Programs
Command Success's programs focus on building foundational leadership, employee and self-development, and improving training and education programs. Our programs are designed to help aspiring, new, and tenured leaders alike. While our experience is rooted in fire service leadership and training, the principles found in our programs can be utilized across many disciplines. Contact us for more information!
C.O.D.E. B.L.U.E. Leadership ©
This leadership principle will provide an acronym easily identified and employed by supervisors and
persons of all leadership rank and experience. C.O.D.E. B.L.U.E. Leadership is a method and improvement tool that has zero associated costs to individuals or employers. Throughout the presentation the presenter will engage students to offer examples of behaviors and previous experiences which will be utilized to challenge the principle.
This principle is an acronym used to describe the active process in observing and implementing change in employees. The first word, C.O.D.E., describes the observation phase of the principle, while the second word B.L.U.E., describes the implementation phase. This engaging and active process will provide new and experienced leaders alike a tangible method and an organized thought process to leadership.
Creating and Refining a Fire Academy: The Role of the Training Officer
If your training academy has been stripped of all of the cultural values that make great firefighters, or if your department never had it to begin with, this workshop is for you. This workshop wraps the key cultural aspects of brother/sisterhood into your training curriculum, from the most important historical origins for the fire service to modern disciplinary processes for recruits to develop model firefighter behaviors. Attendees will leave with HR-friendly turn-key examples that they can take back and implement immediately.
Learning Objectives:
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Developing an aggressive attitude towards training
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Integrating fire service history into fire training programs
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Building key firefighter traits and behaviors
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Administrative components of a basic training academy
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Moving from the Academy, to probation, to a firefighter
Lessons or Luck When You Are a New Officer (or Leader)
This presentation is focused on providing newly promoted and aspiring company officers (or leaders of any type outside the fire service) with “lessons learned.” Leadership development is a vital foundation to every leader, company, and organization. The “Lucky 13” will be thirteen lessons the presenter encountered during his first year as a Lieutenant in the fire service. Lessons are learned the hard way and sometimes even through luck. This course will provide examples of successes and challenges new leaders may face during the first year, all while developing a foundation or building off an existing one for the future.
A few examples are:
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You will feel waves
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Formulate your own perceptions
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Honor the past
Training Officer's Handbook
The Training Officer’s Handbook by W. Edward Buchanan Jr., Bobby Drake, and John M. Buckman III is the definitive guide for training operations in the modern fire service.
All firefighters, whether volunteer, combination, or career, need in-depth, realistic training. This book replaces the trial-and-error and “school of hard knocks” approach for training officers, deploying the authors’ many decades of combined experience to fill the gaps between instructor credentialing and managing a training system.
As a training officer, you’re tasked with leading and managing a training system that includes curriculum design, program scheduling, leading an instructor cadre, and mastering the technology required to meet your students where they are: in the classroom, on the drill ground, or remotely. This book helps you connect all the critical components of a highly efficient Fire & EMS training system in one place. It’s a book you will keep on your desk at the training academy, fire station, or even at home.
Recommendations in this book include:
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Honing your craft as a fire instructor to ensure an impactful instructional delivery
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Bringing a systemic approach to managing your training operations
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Mastering technology and instructional methodologies
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Networking and expanding your reach and impact as an instructor
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Real-world drills, props, and instructional development tools
