Basic 40-Hour Dispatch School
Date/Time
11/18/2024 - 11/22/2024
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern
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Event Description

MACNLOW’s Basic 40-Hour Dispatch School utilizes a unique and practical combination of lecture, personal assessment, small group exercises, skill-building exercises, and role play to cement learning. Our instructors for this course are all highly-qualified, experienced dispatchers or dispatch supervisors.  The cost is $750 per person.  (SNC approved: MNA2022-2466; meets Module I requirements). 

Day One:  Welcome to Dispatch
Duties and Responsibilities, Dispatcher Roles, Technology, Integrity and Responsibility

Day Two:  Professional Interpersonal Communications
DiSC Behavioral Profile, Listening Techniques, Call Control Skills, Stress Handling Techniques

Day 3:  Radio Communications
Police/Fire/EMS calls, Emergency v Non-Emergency calls, Interoperability, Incident Command 

Day 4:  Call Intake and Call Handling
Key Questions - the 6 Ws, Call Sequencing and Clarifying, Over-Rating or Under-Rating the Call, Caller Empathy, Handling Different Types of Calls

Day 5:  Skill Building, Client Services, and Telephone Etiquette
Skill building using all techniques and information from the week; serving the public, dispatch, law enforcement, fire and EMS; doing the job well and politely, making all of us look good!

Location
Virtual Classroom with Live Instruction OR at Eaton County Central Dispatch (In Person)
911 Courthouse Drive
Charlotte, MI 48813

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11/18/2024 - 11/22/2024  


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