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IAFC
The May 19 deadline is fast approaching to submit your nominations for IAFC Fire Chief of the Year and IAFC Ben Franklin Award for Valor. Both awards will be presented Aug. 8 at Fire-Rescue International in Atlanta.
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Leadership & Learning with Keving Eikenberry
There are nearly as many ways to lead as there are leaders. What we believe and our mindset relating to the role of leading others says much about how we choose to lead. When you bring a coaching mindset to leadership, it will change your approach to many situations. Today, I want to share how your leadership style and approach might change if you approach leading like a coach.
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Fire Chief
One day, a fire chief who is a good friend called me to talk, either for therapeutic reasons or validation that he made the right decision about something. In the end, the phone call may have been therapeutic, but he had certainly not made the right decision. He had reacted emotionally to a situation and felt he had to make an immediate decision.
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 Policy is important across all fire department operations, but there are specific areas where a lack of sound policy creates greater risk. Discover the 5 policy “hot spots” that could be creating trouble for your department and your personnel. DOWNLOAD NOW
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LinkedIn
We can all spot a great employee: dependable, proactive, hardworking, a great leader and a great follower. He or she brings a wide variety of easily defined — but hard to find — skills to the table. Some employees, though, are exceptional. They have skills and qualities that aren't evaluated on performance appraisals but make a huge impact on the individual's performance, the performance of the people around them and the company's results.
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Entrepreneur
Some people automatically draw others closer. They're believed right off the bat and are so likable they can seemingly persuade others of anything. How do charismatic people persuade others to agree to so much? And how can entrepreneurs and others boost their charisma to win more people over with less effort?
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Is your department still managing incidents with a pen and paper or a white board? Tablet Command is a cloud-based incident management system used on an iPad or Smartphone. Watch this 90 Second Video to learn why fire departments across the country rely on Tablet Command.
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Harvard Business Review
Hjalmar Gislason writes: As head of a startup, I always want to make sure everyone on my team understands the vision for what we're trying to achieve. I also want to make sure we're hearing, considering and incorporating everyone's ideas, and acting quickly to iron out problems along the way. So we have a lot of group conversations. A lot. We discuss our mission, goals and the steps it will take to achieve them.
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Leading Blog
It should go without saying that coaching as opposed to just managing people, is the key to developing high-performance organizations and teams. Leaders must be coaches. Any growth but especially growth leading to high-performance requires a degree of discomfort. It is the job of the coach to maintain a healthy discomfort for those on their team.
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Terry St. Marie More Human Leadership
I believe leadership should be more human, because it paves the way for an atmosphere of trust and a culture of accountability, two absolute essentials for success. To put it even more simply, a more human leader needs to be two things that are seemingly at opposite ends of the spectrum: tough and nice.
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Inc.
By now, most employers understand that workplace wellness needs to play some role in their employee engagement strategies. But wellness as we currently think of it falls short. While fitness trackers and healthy snacks programs are good steps forward, we need to move away from thinking about wellness and think instead of overall well-being.
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