Training Event
- SCHEDULE
Week 1 - Jan | 23 - 27 | 2012 - Leadership
The goal of this session is to provide an educational experience that helps the company / chief officer recognize what
effective leadership is, understand the differences between leadership styles, and develop the skills required to select the most appropriate style
for them and the situation.
Week 2 - Apr | 9 - 13 | 2012 - Human Resources
This session was identified as one of the training programs needed. The overall goal of this course is to provide a foundation of skills, knowledge,
and tools for the newly promoted chief officer to effectively manage and develop the human resources in his or her command.
Week 3 - Jul | 16 - 20 | 2012 - Community Risk Reduction / Operations
The goal of this session is to prepare newly promoted company / chief officers to manage risk reduction responsibilities at their organizational level, in concert
with the overall risk reduction missions of their departments.
Week 4 - Sept | 17 - 21 | 2012 - Operations
The goal of this session is to provide an educational experience that will help the newly promoted company / chief officers to perform
competently at an emergency incident. Although emergencies have been reduced at varying rates, they are still the most resource intensive and
dangerous component of the emergency services today.
- LOCATION
Lynnwood Fire Department
18800 44th Av West
Lynnwood, WA 98036
- COST
$899.00 - Before December 1, 2011
$999.00 - After December 1, 2011
( Lunch not included )
- TARGET AUDIENCE
The target audience is composed of those officers who have recently moved from being in charge of a responding section within a station or department (possibly over multiple shifts) to being responsible for commanding a variety of units from multiple stations or departments. In their new roles, the newly promoted chief officer would be responsible for strategic decision-making at incidents, leaving the tactical decision-making to lower-level officers. In career departments, this newly appointed chief officer might often be at the battalion chief level. In a volunteer or combination volunteer and career department, the newly appointed chief officer could typically be referred to as a Battalion Chief, but may have another rank such as Captain or Lieutenant, Senior Firefighter aspiring to become a chief officer.
- NARRATIVE
The U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA's) National Fire Academy (NFA) has developed this new curriculum for newly promoted chief officers in both
career and volunteer departments. This curriculum follows the recommendations of a panel of experts from across the country convened at the National
Fire Academy to validate the need for this curriculum. The Curriculum Advisory Committee (CAC) agreed that the target audience, newly promoted chief
officers and battalion chiefs, represented a small but critically important segment of the fire and emergency services population. The committee further
agreed that adequate training programs did not exist on the local or national level. Participants of the CAC reached consensus on a curriculum addressing
24 content areas and comprising 4 weeks of training.
