Posts Tagged: Oneida
Now It’s Your Turn.
Last fall I wrote about doing the right thing by getting involved in an organization of firefighters known as Hancock Hope, formed for the sole purpose of helping other firefighters and fire departments in need.
I talked about the struggles of a very rural volunteer fire department in Oneida, Kentucky and of the goodwill of the Newstead NY Volunteer Fire Company who donated a used fire engine to them. It was a team effort with a lot
Read More »Suffolk Selects Schmittendorf for Scholarship Seminar
Tiger Schmittendorf will be the keynote presenter for the Suffolk County Fire Chiefs Council's Scholarship Seminar on Friday - March 27, 2009.
Tiger's "Leadership in the Firehouse" seminar will be held in the Berkner Hall auditorium of Brookhaven National Labs in Brookhaven (Long Island) NY.
The association's 1st Vice President Chief Anthony LaFerrera first heard of Tiger Schmittendorf from his presentation at the FASNY Legislative Conference in October-2008.
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Night at the Museum
Keeping People
Got any bright ideas?
Here's a link to a FirefighterNation discussion started by a firefighter struggling to maintain the membership in his volunteer fire department.
"In my group we have people that come and don't show up for 6 months; people who quit due to other members ill behavior and misconduct - and people who stay and do as they are told.
What do we do to keep members and to have the members come back?"
Join the Recruiters Group on FFN and chime in on the chat: Keeping People
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Please CO-operate. It’s a matter of life and death.
Do the Right Thing
The Lost Act of “Popping In”
Me with my brothers and sisters
Power of the Pen
This article is one in a series of toolkits focusing on recruitment, retention, fire service marketing and leadership.
Here’s the deal: It’s past midnight, I’m 7+ hours past deadline and the piece I’m writing about another county-based recruitment clearinghouse example isn’t ready for publication.
Then I started thinking, this article is for the July issue. July means summertime. Everyone deserves a summer break. So, let’s take the summer off from talking about clearinghouses and discuss some tools you already have in your toolbox: The power of the pen.
Promoting Your Fire Department
Read More »Part 3: Rockland County
This article is one in a series of toolkits focusing on recruitment, retention, fire service marketing and leadership.
Earlier in our discussion of the clearinghouse approach to recruitment and retention, I outlined my theory that there are three levels of recruitment activities I’ve identified as “The Clearinghouse”; “T&E: Training and Education”; and lastly the “Trench Work.”
In discussing the clearinghouse concept, I stated my feelings that the role and responsibility of building awareness as to the need for volunteers falls on regional, state
Read More »Part 2: Samples of Success
This article is one in a series of toolkits focusing on recruitment, retention, fire service marketing and leadership.
In Part 1 of our discussion of the clearinghouse approach to recruitment and retention, I outlined my theory that there are three levels of recruitment activities, three distinct angles of attack, if you will. I identified them as “The Clearinghouse”; “T&E: Training and Education”; and lastly the “Trench Work.”
In discussing the clearinghouse concept
Read More »Part 1: What’s a Clearinghouse?
In previous articles, I’ve attempted to present the fire service with real tools to use in improving their membership process and documentation including annual reports, prospective member guides and the interview process.
Recently, I’ve been working with a group of some 30 fire service leaders to offer solutions to the recruitment and retention challenges of their county’s fire service.
As part of that process, I’ve developed a three-tiered model to address what I call “recruitment and retention
Read More »Death Toll
Here's a hot topic that might set off some fireworks. Who knows, it might even incite a reader to leave a comment.
This is something very near and dear to me and something I feel very strongly about. I've wanted to write about this for a long time and a recent conversation with a friend prompted me to pick tonight to write it. And, now that I have the forum to do so, here goes.
I'll be involved in at least two fire service funerals this week, and hopefully not a third but it's quite possible. In my role as Deputy Fire Coordinator, I've honestly probably attended perhaps hundreds of such Read More »
