Incident Leadership: Applying the Art of Command and Control in Changing Environments (CA-010-PREV)

Incident Leadership offers hands-on experience in directing, controlling, and monitoring resources during emerging all-risk incidents. Multiple learning cycles and numerous perspectives provide students with opportunities to learn, practice, and improve leadership skills and to build recognition cues for future assignments.

Why Incident Leadership?

Recent incidents – from catastrophic wildland-urban fires to hurricanes to terrorist attacks – demonstrate the need for emergency responders to be well schooled in National Incident Management System (NIMS). Indeed, the National Response Plan obligates responders to be prepared to use NIMS for complex incidents.

Traditional NIMS training, however, offers few opportunities to practice the leadership behaviors required to lead and work with diverse groups – others on the Incident Management Team, resource teams, cooperators, and the public. This five-day program provides hands-on practical experience in the skills and techniques necessary to lead successfully during emerging all-risk incidents.

Incident Leadership is a must-have program for leaders seeking qualification as a Division/Group Supervisor or Incident Commander Type 3 (ICT3). This program is critical for leaders transitioning from leading at the leader-of-people level to the leader-of-leaders level. Incident Leadership is also beneficial for unit leaders who work at the leader-of-leaders level during an incident. In addition, operations and unit leader personnel working on Type 2 and Type 1 teams will find this program a valuable refresher and tune-up opportunity.

Ensuring Effectiveness

This experiential, high-intensity leadership program helps participants learn strategies for issues associated with quickly building operational synergy in temporary teams: managing diverse resources, interfacing with community cooperators, and leading operational planning extending into a strategic timeframe.

The program centers on a multi-day, 16-hour simulation mirroring, in real time, the progression of a growing emergency incident. Through several learning cycles, participants team together and learn from each other as they work through problems and issues in a time-critical environment.

Participants come away with firsthand experience in the human behaviors required to put ICS into practice. They gain confidence in their ability to hit the ground running as an incident commander or as part of an incident management team. This program builds new trigger points and recognition skills that are directly transferable to future operations and incidents.

Mission-Centered Solutions has modified this program for different audiences based on the nature of the threats and special challenges they face. Versions are available for several groups: wildland fire, emergency services and support IMTs such as the U.S. Coast Guard or regional IMTs, and municipal fire departments.

Program Enrollment

Program delivery is arranged by organizations, with clients sponsoring each week-long program for their workforce and cooperators. Open enrollment is not offered at this time. Programs are priced based on enrollment of 18 students and are presented at the client’s location.

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