IDENTIFICATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF STRATEGIC TRAINING PRIORITIES STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE

This research project resulted in the development and acceptance by key stakeholders of a framework of strategic training priorities for a large urban fire department. The problem was that the department did not possess a set of accepted strategic training priorities. The purpose of the project was to produce a framework of accepted issues and priorities that could be used to focus available resources to achieve goals. This research employed both historical and action research to address the following research questions. What are the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board’s (MFESB) current training obligations? What training obligations exist for the future? How will priorities be accepted? The principal procedures employed form part of action research methodology and historical research focused on significant legislation, commissional reports and literatures. The major outcomes of the research was principally the production of a strategic training priority framework that has been accepted by key stakeholders as a basis upon which to employ available resources to achieve progress towards desired training priority goals