supporting operations across the globe
From the Americas to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific, The Unconventional provides agile support and trusted expertise wherever our partners need us most.
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The Unconventional Training on Request (TUTOR) Virtual School platform
TUTOR provides our clients and learners the flexibility to train anywhere and anytime with on-demand Language Regional Expertise and Culture (LREC) instruction.
lrec instruction
Our Academic Coordinators and Instructors develop and deliver customized Individual Language Training Plan (ILTP) tutoring and intensive courses focused on operational and general proficiency requirements including initial acquisition, enhancement, test prep, and immersion/pre-deployment prep.
Integrated Technologies
Our multi-media classrooms provide comprehensive Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) connectivity including laptops, tablets, smartphones, and secure “scaled back” Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and telephonic classrooms. Our Learning Management System (LMS) includes content and activity hosting, student reporting, scheduling, full CL-150 access and additional resources capable of supporting 130+ languages.
technical support
Our helpdesk provides all training administrators, instructors, and students worldwide with 24/7 live technical support.
immersions
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Our CONUS ISO-immersions and OCONUS Live Environment Training (LET) Courses provide an intensive and holistic educational experience. Guided by instructors, students learn by seeing, hearing, and soliciting local country and regional perspectives and cultural nuances. Every immersion course is customized to meet each client’s specified training requirements and 100% of our students improve in speaking and participatory listening skills along.
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Our Live Environment Training (LET) courses are generally four-week programs. Instruction is conducted entirely in the target language and is broken down into classroom instruction, task-based simulation instruction, and regional culture structured interactions. Student’s training includes a macro-to-micro-level comprehensive regional and cultural understanding of the location’s history, cultural nuances, regional norms, religion, politics, family structure, socioeconomics, normal criminal activities, demographics, and area dialects spoken other than the primary language. Our instructors also supplement language training with Diplomatic, Industry and Operational professional domain terminology.
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Isolation Immersion Training (ISO) is our unique language training program executed in CONUS cities where the target language is used on a daily basis. Instruction is conducted entirely in the target language and is broken down into two categories: task-based activity instruction and regional culture exposure.
Our unique training Isolation Immersion places students in key areas in the US that are densely populated with native speakers of the chosen language. Students are required to function and thrive in this environment while utilizing their language and cultural skills throughout while exposed to, implement, and use mission specific language and vocabulary in an isolated, immersive, realistic, and natural environment. Students engage in daily tasks to build and reinforce confidence in using the target language, to teach them mission specific language skills, and to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes of cultural nuances in both a regional and national context.
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A Regional Expertise and Culture Live Environment Training (RECLET) is an intensive,1-2-week, multi-city and/or multi-country, truly holistic, educational experience in a specified country or region.
Guided by TU’s REC SMEs students can learn by seeing, hearing, and soliciting true native country and regional perspectives cultural nuances. Utilizing the country’s transportation infrastructure, the student will travel to the key socio-economic and cultural locations, while engaging the local populace.
Upon course completion students can gain important cultural competencies including identifying aspects of the specified foreign culture that may cause/provide friction or conflict with their own culture along with developing mitigation strategies.
tactical training
The Unconventional offers specialized capabilities to address your organization’s training requirements. Each Unconventional Small Unit Tactics (SUT) –Mobile Training Team (MTT) is comprised of hand-selected professionals who provide results that exceed our competitor and customer standards and expectations. Our operators have conducted tactical training courses and tactical consulting across the globe spanning the entire tactical spectrum. Our flexible capabilities will specifically address your needs, your time frame and your individual areas of concern. Our goal is to help you, our customer, navigate your way to the most appropriate and cost-effective solutions.
operational support
We deliver quality, innovative operational mission support services to our nation’s military and federal agencies with professional expertise built from a long history working within our military, law enforcement, and special operations organizations at the “tip of the spear” all around the world. Our specialists work with our diverse clients to solve their most complex and challenging problems through the use of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, problem-solving process where all assumptions, methods, processes, and conclusions are questioned, analyzed, and evaluated. We partner with our clients by leveraging our understanding of their issues, anticipating operational challenges, maintaining open communication with all stakeholders, and applying our ability to deliver quality solutions that solve real-world problems, on time and on budget.