how you behave and, ultimately, how you perform. This knowledge, together with the ACT Model technique, will show you how to more effectively control the way you think so you can optimize your performance on command, rather than mentally sabotage it. The end result is better performance and greater safety.
Dr. Jacques Dallaire is an internationally recognized performance expert who received his Doctorate in Exercise Physiology from the University of Alberta in 1979. For more than four decades, Dr. Dallaire has worked with thousands of individuals from the high-performance sport world and beyond, including law enforcement and other high-risk occupational professionals, the entertainment world, and the business community. He splits his time among delivering sports team and corporate group performance programs as well as one-on-one programs with high-performance clients.
Dr. Dallaire is president of Performance Prime, a North Carolina–based company, which he founded, is the author of Performance Thinking: Mental Skills for the Competitive World…and for Life and Helping Kids Perform, a Founding Member of the International Council of Motorsport Sciences, an Advisory Board Member of the Racing Goes Safer Foundation, and in 2007 was inducted into the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame, recognizing the positive impact he has had on the sport of motor racing.
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