This one class has been cancelled due to low student enrollment. The remaining two standalone classes do not require attendance at the first scheduled class and can still be applied for.
March 2 - 3, 2013 Class Hours: 16 Course # 13223 Course Fee: $60.00
The purpose of this course is to provide Fire Service authority figures with knowledge and skills, enabling them to exercise leadership when confronting adaptive challenges presented by increasingly diverse internal and external communities. The goal of the course is for participants to utilize the diversity of ideas, peoples and cultures as resources in exercising leadership to address adaptive challenges in their communities.
The primary target audience of this class is fire and emergency service personnel in positions of authority who have an opportunity to exercise leadership.
National Fire Academy Direct Delivery
Executive Skills Series: Exercising Leadership to Facilitate Adaptive Change
May 18 – 19, 2013 Class Hours: 16 Course # 13224 Course Fee: $60.00
The purpose of this course is to provide skills which individuals in positions of authority can use to exercise leadership when confronted with adaptive challenges. The goal of this course is for the participant to develop an understanding of skills associated with exercising leadership to resolve adaptive problems, those problems where the solution is either unknown or requires significant change, or both.
The primary target audience is fire and emergency service personnel in positions of authority who have an opportunity to exercise leadership.
National Fire Academy Direct Delivery
Executive Skills Series: Exercising Leadership through Difficult Conversations
September 7 – 8, 2013 Class Hours: 16 Course # 14022 Course Fee: $60.00
The purpose of this course is to provide knowledge and skills for having difficult conversations to exercise leadership in addressing adaptive challenges. The goal of this course is for the participant to identify and apply skills for having difficult conversations as they relate to exercising leadership when addressing adaptive challenges.
The primary target audience is fire and emergency service personnel in positions of authority who have an opportunity to exercise leadership.
Students attending any or all of these classes will receive a Connecticut Fire Academy and a National Fire Academy certificate for each completed class. All classes will be held at the Connecticut Fire Academy 8:30 a.m. — 4:30 p.m.
Lunch included each day.