Posts Tagged: Respect
Owning the Job. Part II – Past, Present, and Future
To what do we owe the men who founded our department? The honor, respect, dignity, integrity, pride, tradition, loyalty, and brotherhood that created it? Why am I sitting here almost 125 years after the first fire department in Roanoke was created seeking ways to bring back the best of what it has been? What has been lost? Where can we find it?
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Owning the Job. Part I – Self Evaluation
Low morale, bad attitudes, lacking leadership, loss of traditions, lack of pride, no honor, too little integrity, loss of camaraderie, too little respect, no discipline...I could go on. Hopefully the building blocks are still there and I can help salvage the hull of what is a great fire department.
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Go to the Funeral…You OWE it to Them
To me BROTHERHOOD is not something that can be taught, learned, or explained. It is too simple to understand and too complicated to explain. BROTHERHOOD must be experienced.
If you want to start to experience BROTHERHOOD...Go To the Funeral
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30% Club… Wanna Join? Pay Your Dues
In everyone's career, things are said or done that make the "light bulb turn on". This article was one of the things that I read early in my career that had a tremendous impact on me.
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The Perfect Company Officer
In my mind it boils down to this; if an officer is not willing to or does not continaually improve himself as an individual and leader and firefighter, he will never be able to improve his crew. He just wont have the respect and credibility to facilitate that improvement. If it isn't important to him, it wont be important to the crew.
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RESPECT
I'm going to make this short and sweet: you will never be afforded the respect you think you deserve if you can't clean up the mess you have made.
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Leadership and Respect
As an officer, you have added responsibility and become a management tool in one form or another. Although you have just been promoted and will now be viewed as an officer, your people will recall your prior actions to determine your initial level of respectability. Right, wrong or indifferent, what you did and how you acted and how you treated others before you were promoted will play a large role in how you are viewed and their respect for you or lack of respect will be based on those previous observations.
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