The Fire Chief’s Tool Box

Description

This is not another book about how to put the wet stuff on the red stuff. The Fire Chief’s Tool Box presents a clear view of the personal and professional issues affecting a new fire chief and offers tools to address the issues successfully. The Fire Chief’s Tool Box will provide readers with:
• Realistic insight into the knowledge, skills and abilities that every fire chief must have to succeed.
• Guidelines for long-term career preparation.
• An understanding of the job search and selection process.
• A fundamental plan for assuming command.
• An understanding of the importance of the chief’s role as a politician, educator, salesperson and marketer to assure career success.
• Guidance for spouses and families of those who seek to become The Chief.
• A reminder that the primary job of every fire chief is the safety of his or her personnel.
As a future or current chief of any fire department, you will:
• Benefit from the practical, straightforward and common sense advice.
• Discover the thought processes needed to meet the challenges that face every chief.
• Gain insight that will help your family cope with the stresses your job as fire chief will bring to their lives

• Table Of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Credentials, Philosophy And Assumptions
• Career Preparation
• Fire Chief Position Available
• The Job Search
• Researching Position Openings
• Application And Selection
• The Job Offer
• Assuming Command
• The Policy Makers
• Human Resources And Labor Relations/Unions
• Politics
• Standards Of Response Coverage
• Outsourcing
• Why Can’t We Run Government Like A Business?
• Budgets And Service Delivery
• Purchasing
• Ethics
• View From The Fire Chief’s Office
• General Management Tools
• Tools For Improvement
• Beyond Suppression
• Fire Chief, Lessons Learned Climbing The Ladder Review
• Tools For Your Family And Your Personal Values
• The Golden Rule
• Conclusion
• Exercises, Check Lists and Reminders
• References
• Index