Fire & EMS Leader Pro The job of old firefighters is to teach young firefighters how to become old firefighters!
Tanya Bettridge, a Public Educator/Administrator with the Perth East (ON) Fire Department in Canada, is one of my
Tanya Bettridge
newest LinkedIn connections and she’s a brilliant essayist when it comes to public fire and life safety education. Her latest post on LinkedIn, Pub Ed Lessons from the US Election, is another outstanding piece of prose that’s applicable, not just to fire and life safety education, but to overall communications between a fire and EMS organization and the public it serves.
Here’s a snippet to “whet your appetite.”
For the purpose of this article, agreement with the outcome of the US Presidential election is irrelevant; we can all take away from it a few tips. Whether it’s voting for a candidate or testing a smoke alarm, it all requires someone to communicate, and another someone to receive the communication in a way that prompts an action.
In the spirit of post-election analysis, I’ll break it down by candidate.
