Developing a training program is not an impossible task. Utilizing this basic four-step process will help you on the way to delivering a quality program to your members.
BY RUDY HORIST AND FOREST F. REEDER JR.
As A NEW OR SEASONED TRAINING OFFICER OR instructor, you must have found it difficult to figure out how to put all of the many pieces of the training puzzle together. Developing a program takes time, effort, research, and a lot of introspection into what is happening or not happening within your department. All of that planning takes you away from where you want to be-out there training and working with your firefighters to build and enhance their skills. Is there a magic program out there? Is there help available that will get you out from behind the desk and onto the training ground? Developing a master training schedule may assist you in ensuring you are doing your job and allow you to get back to the basics of training firefighters.
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