S-520 Advanced Incident Management, Unit 1 –Preparing for Success

“Know yourself and seek improvement”

Tony Doty

S-520 Advanced Incident Management exists to provide a pool of highly qualified graduates to serve on National Type 1 Incident Management Teams. This is accomplished through a combination of training, testing, mentoring, and sharing of organizational wisdom with a cadre of professional practitioners.

In accomplishing this, the program will promote national consistency, strategic leadership and continuous improvement in order to advance professional incident management.

Unit1 – Preparing for Success is pre-course work for S-520 Advanced Incident Management. This unit combined with self-assessment and mentoring is designed to enhance your abilities for success prior to attendance and better prepare you to serve on National Type 1 Incident Management Team.

Objectives:

1. Establish a mentor/mentee relationship and develop objectives for that relationship.
2. On multiple complex incident assignments, obtain Type 1 C&G experience while striving to complete your Position Task Book.
3. Define strategic assessment and strategic leadership and its role in the complex incident management environment.
4. Interpret and analyze incident management documents and incident management resources, consistent with the roles and responsibilities of your assigned position.

Unit materials will be available in two stages.

Mentoring and Self Assessment resources are available immediately.

Those pre-selected for the course will be notified when the precourse work is accessible.

Please contact: Deborah Corner (520) 799-8752 with questions about S-520 Advanced Incident Management, Unit 1 – Preparing for Success.