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How community relations impact risk reduction
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020 — 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST
Community risk reduction is not a new concept in fire service, but how departments approach it and involve their communities can impact its success. And with the influence of life-altering events like COVID-19, the actions you take, the relationships you make, and the vision you instill are more critical than ever.
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Should we stop managing performance and start coaching?
Training Zone
If we want our companies to thrive, we need to fill our ranks with motivated employees. For that to happen, we need a performance management system in place that promotes communication, trust and valuable feedback. Everyone involved needs to know that they are a crucial member of the team, that they are being heard and that their manager is in their corner.
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Leadership and team building during times of crisis
Provider Magazine
Early in 2020, the long term care world suddenly faced its greatest crisis ever—COVID-19. This crisis quickly changed everything about the way day-to-day activities, care and business took place in a dramatic fashion.
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Hiring and firing: 3 tools managers need to make employee transitions easier
TechRepublic
Change is one of the few things in life that you can count on, and it's even more true when it comes to managing a team at work. Whether you are welcoming a new employee to the team or letting one go, it's important to establish best processes. Adding checklists to your management tool box will help to seamlessly transition employees
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Effective fire and emergency response requires speed and accuracy. MAX Fire Station Alerting delivers both with innovative functionality that gets first responders in route faster, and integration with dispatch systems that enables them to arrive more informed. See the ALL NEW MAX Fire Station Alerting, arriving Summer 2020.
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A new era for employee accountability and trust
BenefitsPRO
Among the many unexpected turns of 2020 is the shift to remote work for millions of employees who previously reported into a highly supervised workplace. Prior to this year, it was not uncommon for supervisors and managers to harbor doubts and even mistrust that employees "working" at home would actually work. The past many months have presented a test and an opportunity for legions of workers to demonstrate their trustworthiness and accountability to management.
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5 soft skills and leadership strategies that are key for managing remote workers
Business Insider
It is an understatement to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the business world. As many organizations have had to pivot to remote work, both management and staff have been forced to adjust quickly to the new realities of working virtually. According to a recent study by Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, "an incredible 42% of the U.S. labor force is now working from home full-time," with this "enlarged group of work-from-home employees" accounting "for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity."
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Anyone can learn to be a better leader
Harvard Business Review
When you're an individual contributor, your ability to use your technical expertise to deliver results is paramount. Once you've advanced into a leadership role, however, the toolkit that you relied on to deliver individual results rarely equips you to succeed through others.
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How to communicate with your employees during times of crisis
Lolly Daskal
These are hard times. The pandemic, its associated economic problems and political tension are all raging on with no end in sight, and now the coldest, darkest season of the year is fast approaching. If your employees are like most people, they're feeling exhausted and stressed even when nothing specific is going wrong. At times like these, the way you communicate with your people is more important than ever. Here are some reminders.
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Revolutionize your Multi-Gas detector training capability with Argon Electronics’ innovative new MultiGAS-SIM App and interface that runs on your own Android mobile. Choose from a wide range of instructor-configurable simulation sensors to realistically depict the responses of real detectors to multiple hazardous substances and scenarios, including LEL and O2 depletion.
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How to unleash the high performance hero within you
Skip Prichard
Positive thinking mixed with positive doing is a recipe for high performance. Rob Hartnett has worked in senior management roles in companies from Apple to Hewlett-Packard. He specializes in helping others develop a possibility mindset, and his work is all about helping you believe it's possible. His new book explores just that, and I reached out to talk with him more about his work.
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Structure equals comfort: 4 effective leadership strategies
Forbes
The "new normal" is such a cliche, and there's nothing new about it — plus it's not normal. Come on people, let's focus on strategies to survive the future of COVID-19, Skynet, Planet of the Apes and whatever else is ahead. As business leaders, we've all had to face many of the same obstacles to protect workers and keep our businesses going in an uncertain environment. Fortunately, there are some common strategies you can try.
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Lexipol
In this white paper, fire service legal expert Curt Varone shares data from 10 years of studying fire department litigation.
Download your free copy today!
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How to spot your business vulnerabilities
Michael Hyatt
Deep roots aren't enough to survive storms. You need flexibility. To start, identify where you need to adapt by proactively identifying your vulnerabilities.
