Promotion to chief officer changes everything. This 16-hour course prepares newly promoted and aspiring chief officers in Ohio township fire departments, joint fire districts, and similar agencies for the leadership challenges of serving suburban and rural communities. Using a firehouse kitchen table approach, this class will examine the challenges leaders face when moving from company-level leadership into battalion chief, assistant chief, or fire chief responsibilities. The focus is on candid lessons learned, practical problem-solving, and the issues chief officers face when the promotion becomes reality.
Topics include staffing deployment considerations, community risk assessments, fire station planning and construction, fire levies, working with township trustees and fire boards, fire apparatus assessment and replacement schedules, grant opportunities, township based fire budgets, officer promotion methods, starting a fire-based EMS service, personnel performance issues, relationships with vendors, regional planning, LEPCs, emergency management, and other agencies, pros and cons of professional credentialing, and using military decision making processes to tackle complex projects.
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