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Workshop Four: Understanding the culture
Whenever something goes wrong in the fire and rescue service people are quick to blame "the culture".
Often that assumption is right. But what do you know about "fire service culture?"
You cannot touch, see or visualise it. "Fire service culture " is a phenomenom that managers need to understand if they are ever going to change it.
For the FRS to move on it needs a better understanding of how formal and informal cultures work.
More importantly for change and efficiency to really be embedded then the informal culture needs to be wedded to the formal culture not act as a pocket of resistance.
Fore example have you ever wished that you could stop the way that newcomers seem to fit-in with existing customs and practices and forget much of what they offered when they were interviewed for their job?
Are you aware of the complexities at work when women join - how the informal culture operates against their presence?
This workshop is for everyone in the fire and rescue service who needs a briefing on fire service cultures. More importantly the workshop can be designed specifically for you to find outcomes on how to first understand fire service culture and then to work with it.
The whole workshop is research lead and sets out to improve understanding of how informal and formal cultures operate alongside each other - sometimes paralleling beliefs and at other times operating in antagonistic relations.
Particularly suitable for Authority Members and all staff who wish to improve their knowledge of how "fire service culture" works - ideal for those preparing for their ADC's


 

 

"The Service are delighted with the research and reports produced by "Fitting-in. We believe that your original hyphothesis and work undertaken in Merseyside has resulted in a ground breaking piece of work that can only serve to inform the wider fire and rescue communities." 
This is what Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service had to say about the Ethos research, communications and training project (2007)

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