Course: Understanding Modern Day Officer Dynamics: The goal of the presentation is designed to allow for current and aspiring officers and officer candidates from the career and volunteer fire service, with a meaningful and educational learning experience, making for a well-rounded officer who will address very many challenges that lie ahead. The Fire Officer’s, role is that providing a positive influence and role model for subordinates. It requires such traits as fairness, objectivity, impartiality, above all, professionalism and ethical conduct. Your mission is to enhance the development of your subordinates, once you make the officer’s rank. It’s not my intention to reshape your accountability by this one training session, but rather provide you with a clear indication of where you are now, and how to advance successfully in the future. The candidate will be provided with documents concerning officer’s questionnaire – Organizational Command Chart-Requirements on Becoming an Officer – New Officer Changed Relationships – Source of Assistance – Objective of Supervision – Having Basic and Effective Supervisory Practices with Management and Staff. (How to handle Conflicts between Subordinates and Maintaining Discipline and Receiving Criticism)
Instructor: William Timmons t.p.i. / c.f.i.
Prerequisites: None
Equipment: None
Course: Minimum Manpower Operations:
The shortage of physical assets (manpower) is a problem shared by fire departments throughout the country.
Our challenge is to operate, efficiently and safely with the assets we have on hand.
Through classroom instruction and hands-on practical sessions this course will provide students with the knowledge and practical experience to formulate Minimum Manpower procedures for their departments.
Instructor: Green Mountain Associates
Training Prerequisites: None
Equipment: PPE Required
Course: Bringing Calm to the Chaos and Conflict Resolution: Saturday AM – (Bringing Calm to the Chaos) – The fire service has properly prepared firefighters to respond to a Mayday. We do skills and drills for RIT. But has your department prepared their command officers on how to handle a Mayday? This class will review statistics, types of situations that cause firefighters to be in distress. Policy and procedures on how to perform progressive RIT operations before the Mayday. We will also introduce how to build out your incident command team to be better prepared for the impending chaos. All attendees will get our Managing the Mayday tactical checklist and Radio Operations protocol. Your firefighters and their families deserve incident commanders who are well prepared to function under serious duress.
Saturday PM – (The Leadership Trap – Conflict Resolution) – Most leadership training is focused on managing people and tangible things. But the fire service is all about the people business. We in general provide service and support to our communities. As numbers reduce, we simply can’t meet those demands without engaged and motivated people. Regardless if you are paid, paid on call or are working as in a volunteer status, successful leaders must understand and be comfortable with dealing with negativity. Come learn about cognitive dissonance and how we must be able to read, map and positively engage people on a whole new level!
Instructor: Billy Greenwood
Training Prerequisites: None
Equipment: None