
The Promotion Playbook
A Proven Path to Your Fire Department Promotion
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Will Stauff
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By:
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Joshua Wells
About this listen
Are you a firefighter looking to advance your career with a job promotion but feel stressed out, overwhelmed, or even confused with the entire process?
The good news is that you’re not alone. Promotional tests within the fire service industry are highly stressful, remarkably competitive, and infrequent. The Promotion Playbook will guide you step by step to assessment center victory. This book reveals the unique story of one firefighter's journey to successful promotion in a very informative and easy-to-understand way. Here’s a quick sneak peek of what you’ll find inside this career-transforming guide:
- The seven strategies needed for promotion success (with practical applications)
- The four essential skills you need to develop for any assessment center
- A "GameDay" toolbox with helpful guidelines and exclusive templates that you can use for common assessment center scenarios
The Promotion Playbook will help your fire department promotional test preparation with the following:
- Practical tools, drawings, and diagrams to apply what you learn to the most common firefighter scenarios
- A firefighter's guide to developing your fire service leadership
- Firefighter essentials to help you thrive with your firefighter exam prep
- Preparation guidance for your promotional interview and written exam
Other benefits of listening to The Promotion Playbook include:
- The content is flexible and applies to any position, from rookie firefighter to fire service instructor to fire chief
- Firefighter exam preparation and promotional process guidance
- Fire department assessment center, emergency simulation templates
- Written by a firefighter for firefighters, so there is no fluff or overcomplicated jargon
- Improve fire department strategic planning by improving your communication skills
- Improve firefighter fitness by applying the seven strategies to other areas of your life
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Jwells49
- 10-23-23
A comprehensive approach to your promotional test
This book is not the typical firefighter promotional book about fire tactics, or fire ground operations.
This books takes an authentic approach to what is really required to succeed in your test.
It helps develop the right mindset, strategy and skills to ensure you adequately prepare for your promotional test.
It follows the journey of one experienced firefighter who learns how to navigate a promotional test and come out on top. Then it provides simple tools to develop a plan for parts of test that are often overlooked.
This books is an essential addition to the required text books for your test.
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- William Stauff
- 01-06-23
excellently narrated awesome info
really enjoyed this highly recommend. great info on how to succeed as a firefighter.
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- Jeffrey p kluckman
- 01-19-25
no specific info. topics mentioned i found to be nothing special. any testing book has same concepts
all the info in this book is all the same everywhere. put in the work, dont get overwhelmed and take small bites, make a plan. quote lots of other peoples sayings, etc. each chapter is of something then the next chapter is a story (like Norman) about whatever he just talked about. The author speaks and sums up everything that was just said previously and he says "uh" and "um" a lot.
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