Pre-Conference Workshops: Monday, October 19

Forged to Lead - Fire Chief's Pre-Con
11:30 am - 5:00 pm

This workshop is a leadership crucible—not a lecture. Fire Chiefs will engage in hands-on application, debate, and real-world problem solving across four interconnected areas: culture, pre-resilience, succession planning, and high performance. Each module builds toward practical outcomes, ensuring participants leave with actionable strategies tailored to their organization. $45 fee to participate, includes lunch

By the end of the workshop, participants will:

  • Define organizational culture and their role as its chief architect
  • Apply the Trust–Alignment–Performance framework to a current challenge
  • Differentiate pre-resilience from reactive approaches and identify an upstream intervention
  • Evaluate their succession pipeline and identify a targeted development action
  • Use a five-element high-performance playbook to address a performance issue
  • Commit to three concrete actions to implement within 30 days

Company Officer Roles, Responsibilities, and Expectations
1:00 - 4:00 pm

This pre-conference workshop will provide an interactive discussion for company officers or for those moving into a company officer role discussing topics such as:  expectations of a company officer, earning trust and respect, crew coordination, shores, company training, physical fitness, informal leaders, how to motivate, managing work/rest cycles, team building, creating crew traditions, investing in growth and development, attitude, crew's PIO, interactions with other shifts, performance evacuations, tailboard talks and more.  $35 fee to participate

Colorado Fire Training Officers Association (CFTOA) Pre-Con
9:00 am - 4:00 pm 

Agenda Coming Soon

Hosted by the CFTOA, we'll take a deep dive into the training topics affecting our officers today.

QUESTIONS?  Contact Assistant Chief Mike Scott at mscott@grandfire.org or Training Chief Don Koogle at don.koogle@durangofire.org.