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Why management styles have to adapt for remote working
Personnel Today
Effective remote working requires employers to adjust more than just working processes. How teams are led and managed when staff are working from home is highly influential in nurturing workforce performance and positive morale. Getting this wrong risks employee discord and workplace disputes.
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3 leadership skills necessary for managing remote employees
Forbes
Leadership isn't something that only happens in an office. Rather, leadership is really about the culture, environment and space you create among team members. It has nothing to do with geography. Many businesses already know this as the increase in remote work has been steady, growing 44% in the last five years (pre-pandemic).
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'If at first you don't succeed ...'
Michael Hyatt
Any entrepreneur will tell you: it's almost impossible to create a solution that works on the first try. Resilience isn't just essential for entrepreneurial success; it's essential for your success. How can you cultivate it?
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To better track your productivity, focus on your bandwidth
Fast Company
If you think you have enough hours in the day to tackle everything on your to-do list, but you seem to consistently run out of the energy to do it all before the day is over, you may have a bandwidth issue. Think of bandwidth as your energy or mental capacity to handle something. Time management is how you allocate that energy to accomplish the myriad things you need to accomplish.
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Rugged mounting brackets make the transportation of medical devices used by 911 rescuers easier. Tested for tough conditions and easy to disinfect, Technimount System supports firefighters with brackets for safer patient transport.
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Top business skills for success on the job
U.S. News & World Report
At their core, businesses are basically groups of people working toward a common goal. The more effectively these people can work together, the more successful a business can be. If collaboration is the wheel that helps the business progress, business skills are the lubricant that keeps the wheel turning smoothly.
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Tips to have a positive mindset and improve your productivity
KHTS-FM
Are you looking to boost your productivity? The good news is that you can, and many people have tried before you, meaning there's plenty of information on how to improve mindset and therefore boost positivity. Many of us try daily to increase productivity with external tools such as apps, hardware, notes, etc., but how many of us look inwards first to help improve our positivity and productivity? Time to delve into some of the great tricks and tips we've discovered and how they can help you.
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Leadership and succession for the next normal
Hunt Scanlon
Chief executive officers were already operating in a volatile, fast-changing business environment when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, accelerating challenges that were already in place. The crisis has led to a gradual evolution of "leadership DNA."
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TSI Incorporated
TSI’s PortaCount® Respirator Fit Tester delivers safety by utilizing the most effective quantitative fit testing method available to identify poor fitting masks. With OSHA’s recently modified CNC Protocols, the respirator fit testing process is now also faster and more streamlined. Instead of eight exercises, the new rules only require four. Total fit test time is reduced from 7:15 minutes to 2:29, providing users with the fastest fit test on the market. Visit it us at www.tsi.com/ModifiedCNCProtocols to learn more.
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What it takes to lead through an era of exponential change
Harvard Business Review
To say that 2020 is a year of disruption and change is to understate the obvious. Our daily lives, from educating our kids, managing our health and working from home, to simple social rituals like dinner with friends, underwent rapid multi-dimensional change.
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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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A case for leadership gratitude
Kevin Eikenberry
Gratitude is typically seen as a personal endeavor. I am a big believer in both the mindset and practice of gratitude. As leaders, we have a major opportunity and responsibility that goes beyond our personal beliefs and practices. Today, I want to make a case for leadership gratitude.
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Meet the most demanding and evolving needs of your fire department with ESO Fire RMS. From NFIRS-compliant incident reporting to CRR tracking, and more, you’ll be armed with all you need to solve issues and achieve your departmental goals.
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How to best survive a bad leader
Lolly Daskal
If you're among the many people who find themselves working for a bad leader, take heart. Given a choice, no one would willingly put themselves in that situation. However, as with any circumstance that's less than ideal, what you get out of it largely depends on what you put into it. There are lessons you can learn and strengths you can build through the experience of working for a bad leader. If nothing else, they can serve as a negative example.
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The death of the conference call
Kevin Eikenberry
If you are like me, you have been on hundreds of conference calls in the past. They were a brilliant solution to remote communication requiring only a phone, a number to the bridge line and a passcode. Conference calls served a need, but now, like the fax machine and the pager, their future looks dim. Why is the conference call dying and when might you still use them?
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