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Executive Skill Series: Exercising Leadership Ethically F0523

Curriculum: Leadership and Executive Development
Delivery type
2-day off-campus
Continuing education units
1.2
ACE recommendation
In the lower division baccalaureate degree category, one semester hour in ethics or critical decision making.

This two-day course provides students with the ability to recognize ethical dilemmas in the context of their environments, apply a decision model to resolve these dilemmas, render ethical decisions, and defend under scrutiny the resulting decisions that were made in an effort to resolve these dilemmas.

This course will become the fourth offering within the Executive Skill Series.

Student pre-course materials and course syllabus:

https://nfa.usfa.fema.gov/ax/pcm/BYOD_Instructions_0523.pdf PDF 128KB
Instructions to download student manual.
https://nfa.usfa.fema.gov/ax/syll/syllabus_f0523.pdf PDF 139KB

Selection criteria

The target audience for all of the Executive Skill Series courses, including this course, are fire and emergency services personnel in positions of authority who have an opportunity to exercise leadership.

An eligible student must be minimally assigned to a supervisory level position (for example, a Company Officer).

Prerequisites

None

Post-course requirements

None

Upcoming offerings

Email or call the official under Contact(s) if you are interested in attending a course.
Dates Availability Location Contact(s) CCP
August 25 - 26, 2022 Cancelled Johnston, Iowa

Don Minks
Special Programs Coordinator
Fire Service Training Bureau
515-727-3424
minks@dps.state.ia.us

Course coordination plan
September 22 - 23, 2022 Johnston, Iowa

Don Minks
Special Programs Coordinator
Fire Service Training Bureau
515-727-3424
minks@dps.state.ia.us

Course coordination plan
November 15 - 16, 2022 Tulsa, Oklahoma

Rodney Foster
Assistant Director
Oklahoma State Univeristy Fire Service Training
405-623-0992
mwc138@gmail.com

Paddy Metcalf
Program Coodinator
Oklahoma State Univeristy Fire Service Training
405-744-7485
pmetcalf@osufst.org

Brock Clark
Training Officer
Tulsa Fire Department
918-596-9411
brockclark@cityoftulsa.org

Course coordination plan
January 14 - 15, 2023 Plainfield, Indiana

Zach Westfall
Program Manager
Indiana Department of Homeland Security - Fire Academy
317-464-0965
zwestfall@dhs.in.gov

Course coordination plan
February 9 - 10, 2023 Forsyth, Georgia

Ike McConnell
Director
Georgia Fire Academy
478-999-3467
imcconnell@gpstc.org

Jorge O. Roque Jr.
Instructor
Georgia Fire Academy
478-993-4685
jroque@gpstc.org

Course coordination plan
August 21 - 22, 2023 Columbia, South Carolina

Mike Dunlap
Education Specialist/State NFA Coordinator
SCFA
803-896-9842
Mike.Dunlap@llr.sc.gov

Bonita Watters
Curriculum Manager
SCFA
803-896-4074
Bonita.Watters@llr.sc.gov

Course coordination plan

Student comments

Good foundation of identifying ethical issues.

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800-238-3358

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