Posts Categorized: Officer
Leadership Got Your Department Boogered Up?
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Across the world I bet if you sat around the table on the tailboard of an apparatus or at any conference you would hear some folks that ar…
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Out of Air Emergency (Last Chance Rescue Filter)
Out of Air Emergency The Last Chance Rescue Filter
You are in a dark, heat, smoke filled room, and you are taking your last breath. You think to yourself “now what?”. Your mind quickly goes to a check list of things to do. During this check li…
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Playing in Your Own Sandbox
The transition from company level responsibilities and daily duties to those of a commanding officer to many is seamless, to others painful and slow;
Playing in Your Own Sandbox
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Company Officer Problem-Solving
A Company Officer is responsible for accomplishing many things. There are two critical skills that help with completion of tasks: knowing how to allocate the proper resources to solve needs and to determine if you alone, or others, are needed to solve a problem.
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Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway!
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway!
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway!
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Gettin’ Ready
Everyone got their cup? Everyone comfortable? Good.
Sitting on the tailboard talking with my crew about the historical events of late Sunday and yesterday I was urging them to be ready. Our response area isn't New York, Chicago or L.A. but…
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Often Attitude is the Only Difference between Success and Failure
Most of our personnel have strong predicated skills, abilities and knowledge. So what puts the people excelling in front of the others? Most times that small difference is attitude.
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ISFSI Live Fire Training
Whether you are a career firefighter, volunteer firefighter, company officer, instructor, training officer, chief officer, or whatever your title or role may be; if you have been tasked or assigned to be an instructor in a training exercise th…
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Are You Prepared to PREVENT a Line of Duty Death?
The fire service is a dynamic profession that is richly steeped in tradition, noble in deeds and calling. We know the fire service to be constant – yet ever changing in today’s society.
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Two Dates and a Dash in the Middle
As a fire officer I am going to challenge each individual who reads this article to live and work the fire service as if you only had one month to live.
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To Lead Tomorrow, Learn Today
What matters the most in the development of a leader is what occurs day by day over a long period of time. Leadership develops daily, not in a day.
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Looking Under the Hood of Your Organization
If it’s your first time to check under your organization’s hood, then you’ll probably be unfamiliar with all the numerous parts in and around the organization.
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Situational Awarness on Taking it to the Streets; Did you Listen in?
Taking it to the Streets hosted by Christopher NaumLast month on Firefighter NetCast.com ,Taking it to the Streets presented an exceptional show related to the emerging issues affecting fire ground operations and the emerging and prevailing issues rela…
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What a Difference… A Minute Can Make
We must be able to decode the “mess” into “opportunity”. It is paramount that we focus on the concepts that it shouldn’t be this way, but we can make it something else.
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Leadership Influence
An officer best exemplifies leadership by devoting a major portion of his/her time to stimulate continuous improvement in both subordinates and the organization.
Today's leaders are utilizing contemporary leadership styles. The officer needs to know w…
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Shaping the Future Creating leaders in our Youth
As we quickly approach a time when much of the fire service leadership will be retiring we are destine to face the loss of great leadership in the fire service. This could prove to be a tragedy for our profession or we can make it a positive bench mark. …
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Nontraditional Classroom Education
Classroom and hands on are super important. But even more important is learning from each other's experiences.
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Bridging the gap to Tomorrows Fire Service
The 82nd Leadership Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fire Chiefs is this week in Louisville, Kentucky. What an outstanding opportunity for fire service leaders to gather and network. The company Officer's own Christopher Naum is one of the presenters at this conference.
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Time Management and Effective Fire Companies
All firefighters realize and understand the importance of time when it comes to responding to an emergency incident. Time is recognized as one limited resource that must be maximized in every aspect.
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Operational Excellence
Regardless of your rank, or time in grade, the length of time in your organization, the size and structure of your department or your daily demands and challenges; leadership, mentoring, contributing, setting the example, being at your very best indivi…
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Deployment Capabilities, The Company and The Officer
Deployment Capabilities Rest Squarely in the Hands of Our Response Companies & Officers
Capabilities
Training
Proficiencies
Skills
Experience
Resources
Procedures
Organization
Degree of Depth
Profiles
Fortitude
Duty
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Company Officers are Instructors and True Leaders
As we embark deep into the millennium and a new decade, changes are sure to occur. The fire service will surely see many of these changes. The place that we need to make changes initially is within ourselves as officers. We must be prepared to meet these…
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Officer Credentialing and Qualifications
It’s no longer acceptable to be functioning and performing in a rank and position of responsibility without the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA) in order to execute those duties in an effective, efficient and compliant manner aligned wit…
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Shiners, Whiners and Recliners
I have heard a lot of analogies over my career about the fire service like “You can peal one fire department name off the wall and replace it with another one and it would be the same” and “it is the same circus but with different clowns…
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Four Competencies of Leadership
Being a leader does not mean you have to be the Chief Brunacini in your fire department. In fact trying to be some type of leader you are not can get you into deep trouble. It is important to develop your own styles and type. In the 1980’s Dr. Warren B…
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