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How the best leaders overcome their own defense mechanisms
Lolly Daskal
Defense mechanisms — the unconscious reactions that protect us from anxiety and internal conflict — are a part of being human. We all have them, and while they frequently do harm, in some situations they can actually be useful. What matters, in life and in leadership, is what we do about them.
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How to grow your company without your constant involvement
Full Focus
Nearly all business owners and executives want to know exactly what they need to do in order to be in a position to walk away without stressing out — even if it's just for a two-week vacation. Others are nearing the time in their lives where they want to make the transition, and they want to do it in a way that doesn't leave a gaping hole in their lives.
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It's time to reimagine employee retention
Harvard Business Review
This is a challenging time for managers. Alongside their day-to-day roles, many are facing a never-ending cycle of reskilling and recruiting on their teams. The need to reskill isn't new, with the OECD estimating that 1.1 billion jobs are liable to be radically transformed by technology in the next decade. However, managers are now being asked to close the skills gap at the same time as they're responding to pandemic-prompted resignations.
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The ResponseMaster® IFS family for custom fire and rescue vehicles combines refined ride quality and rugged design. Superior maneuverability and handling increases safety for the fire fighter and reduces response time in the most demanding conditions.
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Lower your stress, think with clarity and lead with ease
Skip Prichard
Many capable leaders have resigned themselves to pervasive stress and being overwhelmed. They push through with brute force — day after day — in a state of perpetual exhaustion. However, there's a radical alternative, and it's available no matter what the challenges may be.
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Trust and inspire: A mantra for modern leadership
Forbes
"The world has changed. Our style of leadership has not." This is the gist of Stephen Covey's message in his new book, "Trust and Inspire." In our post-pandemic new world of work, hybrid working requires leaders to create high trust cultures, and yet the research cited by Covey shows that command and control, even in an enlightened form, remains the prevailing leadership style of 92% of organizations.
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JW Fishers are specialists in the design and manufacture of underwater search systems. Their product line includes hand held and boat towed metal detectors, marine magnetometers, video systems. side scan sonars, sub bottom profilers and scanning sonar.
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How to leave a leadership legacy
Fast Company
If you were to step down from your position today, how would you be remembered? Would it be for steering the ship through a crisis and coming through stronger? Would it be for your attitude on employee well-being? Would it be for your refreshing transparency and outside-the-box thinking? Would you be remembered at all?
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When every second counts, cell and data reliability is crucial. That’s why T-Mobile®
for Government offers fire departments free unlimited talk, text, and smartphone data—all on America’s largest 5G network. Click to see how our Connecting Heroes® program can help you.
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5 ways to increase your leadership capacity
Forbes
We live in a world that values skill acquisition. Skills are like the best currency in the world; the more you have, the more protected you are for long-term success. Yet the world seems to be disrupting this age-old truth.
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iPlanTables provides Sit-Stand touchscreen workstations for plan reviewers, city planners, GIS and archivist departments. Starting 13 years ago we proudly are the only USA based stand manufacturer the industry. Join over 50 other jurisdictions who utilize our modern technology. “iPlanTables Helps You See the Big Picture”
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Tips for leaders on how to create an employee-first culture
CEOWORLD Magazine
For the first time in years, and perhaps decades, employees have unprecedented leverage in the workplace. Call it the Great Resignation or the Great Reshuffle, many employees are reevaluating everything from their work-life balance to the work they do for businesses. This reprioritization has employees looking to realign themselves with companies that reflect their own values around social responsibility, empowerment and good governance.
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The why and how of dealing with conflict at work
Skip Prichard
Nobody really enjoys conflict, but there are times it is unavoidable and even important. As a leader, you won't be able to make positive changes, in many cases, without some conflict. However, if you avoid conflict rather than dealing with it as a necessary part of business, you can make it much, much worse.
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“The entire world should take this course.” – Fire course attendee. Fire specific curricula for implicit-bias-awareness training is ready for implementation in your jurisdiction. Fair & Impartial Policing, LLC curriculum is based on the modern science of bias and customized to meet the unique challenges facing Fire personnel.
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The most critical ingredient in leadership
Stanford Social Innovation Review
What, above all else, drives leaders to direct or redirect their lives, to tackle seemingly intractable problems, and to stay true to their values in the face of enormous challenges?
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Leveraging the planner as a business tool
Full Focus
Owning a business is an exercise in navigating competing priorities. Team members, clients, contractors and vendors need attention, information and vision. Ideas and opportunities need to be investigated and evaluated, and none of it happens in a vacuum. It happens in the context of a shifting market, industry changes and, of course, the needs of your family.
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10 leadership qualities that will make you a great leader
Lolly Daskal
Every leader is different, with their own style and skills. However, there are some qualities they all share — qualities are essential to success in leadership. In my work coaching leaders around the world, these leadership qualities are the ones I emphasize as most important.
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Easy to handle! The BulldozerFire slips right on the ram,
either end, to give more stabilization
and a bigger contact area.
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Considering independence
Kevin Eikenberry
Personal independence is something to which most would aspire. Groups of people have fought for that independence, and, like anything we consider good, there is more we don't think about.
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3 E's of successful leadership
EnterpriseTalk
To develop into more successful leaders, individuals must be able to empower their teams, envisage their growth in context of business growth and empathize with their challenges, thereby enabling them to execute their best.
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An affordable and easy to use way to organize your department's information and submit incident reports to NFIRS - without breaking your budget.
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How to find and grow emerging leaders
ATD
Contemporary workplaces are characterized by constant changes in technology, processes, market forces, customer needs, talent and leadership. Leaders move up, sideways, leave and retire, so it's important to have a healthy pipeline of prepared leaders to step into key roles and keep your business on track toward its goals.
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GT5000 Terra: Accurately identify and quantify unknown gases or call ‘ALL CLEAR’ at incident sites! All in a compact design with simple touch-screen commands.
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Making your luck
Kevin Eikenberry
Luck, especially good luck, is something many people think others get. We see others with great situations and wish we had their luck, but not everyone feels that way. Some people think of luck as less random and more of something they can create — or at least tip the scales of chance in their favor.
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