INCIDENT COMMAND TRAINING
A hub for all things Effective Command Canada
EFFECTIVE COMMAND CANADA
Effective Command is an Incident Command professional development program for officers at all ranks. It provides an immersive training environment that enables dynamic, realistic development of Fire Officers, along with a behavioural-marking assessment tool to record competence and generate organizational KPI data.
Through training courses, workshops, and assessment tools, Effective Command helps Fire Departments deliver the highest-quality training for their officers.
BUILDING COMMAND CAPABILITY ACROSS YOUR DEPARTMENT
A sustainable approach to Officer Development.
The Effective Command Methodology enables departments to implement a structured command development system while building internal capacity to sustain officer competence over time.
A complete system for developing fire service command capability.
The Effective Command Methodology provides a structured pathway for developing Incident Command capability across all officer levels.
The system combines online theory, structured officer development, internal training capability, and formal assessment to develop confident, capable operational leaders.
The Effective Command Toolkit supports this methodology: an online platform that provides training resources, a scenario library, evaluation tools, and reporting to support officer development.
THE EFFECTIVE COMMAND METHODOLOGY
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS ALIGNMENT
Effective Command (Lamb et. al. 2021) was created as a behavioural marker framework in 2015 by two academic/fire service practitioners (UK and Australia), to address the disconnect between academic research and its application within the Fire Service.
The aim was to develop a robust strategy to implement non-technical skills in Fire Officer training. It focuses on five key behaviours: Situational Awareness, Decision-making, Objective setting, Action behaviours and Review. The Assessment tool has been cross-mapped to all relevant NFPA standards (1021 Fire Officer I-IV, 1521, 1026, 1561).