Set Your Leaders Up for Success

An evidence-based framework for promoting and developing 9-1-1 leaders, purpose-built for the ECC. Assessment and development pathways are available now for shift supervisors, with trainers and directors coming soon.
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Hiring First Time Leaders Is Difficult

First-time leaders have an outsized impact on every 9-1-1 center. PROMOTE is a purpose-built, evidence-based assessment that identifies leadership potential, measures readiness, and creates personalized development pathways, with optional certifications that validate learning and demonstrate readiness for the role.

The result: leaders who start strong, build culture, and keep telecommunicators engaged and retained.

Beyond Generic Training and Consultants

PROMOTE was developed from the ground up to assess leadership attributes needed in 9-1-1 centers.

Objective Data on Leadership Potential

PROMOTE measures the leadership skills technical metrics miss such as composure under pressure, conflict resolution, and coaching ability.

Immediate Access to Personalized Training Pathways

PROMOTE integrates with TRAIN to deliver a personalized learning path for every developing leader. Add a certification program to validate learning progress.
Use Cases

How Centers Use PROMOTE

PROMOTE helps you identify and develop the leaders who will shape the culture and future of your center.

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Candidate Assessment

Identify the strengths and skill gaps of each candidate and compare with your benchmarks to select the best leaders.

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Leader Development

Post-assessment customized learning paths help you train new and existing leaders to close their skill gaps, and validate their progress with an optional certification.

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Evaluate Candidates from other Centers

Evaluating your existing team is challenging enough. With PROMOTE, you now have objective data on applicants from other centers.

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Succession Planning & Personnel Development

Invest in your best performers to keep them engaged with your center, and plan for future leadership openings.

CommsCoach PROMOTE: Objective Evidence for Every Promotional Decision in 9-1-1

CommsCoach PROMOTE brings the same evidence-based assessment rigor used to select air traffic controllers to the unique supervisory ranks of the ECC. After testing,  every assessment is paired with a  personalized development pathway that close the gaps it surfaces.

Whether you're evaluating a promotion candidate, developing a current supervisor, or building your leadership pipeline from within, PROMOTE gives you the data to make decisions you can defend, and the tools to develop the leaders your center needs.
Assessment Categories

What PROMOTE Measures

Validated, research-based behavioral dimensions identified as most consequential for first-line leadership in high-stress, 24/7 emergency operations.

Decisive Operational Command

Instantly pivots between crises without losing focus, knows when to debrief staff after critical calls, and maintains strategic oversight during mass casualty incidents.

Composure & Cognitive Resilience

Stays calm under pressure, understands how chronic stress affects the brain, and models healthy recovery habits that validate staff emotions while upholding center standards.

Team Stewardship & Culture Leadership

Builds psychological safety, disrupts toxic behavior, resolves conflict early, and coaches staff through non-punitive feedback to grow a healthy, high-performing team.

Integrity & Ethical Decision-Making

Applies fair, consistent standards across all shifts and personnel, and takes full ownership of decisions even when they are later scrutinized.

Operational & Procedural Mastery

Demonstrates deep knowledge of dispatch operations and applies procedures accurately and reliably across all situations and conditions.

Leadership & Organizational Influence

Effectively advocates for the dispatch center's needs with command staff and administration, building team loyalty by visibly championing their interests.

PROMOTE integrates with TRAIN

9-1-1 Purpose-Built training delivery

Beyond the Score

PROMOTE doesn't stop at assessment. Every individual receives a personalized development pathway, built specifically for 9-1-1 centers by renowned 9-1-1 training subject matter experts.

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Scenario-based Simulations

Leadership-focused simulations that place candidates in supervisory situations unique to the ECC environment — conflict resolution, critical incident comand, and team coaching under pressure.

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Targeted In-depth Courses

Assignable learning modules mapped to each leader's individual development gaps, with required completions, built-in knowledge checks, and an optional certification program that validates readiness.

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Structured Coaching Pathways

Assessment results feed directly into coaching frameworks that supervisors and directors can apply in ongoing 1:1's and performance conversations — keeping development active, not just documented.

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Case Studies

Customer Stories

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O’Fallon Police Department

Learn how the O’Fallon Police Department 9-1-1 Communications Center partnered with CommsCoach to improve call compliance to 94% in under a year.
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FAQs

What are behavioral dimensions are identified as important to test for first-line leadership in high-stress, 24/7 emergency operations? +

The best leadership indicators include: Decisive Operational Command, Composure and Cognitive Resilience, Team Stewardship and Culture Leadership, Integrity and Ethical Decision-Making, Operational and Procedural Mastery, and Leadership and Organizational Influence.

What are the best ways to test for 9-1-1 leadership potential? +

Use testing on behavioral dimensions identified as important to test for first-line leadership in high-stress, 24/7 emergency operations.

How do you decide who to promote to supervisor in a 9-1-1 center? +

The most defensible promotion processes combine performance history with structured assessment of leadership-specific competencies: how a candidate handles conflict, coaches under pressure, maintains composure during critical incidents, and holds consistent standards across a team.

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