Task Group Members: Brenda Johnson, Maureen Hanson, Carla Schamber, Nancy Shaff , Savanha Justice

SUCCESSIONAL PLANNING

Succession Planning Task Group: Result of the 2014 Incident Business AARIssue: Shortage of Incident Management Personnel in FinanceChallenges/Needs:

Increase the presence of local district personnel on an incident

Include all agencies in Mentoring Programs Increase training, exposure, and on the job

training with finance folks

PURPOSE

Determine priority needs Identify Barriers to ParticipationIdentify alternatives Develop a mentoring planEffective use of existing performance

system

EXPECTATIONS OF TASK GROUP

Develop “Succession Planning” plan for finance

DELIVERABLE

Sent survey to the Incident Business Committee with the expectation that it would be sent across the region to various agencies.

Responses from 179 people including Forest Service, BLM, DNR, and ODF.

SUCCESSION PLANNING SURVEY

85%

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Are you interested in Incident Finance?

Yes No

RESULTS

For the type of assignments preferred the majority of responses had interest in both local and off unit.

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Positions with the most amount of qualified persons: 1. Personnel Time, 402. Equipment Time, 393. Time Unit Leader, 17

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWINGPTRC, EQTR, COMP, ICPI, COST, PROC, TIME

Positions with the least amount qualified persons:1. ICPI, 652. COMP, 56 3. Finance Chief 55, Procurement

Leader 54

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Which of the following are barriers to your participation in incident support

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1. Lack of Current Qualifications2. Being away from current

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3. Being away from home

TOP 3 BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION

Provide More Training and information to all employees Example: Home unit fi re qualifications fair. Show interested employees how to get involved and qualified in fi re positions.

Utilize data received in the surveyCreate a contact list matched with requested training. The information from the contact list will then be provided to each individuals local unit to help with the mentoring process.

Encourage those who need training to find their local training offi cers for opportunities (check with FMO or AFMO), and work with dispatch to ensure they are shown as available in ROSS.

Work with finance chiefs from teams to encourage training opportunities.

BARRIER 1: LACK OF CURRENT QUALIFICATIONS

Gain support from supervisors Brenda will present topic at the Spring FALT meeting. Incident Business Committee will talk about ways to get

this information to all of the agencies, not FS specific. Flexibility to work on home unit work at fi re camp if

time allows. Case by Case basis.

Consider: Job on the incident Fire needs to be a priority.

BARRIER 2: BEING AWAY FROM CURRENT JOB/HOME UNIT WORKLOAD

When E-ISUITE is up and running in 2016 more virtual opportunities will be available. Will allow more flexibility to work from home. Pursue as an alternative to the way we currently do finance. If there is interest in working from home using E-ISUITE it is

good to get involved in training now

Utilize the remote and offsite authority as stated in the Interagency Incident Business Management Handbook Details in Chapter 10-10

BARRIER 3: BEING AWAY FROM HOME

GROUP:Brenda will take this information to the Spring FALT

meetingSlideshow will be available online on the R6 IB websiteSurvey responders who showed interest will be put on

a mailing list and attached to the home unit they are associated with for current IB information and opportunities.

Group will continue to work on this topic. Succession Planning is an ongoing process.

Everyone:Spread the word about positives of being involved in

Incident Finance

NEXT STEPS

QUESTIONS?