Description
Thursday, December 7
9:00am – 4:30pm
Hosted by the Buda Fire Dept
209 FM 2770
Buda, TX 78610
Communication skills have an extraordinary impact on leadership effectiveness. Confident, purposeful communicators are far more likely to be successful leaders. The TFCA/On-Demand Leadership Advanced Communication Skills for Fire Officers workshop will deliver immediately usable tools to help officers get the message across to subordinates, improve interactions with peers, and effectively convey important information to supervisors.
Learning objectives of the Advanced Communication Practices workshop
- Effectively leading and communicating with people who are also your friends
- Building consensus among subordinates
- Strategies for keeping leaders on the same sheet of music
- Effectively use methods of persuasion
Testimonials from Texas Fire Chiefs
“Don’t pass up the opportunity to send your people to Geoffrey Tumlin’s TFCA workshops. The sessions are so important and insightful that not only have we sent people to every single class, but we also decided to import the workshops for all our shifts. I recommend these workshops wholeheartedly!”
– Robert Isbell, Round Rock Fire Chief
“Geoffrey Tumlin is a friend of the fire service. He talks about new and important ideas in ways that fire fighters quickly understand, and his ideas make enormous positive differences in fire departments. I’m one of many chiefs who turn to Geoffrey for keen insights, second opinions, and trusted advice.”
– Neil Howard, Rowlett Fire Chief
About the workshop leader: Dr. Geoffrey Tumlin is the president of On-Demand Leadership and the author of Stop Talking, Start Communicating (McGraw-Hill, 2013). Geoffrey earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and his B.S. from West Point. After graduating from West Point, Geoffrey served as an infantry officer in Hawaii. His work has appeared in over 150 media outlets and publications, including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Fast Company, Inc.com, SiriusXM radio, Fox Business, Investor’s Business Daily, andCNNMoney/Fortune.com, and he’s a frequent guest of fire service organizations throughout Texas.