IST-03 Motivating Firefighters  6 Hours   $35.00

Instructor:  Chad Abel, Division Chief, Fishers Fire Department

Have you ever stopped to think about what ninety percent of our job as firefighters really is?  It is preparing for something that may never happen.  However, when it comes time to go to work, our performance may mean the difference between life and death.  Yet, many firefighters stop being interested in learning new skills or refining the old ones.  As a fire service instructor, you indirectly affect every incident that your department responds to.  How you interact with your firefighters is crucial to the operation.  This one day workshop is designed for both new and well seasoned fire service instructors.  Come join us as we discuss what motivates the new firefighter to learn and why that diminishes with time.  We will discuss techniques to identify learning types, methods for reaching all of them, and discover ways to create realistic training environments.