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Firefighter Promotional Tests
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FireTEAM ©
Promotional Systems
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Ergometrics' Approach to Fire Promotion
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FireTEAM Promote can help with decisions that will affect a fire department far into the future.
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Promotions are among the most far reaching decisions that fire chiefs make. The future of every department depends on the quality of its upcoming management.
Promotions are also the most sensitive of all management activities in terms of impact on operations and morale. All experienced managers know that the disappointment of rejection is a predictable injury to team mentality. Promotions should be addressed carefully with effective measures in place to address possible side effects of conducting a promotional process.
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Ergometrics' Promotional Philosophy
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Preview whether a promotional candidate is likely to be a positive or negative influence on station internal relations.
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- Fire command staff need generic management skills, as well as technical expertise. To maximize test validity and fairness, the full range of factors critical for job success should be covered.
- Promotional methods should be based on job analysis and conform to federal and local guidelines concerning fair employment practices.
- Promotional methods should be well designed to provide information that will differentiate among the candidates in a fair, effective and meaningful way.
- The intended purpose of each portion of the process should be clear. Criteria, based on consensus of expert opinion, should define what is considered good and poor performance on any tests or other evaluations.
- All exercises and evaluations should be administratively feasible and should promote candidate acceptance of the process.
- Raters and other participants should be well trained to consistently provide the same opportunity for each candidate to perform well.
- Evaluations of current performance, if used, should be job-related, behaviorally specific, and preferably conducted with a facilitator to ensure fairness, thoughtful decisions and defensibility.
- Candidates should be treated, throughout the process, in a manner that is helpful, professional and encourages organizational development.
- An active design goal should be that those who are not promoted will come away from the process retaining pride and desire to excel in their current positions and their occupational field.
- Helpful debriefing should be available to speed organizational recovery from the predictable disappointments of promotional processes.
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Ergometrics Promotional Services and Options
1. Choice of approaches:
- Recommended packages for various promotional levels.
- Customized packages with components picked by your department.
- New components created specifically for your department.
2. Our top professionals, highly experienced and well regarded in the field, provide consultation to your department in all phases of the promotional process.
3. We have hundreds of validated supervisory test items and exercises from which to choose or modify for better fit. Ergometrics has unique and sophisticated video-based materials produced specifically for fire promotion.
4. We offer optional services, including test administration, scoring, analysis, cut scores, local validation, rater training and supervision of performance exercises.
5. Ergometrics specifically seeks to promote internal team building and maintain morale among all candidates. Candidate orientation and diagnostics are available.
6. We can provide expert testimony in the event of legal challenge.
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Ergometrics' Test Components Available for Fire Promotion
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Pick and choose the test components that suit your department's needs.
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Video Test Materials
Ergometrics is very well known for its masterful use of video in selection. For fire service supervisory positions, we have a unique battery of carefully designed and elaborately produced video scenarios with over 40 accompanying test questions that address managing employee performance in the fire service. These fire specific test items are multiple choice and provide substantial add-on validity to the written testing process. Video illustrates certain human elements that are impossible to simulate with paper and pencil tests. Our research has clearly demonstrated that it is the combination of intellectual competency, as tested for with written items, and human insight, as tested for with video, that is the basis of great supervision.
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Written Test Item Bank
Ergometrics has a written item bank of over 100 multiple-choice items measuring general practices related to supervision of employees. The items have been criterion-validated in many supervisory job categories and modified to be fire specific. Items from the this up-to-date, high quality, validated item bank are available for off-the-shelf use or can be customized specifically for a department. Topics covered include:
- Motivating Excellent Performance
- Coaching and Counseling
- Delegation and Team Building
- Managing Change
- Working with Other Levels of Management
- Effective Communication
- Decision Making
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Customized Tests
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Choose from a test battery that suits your special requirements.
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Ergometrics' outstanding test writers are available for customized projects, such as, developing written tests that cover your department's policies and procedures or recommended promotional reading material. We are also available to augment any of our pre-developed programs to fit the needs specifically outlined by a department.
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Assessment Center Exercises
We have developed a wide variety of assessment center exercises including all of the most commonly used approaches, such as, in-basket and fire specific tactical exercises. We are available for developing new exercises for organizations that perfectly complement other aspects of examination so that the total information resulting from the process gives a well rounded picture of how candidates compare in terms of potential for excellence.
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Performance-to-Date Assessment
Ergometrics has highly detailed criteria and forms for assessing promotional potential based on performance in the department to date. Depending on department size, there are a number of ways this type of component can be used. For example, supervisors may rate candidates independently or panels may be facilitated in a consensus process. The key to the process is using very clear descriptions of performance differences that are related to success in higher level positions.
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FireTEAM Promote is Surprisingly Affordable!
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As you begin to think of upcoming promotional cycles, contact Ergometrics. We will discuss your situation with you and describe options to fit your circumstances. The FireTEAM Promotional Systems vary in price based on your departments need for customization.
Call (425-774-5700) or write to ERGOMETRICS to begin testing promotional candidates with the nation's best selection tool today. Contact us about a client list for FireTEAM Promote.
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