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  • Track
    • Leadership/Management
  1. Precon Workshop
    This is a core class for officer, aspiring officer, and member professional development. It explains the essentials of well-rounded organizational leadership and the obligations of all ranks and level ...
  2. Classroom Session
    Learn what leadership of the future has to be. Buzzwords like authenticity and emotional intelligence are floating around in the leadership space, but this class will show you how to make them yours. ...
  3. Women In Fire
    This class gets real about what leadership of the future has to be. Buzzwords like authenticity and emotional intelligence are floating around in the leadership space, but this presentation will show ...
  4. Precon Workshop
    Documentation is the cornerstone of every EMS run, and getting it wrong can not only mean life or death, but it can cost the EMT/paramedic a career. Unfortunately, the current culture of EMS typically ...
  5. Classroom Session
    It is not enough to want to make a positive difference; you must put in the hard work and be prepared for the success of your goals and the inevitable backlash from critics! Any cause worth your passi ...
  6. Classroom Session
    This class provides current and aspiring officers with leadership and decision making must-haves to survive and even thrive as officers. Understand what you are supposed to do every day you go to work ...
  7. Classroom Session
    Unfortunately, bad things happen to even the best fire departments. We are great at responding to other people's emergencies, but are we prepared to respond when tragedy strikes our department or we h ...
  8. Women In Fire
    Unfortunately, bad things happen to even the best fire departments. We are great at responding to other people's emergencies, but are we prepared to respond when tragedy strikes our department or we h ...
  9. Classroom Session
    Officer development programs primarily focus on operational and administrative aspects, while little attention is given to the human dynamic element and critical thinking skills. Leadership can be tau ...
  10. Precon Workshop
    This class focuses on managing complex and challenging personnel issues, improving interpersonal skills, and elevating your organization to become a winning team. Share in the journey of the instructo ...
  11. Classroom Session
    Professional development is the planned, progressive, and lifelong process of education, training, self-development, and experience that you gain during your development. In the fire service, professi ...
  12. Precon Workshop
    In the fire service, getting from point “A” to point “B” is a challenge on emergency incident scenes, especial critical incidents. In addition, firefighters are faced with challenges around the fire s ...
  13. Classroom Session
    What is the number one reason for failure in the firehouse or on the fireground? Communication. And while 90% of the fires we fight are in the firehouse, we rarely spend the time practicing the critic ...
  14. Women In Fire
    This class covers key critical areas of communication in the firehouse. What is the number 1 reason for failure in the firehouse or on the fireground? Communication. And while 90% of the fires we figh ...
  15. Precon Workshop
    Attendees will get an in-depth look at the three pillars of organizational success. This workshop will cover the value of understanding intellectual intelligence, emotional intelligence, and interpers ...
  16. Classroom Session
    The requirements of today’s fire officer demand competence on more than just the fireground or EMS calls. Incidents that cause scandals, demotions, career loss, even line-of-duty deaths most often beg ...
  17. Precon Workshop
    For a variety of reasons including "new" generations, staffing, funding and the "world" just being different-and then add what we have learned in recent years about firefighting & fire command, there ...
  18. Classroom Session
    This class will review the hot legal issues affecting fire and EMS organizations on a daily basis.  Topics include guns, alcohol, and medical and recreational marijuana in the firehouse; transgender a ...
  19. Precon Workshop
    This program explains the value and importance of effective leadership skills in the fire service. Many of today’s problems in the firehouse and on the fireground can be traced back to insufficient an ...
  20. Classroom Session
    Recruiting, retention, readiness. Mentorship, succession, promotion, mental health, and mutual-aide relationships. These all seem like separate issues but they can all be addressed, in part, through a ...
  21. Women In Fire
    Recruiting, retention, readiness. Mentorship, succession, promotion, mental health, and mutual-aide relationships. These all seem like separate issues but they can all be addressed, in part, through a ...
