TFS Volunteer Leadership Development Project Final Report

In 2007 senior staff in Tasmania Fire Service identified a need to enhance retention of volunteers by improving the overall quality of leadership in volunteer brigades. A TFS Volunteer Leadership Development research project was developed in collaboration with the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre Volunteerism Project team at La Trobe University.

This Report summarises and integrates finding from the four Volunteer Leadership Development Project studies: (a) interviews with 12 senior TFS staff; (b) four focus groups with volunteers (23 participants, from 15 brigades); (c) a mail survey of all TFS volunteers (923 respondents); and (d) five focus groups with brigade chiefs (49 participants).