No matter how organized, educated, and professional your department’s training officer is, your company officer is still the perfect person to effectively train your members. This is a fairly bold but dead-on-target statement that career training officers make. Regardless of the type of department you have, company officers have two main responsibilities: to make sure everyone goes home and to train them for the next event.
While differences exist in training, drilling, and education, the core value of any training program is that it directly yields results in getting everyone to come home. You can view training as the initial skill-level awareness or entry-level training into any job/duty area. Drills reinforce learning in an attempt to create skills and knowledge that members can recall and use naturally. The phrase “drill it into your head” comes from this portrayal of the learning process. You can view education as the higher end of the learning process that may provide the critical thinking skills and information necessary to move to the next level of application. Some may even say that this level of learning gets the member ready to move up into the next position.
Company officers influence and interact in all of these types of learning applications. During training, the company officer sets the pace and tone. If the company officer approaches the training session unmotivated and unenthusiastic, the training session will usually mirror that. Training should be an event that members look forward to, and it should be the focal point of the day. In volunteer, paid-on-call, and combination departments, the training session may be the only nonemergency opportunity for members to come togetherso it had better be effective and efficient.
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