  22. Classroom Session
    Many agencies are underfunded but still are expected to meet their mission and goals. The fire service falls within this realm. Fire service equipment, training, and related costs such as insurance ar ...
  23. Classroom Session
    This class will focus on the stress and trauma faced by first responders and will give a strategy for how to recognize the dangers, prevent exposure, and handle the effects of the trauma. There will b ...
  24. Classroom Session
    Line-of-duty death (LODD) research and reporting serve as the cornerstone of a national effort to learn from firefighter fatalities and prevent similarly tragic outcomes. NIOSH LODD reports are a sign ...
  25. Classroom Session
    Have you ever doubted your career choice, position, status, or promotion, or have you doubted if you are showing up as your authentic self? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this class is ...
  26. Women In Fire
    Have you ever doubted your career choice, position, status, or promotion, or have you doubted if you are showing up as your authentic self? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this class is ...
  27. Classroom Session
    The chance to lead and create opportunities for others can be incredibly rewarding. But let's be honest, it can also be tremendously frustrating, especially when leaders face supervising unengaged, ne ...
  28. Classroom Session
    This class will discuss the 13 mission-critical rules of being a good leader at the company and command levels. Learn how these 13 rules can be adopted and implemented into your own leadership style, ...
  29. Classroom Session
    In small departments, it’s critical to conduct a proper risk assessment to be able to develop an adequate response plan. This class will review best practices used in risk assessment and share success ...
  30. Classroom Session
    This 45-year veteran of the fire service discusses leadership development, the power of positivity, conquering PTSD, the power of mentors, critical incident decision making, fireground tactics, achiev ...
  31. Classroom Session
    Leadership and PTSD training teaches first responder leaders how their leadership style before, during, and after potentially traumatic events (PTEs) influences if their subordinates develop PTSD, del ...
  32. Women In Fire
    This training teaches first responder leaders how their leadership style before, during, and after potentially traumatic events (PTEs) influences if their subordinates develop PTSD, Delayed Healing, R ...
  33. Classroom Session
    Leadership is a vast topic and talked about throughout the fire service, but building modern leaders in house who are ready to fill the gap left by their predecessors remains an elusive accomplishment ...
  34. Classroom Session
    This fun and engaging personal leadership development class is designed to inspire, educate, and motivate attendees to reignite the passion! To build and maintain a winning organization, we need every ...
  35. Classroom Session
    There are as many leadership theories as there are authors and books. This class is a practical exercise designed for fire officers or those who aspire to be. Discuessed are leadership tenets that the ...
  36. Classroom Session
    The opportunity to model effective leadership through training is within our grasp every single day! Training provides an angle, a conduit, a platform. It is a gift! It provides a window to engage wit ...
  37. Women In Fire
    In a unique profession where camaraderie is important and we thrive off peer groups, how do you effectively create and maintain boundaries while finding a new support system? This class is designed to ...
  38. Classroom Session
    It's 2024, and the challenges firefighters, fire officers, and the fire service face can seem unsurmountable. From serious challanges of recruiting and keeping people to funding to training them to th ...
  39. Classroom Session
    Review the issues that get fire departments into grievances, legal action, or just mistrust with the test takers. Included are federal requirements, legal decisions, and the actions to take to reduce ...
  40. Classroom Session
    Every time we interact with the public is an opportunity to gain support for your organization. Every day is an election day, where we can gain their support or lose their trust. Building relationship ...
  41. Classroom Session
    Learn how your organization can actively engage your audience using social media during emergency and nonemergency situations. Discussion points will include the most effective social media tools and ...
  42. Classroom Session
    This class reviews the top administrative policies every fire department (United States and Canada) must have to prevent liability, huge jury verdicts, firefighter injuries, and public embarrassment a ...
  43. Classroom Session
    As an officer, you are responsible for effective EEO training, setting the standard and resolving any problems that arise, before things get out of hand. This program will not focus greatly on what th ...
  44. Women In Fire
    As an officer, you are responsible for effective EEO training, setting the standard and resolving any problems that arise before things get out of hand. This program will not focus greatly on what the ...
