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Executive Skills Series: Exercising Leadership to Facilitate Adaptive Change S0521

Training Specialist


Derrick Sawyer
301-447-1247

Delivery type


Online - Instructor Led (Live)

Continuing education units


1.1

ACE recommendation


In the upper-division baccalaureate degree category, 1 semester hour in leadership, management or organizational behavior.

This online, instructor-led (live) course is presented live via ZOOM for 2 consecutive weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. or 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Eastern). Students must have the technical capability to use ZOOM.
This 2-day course is to provide skills that individuals in positions of authority can use to exercise leadership when confronted with adaptive challenges. The goal of this course is for participants to develop an understanding of skills associated with exercising leadership to resolve adaptive problems — those problems where the solution is either unknown or requires significant change, or both.

Apply online

Pre-course materials and course syllabus

Instructions to download student manual.: https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/ax/pcm/BYOD_Instructions_0521.pdf PDF 179KB

The target audience is 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).

Incident Command System (ICS)-100-level and ICS-200-level training. Preferred courses are Q0462 and Q0463, available through NFA Online. Chief's signature attests that the applicant has completed this required training.