MCS conducted Moving IMT Decisions through Intent into Action at the 2014 Rocky Mountain IMT Meeting in Cheyenne, WY, on April 10, 2014. Eighteen primary and trainee members of RMIMT2A’s C&GS received certificates for the course.
Conducted in a workshop format, the four-hour course applies the principles of mission command to incident management and includes content from MCS’s Intent into Action: Organizational Leadership for the Command and General Staff (L-480/S-420) program.
Using mission command principles, the program focuses on a set of core processes that promote clear and concise leader’s intent as the foundation for aligned and adaptable action on the incident. During the training, participants learn frameworks for making decisions by developing clear priorities and intent. Working in teams in a simulation exercise, participants work to build a valid common operating picture. They then work to develop and effectively communicate intent (task, purpose, end state) that is both actionable and flexible at the field level.
MCS has conducted this workshop at the last two AHIMT Association conferences. Last year, the Alaska IMTs led the way at their team meeting by running the workshop for the first time at an annual team meeting.
