The Fire Officer's Guide to Management and Leadership: A Scenario-Based Approach will help aspiring officers develop their critical decision-making skills. The fire service has long emphasized the importance of emergency response size-up: a proper size-up and its associated actions can be the difference between a successful operation and a compromised one.
In order to prepare aspiring officers to take on the challenges of their position before they are officially tasked with handling station issues, we must allow them to practise their decision-making skills. The scenarios in The Fire Officer's Guide to Management and Leadership: A Scenario-Based Approach allow aspiring officers to critically assess various station issues so that they are prepared to make sound judgment calls that result in the best possible outcomes if and when they face similar station issues as chief officers.
