ICs: Command is a perishable skill with Nick Martin
Episode description
How would you grade your most recent Incident Commander’s performance?
Solid or...timid?
Solid is an IC who has been trained and seasoned—and one more element: practiced.
Timid is someone who is maybe trained, but not especially seasoned, or inexperienced, and especially – a little scared.
They’re afraid someone’s going to get hurt or killed.
Today’s guest argues that a timid IC is worse than simply inefficient: they’re incompetent.
That’s what Nick Martin posted on Facebook recently. If you want to see the post, it’s linked at code3podcast dot com slash afraid. It’s one of five in a series on nervous ICs.
Nick is a Battalion Chief with the City of Salisbury Fire Department in North Carolina. Before that, he served as the Chief of Training for the City of Columbia, South Carolina and as a Lieutenant with the District of Columbia Fire Department.
He started with the fire service 1994 in his hometown, Swarthmore, PA.
Nick founded and runs Combat Ready Fire, which offers a variety of firefighting and fire leadership courses.