LEARN THE MODERN WAY TO Teach, evaluate and document a trainee's performance

FTO Webinar Series

This 2 part webinar series was filmed in San Jose, CA, where the FTO concept was created. Our instructors give you a crash course in some of the most popular topics from our FTO training courses. 

What's included?

  • Over three hours of material from our expert instructors
  • Tangible tools you can use with your trainees
  • Tips and downloads
  • The modern science of learning and how it affects you and a recruit in a patrol car. 

Part 1 - FTO Refresher

  •  How to first diagnose the root cause of a trainee's issue using a simple analysis and then how to fix the issue.
  • The most common documentation errors made by FTOs
  • Review of the Teach / Evaluate / Document theory 

Part 2 - Helping Your Trainee Make Sense of What is Happening

  • Why are trainees failing?
  • "The trainee doesn't know how to multi-task" and how to fix it
  • Practical applications of sense-making
These are an on-demand webinars. The total run time of the videos is approximately 3 1/2 hours.
Meet the instructors

Dom Gamboa, 
Steve "Pappy" Papenfuhs, Eddie Chan & Scott Savage

Our FTO instructors are not only highly experienced law enforcement professionals from Northern California but are also expert instructors.

Eddie Chan is a current FTO Sergeant with the San Jose Police Department in California.

Steve "Pappy" Papenfuhs is a former FTO Sergeant with the San Jose Police Department.

Scott Savage is a former FTO and Sergeant with the Palo Alto Police Department (CA) and is now a current officer with the the Santa Clara Police Department (CA).

Dom Gamboa is a former Training Unit Officer with the San Francisco Police Department.

Each has decades of experience teaching law enforcement officers. They are obsessed with delivering highly engaging courses and they are the reason why our FTO training programs are so different than the typical "Death by Power Point" courses. 
Dom Gamboa, Steve Papenfuhs & Scott Savage
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