Welcome to Fireline!

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Fireline Training & Consulting is a leader in the effort to elevate workplace writing standards and skills. Fireline offers meaningful and context-relevant writing seminars to help people in the workforce make simple, subtle, and high impact improvements to their professional writing skills.

Mary Sovick, Fireline’s founder, has developed writing training and taught workplace writing skills to a variety of workplaces since 1996. Mary is a nationally recognized speaker, trainer, consultant, and author. Mary is a retired firefighter from South Metro Denver Fire & Rescue. She is an adjunct instructor at the National Fire Academy, Colorado State University, and at various community colleges across the country.

	Upcoming Seminars
	"Ignite Your Writing" seminars
	Conference Seminar Speaker
	Program development services
	Individual tutoring
	Editing services
	Development or evaluation services for graded, written components on promotional exams
	Consulting services

2012 Seminars

Colorado

Professional Writing Skills for Company Officers

February 21 and 24 | South Metro Fire Rescue Authority

Best Practices for Workplace Email

February 29 | Larimer County Government

Strengthening Report Narratives

March 6, 7, 9 | Boulder Fire Department

Best Practices for Workplace Email

March 8 | Poudre Fire Authority

Basic Business Writing Skills for Fire & EMS

Same one-day class offered in two locations

May 22, 9:00 - 4:00 | North Metro Training Center | Map
May 24, 9:00 - 4:00 | Arvada Training Center | Map

Best Practices for Fire & EMS Report Narratives

May 23, 9:00 - noon | North Metro Training Center | Map

Fee for May 22-24 sessions:

Full-day sessions: $99
Half-day session: $69
Both sessions: $158

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Basic Business Writing Skills for Fire & EMS (Officer Development)

June 1 | Glenwood Springs Fire Department

Wyoming

Basic Business Writing Skills for Fire & EMS

April 26 | Campbell County Fire Department

To register for any seminar, or for more info, contact:
Mary Sovick
Fireline Training and Consulting
Phone: (970) 493-1414
Fax: (970) 493-7207
E-mail: msovick@frii.com

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Meet Mary Sovick
owner of Fireline Training & Consulting, course developer, and instructor. Click on the picture for more info on Mary's background and qualifications.

The Report Card ¨

Shorten report-writing time while including more complete information. Eliminate misspelled words. This handy, two-sided reference card (4" x 11") will guide you through the narrative portion of run reports. Learn more here

Tidbits

Food for thought:
"The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained." ~ Zig Ziglar

Client Feedback

"Thank you for offering the class on e-mail. It was very helpful and well-done. I enjoyed it and learned a lot."

"As a training chief in northern Virginia, I plan to seek Mary's services for additional seminars. Very well done." Joe Bailey, Virginia Fire Chiefs Conference read more comments

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