CAFC Leadership Development Initiative
The CAFC Leadership Development Initiative can help you to enhance your leadership potential or the leadership capacity of your department through its self assessment guides and leadership development services.
CAFC Leadership Framework
The CAFC Leadership Framework has 24 leadership competencies categorized into eight leader outcomes to guide personal learning, leadership assessment, succession planning and department training. Click here for a full report on the development of the CAFC leadership Framework
The CAFC Leadership Profiles were created to help individuals to conduct self assessments or supervisors to guide member development. Download a free self assessment guide by clicking on the appropriate leader role:
- Strategic Leader responsible for Department
- Operational Leader responsible for operational aspects of departments
- Tactical Leader responsible for teams
- Service Leaders who provide – Career or Volunteer
Leadership Development Services
Gordon McIntosh, CAFC Leadership Development Coordinator can customize a proposal for you to make use of the CAFC Framework – (250) 655-7455 or gmcintosh@cafc.ca
- Customized leadership model linked to department strategy through the active engagement of department members
- Rapid start approach using the CAFC Framework to assess the department’s leadership capacity and training needs
- Leader assessment with the CAFC Leader Profiles to help members to target their leadership learning
- Leader development using real time challenges to learn and develop fire service leadership competencies
The Leadership Development Initiative is proudly sponsored by Motorola.
The Official Canadian memorial pin developed by The Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation and approved by the CAFC. 
