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.NMLEA NEWS
The Fall Colors of Training... and Conflict
As we watch the leaves fall and the holiday season approach, a lot of things are changing all around us. We’ve weathered the election along with multiple storms, fires, floods and increased personal conflicts… with a sprinkling of a pandemic over the top. I am sure we are looking forward to a change when all that is taken into account.
But one thing that is definitely changing is training. Public safety professionals in agencies, departments and offices across the country are wrestling with their training demands amongst the changes we mentioned, and trying to map out the path ahead. At the NMLEA, we’ve been heavily involved through the summer in “digital learning transformations,” helping agencies of all sizes and shapes develop solutions that can adapt the new landscape (or seascape.) And aside from transitioning Instructor-Led Training (ILT) to Virtual ILT or blended type programs in multiple subject areas, one area as surfaced as a “hot” subject: Conflict Resolution training.
To answer that need, the Academy has partnered with Interact Performance Systems to launch Conflict Resolution Training designed specifically for Public Safety professionals, and people from all industries and disciplines. “Interact is a company that has led the national in interpersonal communication skills, through a series of programs that have been the gold standard for decades,” said NMLEA Executive Director Mark DuPont. “Since 1981, organizations like Ford, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and Stanford University have chosen Interact as the essential training solution for conflict resolution, problem solving and performance management… now we are making this available to our brothers and sisters within the public safety community.”
DuPont concluded by saying, “In this period of divisiveness and distancing as it relates to how we ‘interact’ with each other, there is no more critical time in our Nation’s history than right now, and no more important training than the Interact Performance System programs, which have stood the test of time for over four decades. Every chief, administrator, supervisor, and manager in America is looking for this answer, right now.”
For more information on transforming your training, or conflict resolution training from Interact Performance Systems, contact us at info@nmlea.org.
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Piracy Surges in Gulf of Guinea
A total of nineteen seafarers have been kidnapped in two separate incidents in the Gulf of Guinea as piracy surges in the region. The first incident involved the heavy lift ship ZHEN HUA 7. According to reporting from Dryad Global, the incident took place November 13 when pirates boarded the ship as it drifted approximately 78 nautical miles northwest of Sao Tome. The incident resulted in fourteen crew being kidnapped. The second incident involved the AM Delta, a general cargo ship registered in Ghana. According to Dryad, the vessel was boarded and five crew kidnapped approximately 44 nautical miles from South Brass, Nigeria.
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.OTHER NEWS
Hydrospatial and the marine environment
Hydro International
Hydrographic offices (HOs) today exist in a world of accelerating technological change that is influencing human behaviour and creating new needs and ways of exploiting data to understand our world. HOs have traditionally been the producers of nautical information for safety of navigation. By the end of the 20th century, with the appearance of the IHO S-57 Standard, their main challenge was to evolve into a central database production system.
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Supporting boating safety on GivingTuesday
Boating Industry
GivingTuesday, the annual global movement that encourages people to do good, will again take place on December 1. For boaters wishing to make boating safer and waters cleaner, donating to the BoatUS Foundation’s “B.O.A.T. – Bring On Another Thousand” Giving Tuesday fundraiser helps makes boating better for all recreational boaters.
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5 steps towards successful digitalisation in the maritime industry
Seatrade Maritime News
The maritime and shipping industry has historically relied heavily on manual processes to manage the data it uses for decision-making at both a strategic and tactical level. However, this dependence on manual methods is coming under scrutiny as the industry seeks better ways to navigate an increasingly complicated reality, in which factors such as economic volatility, heightened geopolitical risk and, most recently, the pandemic add to the complexity and uncertainty.
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Coast Guard, Army join hands in manpower training, education
Manila Bulletin
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and the Philippine Army (PA) have joined hands in future conduct of manpower education and training. The two agencies signed a memorandum of understanding on November 23 intended to unite both service commands.
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Coast Guard Foundation celebrates GivingTuesday
Boating Industry
The Coast Guard Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to strengthening the Coast Guard community and service by supporting members and families, announced today that on this GivingTuesday, the organization will inspire generosity by launching a matching gift challenge from GEICO. Supporting its work to assist Coast Guard members and their families, the Foundation will match donations received on Tuesday, December 1, 2020.
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5 maritime sustainability trends for 2021
Freight Waves
According to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), “ships transport roughly 90% of world trade and account for 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions.” The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is having a large impact on sustainable operations for ocean freight. Here are five environmental sustainability trends coming in 2021.
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US Coast Guard cutter returns to base due to COVID-19 outbreak
Maritime Executive
Three weeks after departing on its latest counter-narcotics patrol, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter has been forced to suspend its mission and return to base due to an outbreak of the coronavirus aboard the ship. The cutter, which has a strong track record on previous deployments, will remain in port while the crew is quarantined.
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