  45. Classroom Session
    This class is for all current and future fire and EMS leaders interested in improving their communication skills to connect with their membership and fellow emergency services providers. Using an inte ...
  46. Classroom Session
    The United States Fire Administrator's Summit on Fire Prevention and Control: State of Science identified recruitment and retention of personnel for career, volunteer, and combination organizations as ...
  47. Women In Fire
    The United States Fire Administrator's Summit on Fire Prevention and Control: State of Science identified recruitment and retention of personnel for career, volunteer, and combination organizations as ...
  48. Classroom Session
    This class will introduce officers and aspiring fire service leaders to some of the most important skills they will need to become more effective leaders in today's fire service. Those skills include ...
  49. Women In Fire
    The 7 C's of Fire Officer Trust are Commitment, Competence, Confidence, Communication, Courtesy, Consistency, and Courage. It's a privilege and honor to train new officers in a variety of ranks and di ...
  50. Classroom Session
    It's a privilege and an honor to train new officers in a variety of ranks and disciplines. It is a privilege because it gives us all a chance to share, learn, and gain insight into the many components ...
  51. Classroom Session
    This class for fire EMS leaders will discuss data from current sources related to emergency care in America and the trends in emergency service utilization to forecast future needs for emergency medic ...
  52. Classroom Session
    This is geared toward professionals who wish to expand their abilities in leadership. It is aimed at anyone who wishes to lead at any level. It is rooted in improving team performance and has applicat ...
  53. Classroom Session
    In virtually every forum where Mobile Integrated Health is presented as the future of Mobile Medicine (broadly defined as fire, EMS, nonemergency medical/interfacility transport, critical care, and co ...
  54. Precon Workshop
    Learn the Eight Cs of Success: Commitment, Culture, Character, Competence, Capabilities, Coordination, Contribution, and Communications. Commitment focuses on the three levels of professionalism and t ...
  55. Women In Fire
    This program is designed to address one of the biggest issue facing the American fire service, recruitment and retention. The foundation of this program is based on a 14-year period of The Colony Fire ...
  56. Women In Fire
    Whether it is the next meal, the call you wish would or would not ring in, or what you are doing on your day off, planning for the event is a lost art. In today’s fast-paced, immediate-gratification-d ...
  57. Classroom Session
    Whether it is the next meal, the call you wish would or would not ring in, or what you are doing on your day off, planning for the event is a lost art. In today’s fast-paced, immediate-gratification-d ...
  58. Precon Workshop
    We focus on tangible ways to increase your leadership influence and build your command presence. This is a fast moving, informative and entertaining program. Based off the culmination of years of succ ...
  59. Classroom Session
    Firehouse culture is one of the most unquantifiable metrics on how effective a fire department will be. In a time when the minimum standard is often mediocrity, this class will dive into what it takes ...
  60. Women In Fire
    Firehouse culture is one of the most unquantifiable metrics on how effective a fire department will be. In a time when the minimum standard is often mediocrity, this class will dive into what it takes ...
  61. Precon Workshop
    There is nothing quite like a firehouse. It can be the most incredible experience of your life or a miserable exile to purgatory. It can be a place of learning where skills are honed and techniques re ...
  62. Classroom Session
    This program is designed for company officers and leaders inside a firehouse to learn how to interact with other members of the department. The idea is to make interpersonal relationships and required ...
  63. Classroom Session
    Today's fire service requires excellence on all fronts. Your department expects efficiency regarding training, recordkeeping, agency compliance, and safety measures. The citizens expect effectiveness ...
  64. Classroom Session
    The fire service has no shortage of problems and challenges to address. Trying to find the root of that issue and then solving it can be quite complex. Using data and information, coupled with departm ...
  65. Women In Fire
    The fire service has no shortage of problems and challenges to address. Trying to find the root of that issue and then solving it can be quite complex. Using data and information, coupled with departm ...