The Long Beach Fire Department (California), developed a program to foster and improve the development of future fire department managers who are promoted from within the department. A 10-day orientation program was developed. The competency-based program featured a mix of management-leadership training (the nature of leadership, personnel management, and employer-employee relationships); technical instruction (records and reports, fire strategy, airport operations, and fire prevention); and practical problem solving (personnel counseling, leaderless group problems, and fire simulator problems). The program included daily staff preparation meetings, daily tests based on the previous day's class, debriefing meetings at the end of each day, and daily evaluations. (This report describes the development of the curriculum, the results of pretests and posttests administered to officers who completed the orientation program, and an evaluation of the program's effectiveness. Appendixes include the training assessment questionnaire, project goals and activities, pretest/posttest, daily tests, daily evaluations, course outline, sample lesson plans, and steering committee recommendations.) (MN)