Active Listening Skills
Definitions
Team Roles
Behavioral Influence Stairway Model (BISM)
Basic Knowledge
100

Phrases such as "uh huh" , "ok" , and "I see"

What are Minimal Encouragers

100

a conservative non-violent means of mitigating a threat involving the taking of hostages, a barricaded subject, or a potential suicide victim.

What is Crisis Negotiations

100

This person is the primary contact with the subject in crisis

What is a Primary Negotiator? 

100

Hello, my name is _______, I am with the __________ and I would like to help.

What is the Introduction?

100

This should be asked for early into the negotiations

What is surrender?

200

The acronym commonly used to list each step of ALS

What are MOREPIES

200

a person who has come to the attention of LE as someone who is reasonable believed to be at risk of taking their own life.

What is a suicidal subject?

200

This person maintains the incident information, makes not of significant developments, and monitors the negotiation.

What is a Scribe/Recorder?

200

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Step 3. 

What is Empathy? 

200

When given a deadline, you should do this

What is Talk Through It?

300

this is the deliberate pause at key points for emphasis and reflection

What is Effective Pause

300

a deliberate strategy for developing a relationship between the crisis negotiator and the person in crisis

What is the Behavioral Influence Stairway Model?

300

This member generates intelligence leads, reviews and analyzes intelligence, facilitates the dissemination or relevant intelligence to the team. 

What is an Intelligence Coordinator? 

300

Staying focused on the process of developing a relationship with the person while focused on the outcome of the crisis. 

What is rapport building 

300

When using ALS, this is more important than any phrase you could say.

What is Tone of Voice? 

400

Who, what, when, where, why, and how, are...

What is an open-ended question

400

The act of engaging a subject in dialogue to reduce stress regarding the arrival of responders and impede the subjects ability to make the scene more dangerous

What is Verbal Containment?

400

This member monitors all negotiation dialogue, screens and passes on suggestions for questions or relevant intelligence, develops strategy as it relates from command directives, provides emotional support, provides relief when necessary, etc....

What is a Secondary Negotiator/Coach?

400

If the Negotiator is not making progress, it is best to go back to this step and start over. Step 2.

What is Active Listening?

400

The primary objective during any crisis situation

What is Preservation of Life?

500

Each letter in M.O.R.E.P.I.E.S stands for 

what is?

Minimal Encouragers

Open-ended questions

Reflecting/Mirroring

Emotional Labeling

Paraphrasing

"I" Messages

Effective Pauses

Summary/Summarize

500

A condition in where hostages develop a psychological bond with their captors during captivity.

What is Stockholm Syndrome?

500

The most amazing and intelligent person of the CCJCNT and WYDOC CNT who provides leadership and training for all her little negotiators but at times a little intimidating.

Who is Penny Martinez?

500

Developed in the late 1990s and formally publicized in the early 2000s, this agency created the Behavioral Influence Stairway Model. 

Who is the FBI?

500

Not often the reasoning why the subject took hostages or barricaded himself but often asked for in the interest of comfort, i.e cigarettes, drinks, and food. 

What are Secondary Demands?

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