Fitch & Associates

Full list of Fitch & Associates results

• Conflict resolution: The secret to a successful team

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  Embracing conflict can help a fire/EMS organization’s team mature and increase organizational productivity

• ‘Be rigorous but not ruthless’: 6 strategies for new chiefs

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  Words of wisdom to help avoid those common pitfalls of taking on a leadership role, aka entering the ‘minefield’

• Understanding fire loss estimates and what it means for fireground operations

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  Estimating fire damage on the spot may affect decision-making about entering structures and depth of overhaul operations

• Doing more with less: Fire department budgets, fiscal responsibility

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  Balancing fiscal constraints and expanding expectations by adopting and communicating sustainable service objectives and outcome measures

• Ready or not, change is coming to the fire service

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  Fire service leaders need to lead the way forward with social, technological and financial adaptations

• Making fire risk assessment real: Using data to inform fireground decisions

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  A case study highlights how data can impact risk assessment and resource deployment models

• Sometimes you have to cut, but don’t cut too deep

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  When cutting expenditures, be careful you don’t put your patients and agency at risk

• Confessions and lessons of a first responder workaholic

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  Five strategies to find a lifestyle that allows you to balance your career, health and relationships

• Lead from the front lines: Care for our caregivers

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  How to recognize signs of stress in personnel and offer support during the COVID-19 crisis

• The 'M' in EMS stands for medical: Tackling fire/EMS challenges

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  Fire service leaders must handle four leadership challenges to maintain an effective fire-based EMS program

• Body armor: The new firefighter PPE

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  Assessing levels of protection, situations in which to don body armor, and active shooter policies and procedures

• 7 ways to prepare your fire department for the next recession

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  Now is the time to take action, before reduced revenues and budget cuts tighten their grip on the balance sheet

• How to achieve operational uniformity with consolidated communication centers

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  Striking the balance between agency independence and operational synergy through conflict resolution, funding and governance

• 3 fire service myths: Data, response times and coverage equity

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  Leaders must acknowledge that some accepted “truths” do not align with reality

• How to improve interagency relationships in public safety

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  Focus on front-line operations, structured scalability and agency-specific enhancements

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