User:Brett Wuth/Working Notes/2012-12-01 leadership training

Authors

 * Brett Wuth

Scope

 * working with other SAR groups
 * working with other agencies
 * merging field teams

Addresses

 * Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug21
 * General training - every team needs a leader.
 * Renew training for all members, including senior members, that whenever together must identify a team leader.
 * Critiques/2010-08-24/Sug10
 * clarify roles and command structure/hierarchy when several agencies are involved in/responding to the same incident.
 * Critiques/2009-05-05/Sug3
 * Merging teams can cause confusion in command/reporting structure. Suggest clear language of merging vs. working together. Suggest switch to single FRS channel for new team.
 * need clear language of team designations, designation of combined team
 * need clear designation of combined team leader
 * overhead team can make effort to always have team leader designated
 * can practice developing leadership

Objectives
At the conclusion of this lesson the participants:
 * will demonstrate the ability to
 * call for clarity of leadership
 * assume leadership
 * resolve issues of leadership between themselves and others
 * hand-off leadership

Time Plan
Total Time: ?? minutes

Introduce topic title

Introduce Instructor

Present Objectives

present outline of ICS org structure
 * Inicident Commander
 * Operations Section Chief
 * Planning Section Chief
 * Logistics Section Chief
 * Finance/Admin Section Chief
 * Ground Search Team Unit (Leader, Members)
 * Call Out Team
 * Agency Executive

When position is not filled, the next position up does the job.


 * May not be enough work for a dedicated person
 * May not be enough people yet


 * Expand and collapse as needed

Scenario

Sunday morning May 19, 2013, Victoria Day weekend, Beautiful weekend.

PCSAR gets a call from RCMP upon a report of a 5-year girl missing from a random campsite on the Carbondale river.

PCSAR is tasked. A search manager is in charge. Call-out has been activated for ground searchers, quads, and road vehicles.

Who do you report to?
 * when requested
 * when signed in
 * when assigned field task
 * when debriefed
 * when available for reassignment
 * when released, returning home

Principles
 * everybody reports to somebody
 * everybody report to only one person -- Unity of Command
 * everyone on the incident reports up the chain eventually to the same person - Chain of Command

Why?
 * Efficiency in an emergency

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Reference Material
Related lesson plans:
 * 2000-12-05 being in charge/Lesson plan
 * 2009-03-03 mtg/Overhead tabletop