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IAFC
The IAFC is pleased to announce the launch of the new iCHIEFS Podcasts. Each month co-hosts Tom Jenkins, Rogers, Arkansas Fire Chief and 2017-2018 IAFC president, and Sheldon Gilbert, ESCI chief executive officer, will discuss hot-button issues with leaders in the fire and emergency service. Episode 1 explores reducing cancer risk for firefighters in conjunction with Safety Stand Down Week, June 16-22.
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Fire Chief
Mentoring has long had its place in the fire service. Ask any firefighter, and they’ll name an individual, a fellow firefighter, officer or instructor who had a significant impact on their development during their career. Where other industries create formal mentorship programs to develop their talent, firefighting mentoring relationships tend to just happen. That doesn’t make them any less ineffective.
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Thrive Global
When coming up with a list of key leadership skills, it’s not uncommon to see phrases like “good communicator” or “strong decision-making abilities” come up. While such attributes are certainly important, another vital trait is often overlooked: empathy.
Empathy is key to connecting with employees and earning their respect — and there are plenty of examples that prove its value.
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Lexipol
Calls involving homeless people and encampments create significant challenges for firefighters and fire departments. In this free webinar, learn how two departments evolved their deployment systems to address these challenges and improve safety for firefighters and unhoused individuals. REGISTER TODAY
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Great Leadership
Accountability. Good employees are accountable. Good leaders hold their employees accountable. Good organizations have accountable cultures. But what does it really mean to be accountable? And what happens when someone isn’t accountable? How leaders deal with non-accountable behavior goes a long way to defining the culture of an organization.
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Harvard Business Review
Many CEOs and CHROs list “culture change” as a top priority. They know their organizations need to become more agile and adaptable to rapid transformations and they want to be able to make good decisions and execute them quickly. Furthermore, they especially want to attract and retain the biggest stars. Building and maintaining a good corporate culture is key to all these aspirations.
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Lolly Daskal
If you are good at your job, you most likely pride yourself on being capable and competent in what you do; you like to do things on your own to make sure that things get done correctly. But that is old school leadership. The new school of leadership is: If you want the job done right, you have to learn how to delegate it properly so that it can be done to the proper standard. Here are ways to successfully delegate and get the job done effectively.
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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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Leadership & Learning with Kevin Eikenberry
It might seem strange for a person who has devoted his life to helping leaders grow and improve to write an article titled “The Insanity of Leadership Development.” My hope is that the title — and the irony — piques your curiosity to read on. The truth is that most organizations want to develop their leaders, but the approaches they continually use yield inconsistent or poor results.
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Chief Executive
Building a great leadership team is hard work, which is made even harder when teams and individual team members struggle to move on from past toxic experiences. Here’s a look at how leadership teams can recover from toxic environments. We start by presenting the symptoms of toxicity and our view on what leads to these unhealthy and unproductive environments, and then we discuss what actions can be taken to help leadership teams recover.
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Forbes
Jonathan Creaghan writes: A quote I developed and often emphasize as a coach is this: “Leadership happens the moment it is required. Miss the moment, and you miss the opportunity to make an impact.“
From my perspective, leadership occurs on a moment-by-moment basis, and the only way to truly have a great impact is through trust. Trust is the glue that keeps the moment heightened.
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Entrepreneur
With the ever-changing pace of technology in business right now, the advancement in our work and the rate of change is quicker than ever before. And with reductions in time-intensive tasks and roadblocks, comes the need to elevate our leadership strategies to keep pace with such change.
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