Facilitation is a critical skill for coordinating the ideas and contributions of diverse sets of people within organizations. Facilitators play an essential role in helping groups develop consensus on important issues such as ones relative to the elimination of preventable line of duty injury and deaths. This 8-hour workshop is designed to teach participants the skill of facilitation, and to improve on the skills learned elsewhere.

In March 2004, at what is known as the Tampa Summit, over two hundred fire service leaders met to discuss ways to meet the United State Fire Administration's goal to reduce firefighter line of duty deaths by 50% in ten years. This remarkable Summit yielded a unique consensus document, the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives. This workshop will thoroughly review the Initiatives-what they mean and how they can be installed at the fire department level. Participants will have the opportunity to develop "implementation action plans" that can be used as guides for their fire departments. The material for this course was developed by a team of renowned subject matter experts several of whom served on the Charleston Super Sofa Fire Review Team.

Howard Cross is the president and owner of Howard Cross & Associates, a human resources and organizational development consulting company specializing in fire and emergency services interventions. He has extensive experience in organization and human resource development for a large number of private and public sector customers. Mr. Cross is an Adjunct Instructor for the Executive Fire Officer program, National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, MD.

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