The company officer in a volunteer organization is faced with a unique set of challenges, many that a career officer will never see. The politics, recruitment and retention, elections, a different crew each time they leave the firehouse and many more. This program will describe the needs, methods and leadership traits necessary for success as a company officer in a volunteer fire department.
What It Takes To Be That Great Volunteer Company Officer
- The Company Officer Academy
- Chief Officer Field Training Academy
- Our History
- The Volunteer Firefighter
- Sweating the Small Stuff
- Life’s Turns
- Graduation Day
- Fireground Scenario Workshop
- Time to Lead Chief!
- Firefighter Survival
- It’s OK to Train
- Never Forgetting, Means Never Forgetting
- Soaring With Eagles
- Firefighter Safety and Survival
- Managing the MAYDAY
- Truck Company Tactics
- Getting the Rear of the Building
- Surviving Life’s Fire
- Command Operations at Structural Fires
- Firefighter Safety and Survival – Revisited!
- Fire Service Traditions and Ceremonies
- EMS
- Failing to Read the Fire and Building Properly
- Great Leaders Make Difficult Decisions
- It’s Still the Best Job in the World!
- Making a Difference
- One Big Sandbox – And We Don’t Own The Sand!
- The Haz-Mat Team Leader
- The Three Degrees of Mayday
- Trapped! Now What?
- You’re the Chief, Now What and How?
- What It Takes To Be That Great Volunteer Company Officer
- Firehouse Survival