NEW! The New Chief Officer: Real-World Challenges in Township and Joint Fire District Leadership

Description
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.

About the Instructor
Benjamin J. Lovell, CFO, OFC has nearly 30 years of fire service experience and serves as a career battalion chief with the Liberty Township/Powell Fire Department and volunteer Fire Chief of the Big Walnut Joint Fire District in Morrow County. Ben is a retired veteran of the U.S. Army/Ohio Army National Guard with combat deployment experience. His teaching focuses on practical, real-world leadership lessons for fire officers preparing to move into chief officer responsibility.

Lead Instructor
Benjamin Lovell, Battalion Chief, Liberty Twp. and Chief, Big Walnut Joint FD

Fee
$295