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IAFC
Please take a moment to complete this survey as part of IAFC President Gary Ludwig's presidential initiative, "If You Don't Feel Well, Don't Make it Your Farewell." The results will help us identify the tools, information and resources necessary to assist members and fire departments providing immediate medical care and eliminating life-ending cardiac events. TAKE SURVEY
Business 2 Community
Being your own boss — whether you're a freelancer, entrepreneur or small business owner — is the ultimate dream. You get to do what you love, set your own schedule and create your own lifestyle. At the same time, you’re solely responsible for the progress, goal setting, and performance of yourself and your business. It may feel challenging to stay motivated when you're the boss.
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Entrepreneur
Talented employees are like wine — their value increases with age. Repeatedly losing them to other companies is a bad sign with all sorts of unpleasant implications. It may be that they're simply ready to move on, but if you wait until they leave to discover the particulars, you've robbed yourself of two things.
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Firefighter cancer rates are significantly higher than the national average. This is unacceptable. Take charge of your health and track every single exposure from every single run. You can use the free tools at FirstForward.com to get started right now.
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Strategy + Business
Think back to the last conference you attended. How many presentations do you remember? Probably not too many. As a leader or aspiring leader at any level, one of the biggest challenges you face is to inspire and motivate other people so that they can take the right actions on behalf of themselves and the group — that is, to have impact. That's why you want to be a leader with a strong presence not just at conferences, but in every interaction.
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Inc.
Marcel Schwantes writes: Whether you subscribe to the notion that "everything rises and falls on leadership" or that "culture eats strategy for breakfast," no company on the planet can grow without growing leaders first.
While the word "leadership" conveys hundreds of possible scenarios about what a leader is or does, I posit that the best leaders are people-centered; they aspire to lead by serving others first, and everything else follows to exceptional results.
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Leadership & Learning with Kevin Eikenberry
You have an open leadership slot, and now you need to fill it. As you look at the possible candidates, you see options, but it can be difficult to decide who to pick. Your experience says that those selections can be tricky. Before you make that decision and invite your pick into your office for the announcement, ask yourself this — how do you decide who to promote into leadership?
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Forbes
Good leaders prioritize communication, both with customers and within their companies. Communication is the key to solving problems, coming up with new ideas and keeping loyal customers and employees. It's a skill you can constantly hone, no matter how long you've been leading a team.
Here are 15 practical approaches for leaders looking to improve their communication skills.
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Passport Accountability is made up of Name Tags, Passport Collectors and Command Boards. These components work together to identify personnel, apparatus and assignments providing many levels of accountability within the incident perimeter. This system has become a blueprint for how Emergency Personnel respond to incidents, maximizing efficiency and improving safety.
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Fast Company
Chances are, there is some situation at work that puts you under pressure. It might be giving a presentation to a client. It might involve a delicate negotiation for a big sale. You might feel it when the deadline for a big report looms. Whatever it is, this thing makes your stomach clench, your palms sweat and your brain feel muddled. Suddenly you don't feel like you're functioning at your best. What can you do to make yourself better at handling these sorts of high-pressure situations?
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Forbes
An ambitious executive spends hundreds of hours mastering the technical parts of their role. They understand how to create an insightful report or can deliver thousands of lines of code on time, but that's often not enough to earn a promotion.
Successful leaders spend as much time honing softer skills like listening and empathy as they spent on technical skills earlier in their careers.
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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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Lolly Daskal
Even if luck played a role, top leaders are where they are because of their skills, determination and confidence. However, self-confidence is something that many people — including leaders — sometimes struggle with. To help you when your own confidence starts to falter, here are 14 ways you can banish self-doubt.
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Fire departments in many communities respond daily to homeless encampments and individuals living on the streets. In this on-demand webinar, industry leaders take real-world experiences and translate them into actionable strategies.
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Harvard Business Review
Leading a group of people can produce chronic anxiety, but many leaders who suffer from anxiety don't even realize it. This podcast explores anxiety related to leadership and how performance anxiety can hold us back at work.
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Etiflex’s Patented Hydrant Inspection Tag System serves 4 important functions:
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Michael Hyatt
I have a hard time saying no. Perhaps you do, too. This problem is more common than we think, especially for those who are empathetic or nurturing. We just hate the thought of hurting someone else's feelings.
It was a long time before I noticed this problem in myself. For most of my career, I've had administrative assistants who said no for me. If someone had a request, they had to get through an assistant first.
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Lexology
Managing performance or dismissing employees is usually challenging enough but further complicating factors can (and do) arise under the adverse action provisions when performance management decisions (including dismissal decisions) coincide with the employee exercising certain workplace rights, such as lodging a workplace complaint, grievance or taking a period of extended personal/stress leave.
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