The Art of Critical Decision Making: Point-to-Point Decision Making for Fire Service Leaders
(Room 1A)
21 Feb 18
3:00 PM
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5:00 PM
Tracks:
Leadership and Managment
The closest distance between two points is a straight line. Achievement is not arriving at the solution; it is the journey and overcoming the obstacles to achieve a successful outcome. In the fire service, getting from point “A” to point “B” is a challenge on some emergency incident scenes, especial critical incidents. Firefighters are faced with challenges around the fire station and challenges in the administrative arena, like development of a succession plan or team. Point to point leadership provides fundamental principles that identify the challenges that fire service leaders’ encounter; and offers a step by step process to get through difficult situations and incidents. Leaders possess the ability to get to the point to point in the most expeditious route, but not necessarily in a straight line. Obstacles, variables, and predictable influences are ever present and this class will teach you to understand, predict and manage the obstacles on the emergency incident scene. This course will teach the students how to make critical decisions.