Welcome to Fireline!

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

2008 Seminars

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Upcoming seminars

Colorado
	* Basic Business Writing Skills for Fire and EMS
	April 1 8:00 - 4:30	Boulder Fire Department Location: Public Safety Building at 1805 33rd St, Boulder, 80301 More details . . .

	* Best Practices for Workplace Email
	March 20 8:00 - 9:30 AM	Location: Larimer County Employer’s Roundtable Fort Collins Lincoln Center More details . . .
	May 7	Location: Larimer County Human Resources More details . . .

	* Presenter at IAFC’s Fire Rescue International Company Officer Symposium Level 1 - Raising the Bar for E-Mail Correspondence
	August 12 10:30 - Noon	Location: Denver

	Wanted: Better Writing Skills and Simple Methods to Achieve Them
	August 14 1:30 - 3:00	Location: Denver

Maryland
	Fire Service Communications
	April 14 - 25	Location: National Fire Academy

Wisconsin
	Strengthening Fire and EMS Report Narratives
	May 12 - 14	Location: Green Bay Fire Department


	To register for any seminar, or for more info, contact: Mary Sovick Fireline Training and Consulting Phone: (970) 490-2902 Fax: (970) 493-7207 E-mail: msovick@frii.com Register online for select seminars Print and fax or mail Now accepting Visa and MasterCard

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 2001 read more comments

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