The Community Manager chats with Robin Dreeke, Behavioral Expert at the FBI. He shares his insite into why people act the way they do, and how to anticipate community behaviors and build a lasting trust:
1. I gave you a brief intro but tell us more about your career.
Let me start by first stating that what most people need to say when working primarily for the gov… the standard disclaimer. These are my thoughts and opinions alone and not those of the FBI and that I am here as myself and author of my book.
My career with the USG is approaching my 27th year. I have had many jobs between my time in the Marine Corps to those in the FBI. In every job I have had the most important aspect to success has been strong interpersonal / leadership skills and team (community) building. In the last number of years I was fortunate to have the opportunity to write and teach what I had learned throughout my lifetime of trials and fantastic errors.
I was very fortunate to have amazing mentors and people in my life who modeled the interpersonal behaviors that I was desperately lacking. Like most of us, I wanted to be successful at my job and I focused on those skills to better understand them in an attempt to add them to who I was… and now I’m here 🙂
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