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IAFC
The IAFC Volunteer and Combination Officers Section and Executive Fire Officers Section have released a new report, "You're the Fire Chief, Now What? — Guidance for New & Interim Chiefs." The report lays out the key things new or interim fire chiefs need to know and think about during their first 100 days. It also provides advice to help new leaders avoid common mistakes.
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Lolly Daskal
Many leaders make the mistake of thinking they have to resolve every conflict — especially those that affect their team. However, the best leaders know that is not the case; they learn to empower their employees by guiding them, giving them the resources they need and incentivizing them to work things out on their own.
Here are six simple techniques to foster healthy conflict resolution within your office.
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Leadership & Learning with Kevin Eikenberry
There are plenty of reasons people dislike meetings. Just ask and you'll have no trouble getting a long list, but let's not focus on the negative. Instead of listing the problems with meetings, I'd rather talk about creating better meetings. If you use these four ideas, you will have more effective, more focused and overall better meetings. Here are the four ideas in question form. Ask the questions and use your answers to ensure better meetings.
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Fire Chief
At some time in their careers, most emergency responders will have the opportunity to deliver a presentation that involves PowerPoint or a similar program. You might use such a program to deliver training to your fellow firefighters; you might develop a program as part of a public education effort; or perhaps you will be called on to do a presentation to city council or fire department board members. Regardless of the reason, fire service professionals should be comfortable using PowerPoint-type programs to develop and deliver presentations.
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The Business Journals
Billy Arcement writes: No one wants to work for a boss who makes them uncomfortable or is a pain in their rear. We want to go to work and enjoy the relationship with our boss.
Recently, I came across an excellent survey of more than 1,000 full-time salaried employees and their rating of the ideal attributes of a boss. Here are some outtakes from the survey.
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Forbes
Part of leadership is holding others to account when the occasion arises. It's not the most pleasant part, by any means; not many people particularly enjoy having to be the "bad guy" or the "wet blanket," and fewer still have much of an appetite for confrontation and uncomfortable conversations. The mantle of leadership comes with its share of difficult chores, and delivering the occasional harsh rebuke or reprimand when work remains unfinished or targets unmet is what is asked of those who accept the role.
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It’s important for public safety agencies to maintain communications before, during and after a disaster or major incident. In this free on-demand webinar, you’ll learn how you can enhance your agency’s disaster and critical incident communication.
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Skip Prichard Leadership Insights
As leaders, we can only control one thing: how we respond and react to other people. We can't control the weather, politics or the passage of time. Unfortunately, many of us, including myself, tend to get caught up in what we can't control and lose sight of what we can. The discipline of pause is about becoming more intentional and disciplined about the one absolute power we have as leaders.
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Michael Hyatt
When we see people who seem to always make the best decision, it's tempting to believe that they're just smarter than we are, or maybe have a unique gift. Not true! Nobody is born wise.
The good news is that you can acquire wisdom.
Over a lifetime of practice (and the mistakes to go with it), we've distilled our learning into three habits that wise leaders consistently practice.
Put these habits to work for you, and you'll begin to see a huge difference.
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Fast Company
It's no secret that employees and managers need to build great relationships and work well together to create a productive, engaging and encouraging environment. This is also ideal for employee retention; research shows that relationships between employees and managers have a significant impact. That's why we so often hear that employees don't quit their job; they quit their boss. Cultivating a positive relationship is critical to employee satisfaction and retention.
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Bullard’s ReTrak Fire Helmets offer emergency responders a fire helmet with an integrated visor engineered directly from feedback received from firefighters. The ReTrak design provides firefighters with key features including a simple one-handed operation, increased area of protection, and a comfort nosepiece. Visit https://www.bullard.com/retrak to learn more.
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Strategy+Business
There's a difference between having followers and having subordinates, and effective leaders need followers, whose cooperation is built on trust. If you're in a position of authority — as an official, boss or parent — it's easy to convince yourself that you're a leader. But if the people you're in charge of didn't have to do what you wanted, would they do it anyway? Real leaders have voluntary followers. And truly voluntary followers trust their leaders.
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September 29 – October 2 | Aurora, Colorado
The 2019 Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Conference will be dedicated to the lives lost at Columbine, with topics and themes focusing on bridging the Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS, Emergency Management, and Physician responses to active shooter / attack events. Visit alerrt.org.
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Harvard Business Review
You've checked all the boxes. You've graduated from the right college, held the right internship, flourished in the right graduate program and landed the right job at the right company. You've followed the path that everyone else told you would be the one to lead to success — to your dream job — only to find that your dream job doesn't feel so dreamy after all.
So, what makes a good job good?
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Business 2 Community
The role of the leader has never been as important or demanding as it is today. Leaders at all levels must deliver consistent, sustainable results in leaner organizations and get things done with fewer resources. There is an emphasis on maintaining employee morale and high levels of productivity in an increasingly complex and changing business environment, and leaders must ensure that the right people with the right skills are in the right roles.
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The Arizona Burn Foundation’s new kid-friendly program teaches children burn prevention education. Children under the age of 12 are the most vulnerable group for burn and scald injuries. Milo & Moxie: Smart Safety Rangers™ “story-time” curriculum addresses burn safety behaviors for both children and their parents.
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Inc.
There are so many leadership books, podcasts, TED Talks and articles such as this all vying for our attention, each trying to point the way forward to compelling leadership approaches that work for competitive advantage.
So, what does great leadership actually look like? True leadership in its purest form is behavioral and relational in nature. To measure yourself to the highest standards of leadership means measuring yourself against the soft stuff, not the hard stuff.
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