Open Access CPG Calendar
The 'Open Access' Career Progression Gateway (CPG) calendar means that we will be running CPG assessments for candidates for a specific level of promotion on specific dates. Any FRS can join these events
Why promotions are impacting culture in your FRS
Promotion processes are rarely popular, and approaches can shift like the tide as services struggle to find the holy grail of what will a) cause least complaint from candidates and rep bodies b) be manageable for overworked admin teams c) fit the budget and d) identify leadership potential appropriately. (The pressures of a-c can leave point d. somewhat at the back of the queue.)
FRS Promotions Best Practice: A Blueprint
FRS’s are doing their very best but a great number are struggling with their promotions processes. There are a mix of key factors:
The top 4 mistakes when giving feedback on a promotions process and how line managers can avoid them
Having spoken to many candidates who have experienced both internally delivered feedback, and a developmental feedback session with our team, here are the 4 issues which seem to cause the greatest difficulties with internal feedback sessions, and some tips for making it easier and more effective for all involved.
Think your Fire Service can’t afford the CPG? You might be wrong
It’s easy to focus on what the costs would be to the Service of using an external provider such as VCA to run promotions processes, but what about the costs of not doing so, particularly in light of continued scrutiny of FRS fairness, ethics and effectiveness?
Career Progression Skills Workshops
What happens if certain individuals aren’t managing the assessment exercise well? What if they aren’t demonstrating the behaviours effectively, not because these aren’t the approaches they usually apply in the workplace, but because they aren’t using the opportunity provided in the CPG to present evidence in a way which demonstrates their full potential?
Fire Service ‘Best Practice Bite-sized’ – Connection and Collaboration with FRS Colleagues
We are really excited to be able to bring you more regular and accessible opportunity for connection and collaboration with colleagues from across the FRS through our new online Best Practice Sharing Events.
Fire & Rescue Service Review of 2023 from VCA’s perspective
At VCA we are in the privileged position of having been closely involved with the FRS across the UK for over 20 years, whilst remaining impartial and independent. Here is our perspective on this year from the work we have been engaged in.
Valid Results, Transformational Leaders and Big Plans for the Fire Service in 2024
The number of Career Progression Gateway (CPG) enquiries and demo’s we are delivering each week is really gathering pace. But why is the CPG getting so much attention now?
The Fire Service High Potential Solution hiding in plain sight
‘Fast-track, talent management, high potential, role jumping, leap frogging’… it’s almost as hard to find the right term for it as it is to work out how to do it!