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Safety Stand Down
Safety Stand Down is June 14-20. This year's theme calls attention to the hazards that responders face while performing their duties on roadways. Departments are asked to suspend all non-emergency activities during the week to focus on safety and health education and training. To participate, take the online safety quiz and use the resources.
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IAFC
The IAFC wants Congress to get money directly to local fire departments by dramatically increasing funding for both the AFG and SAFER programs. The House of Representatives-passed HEROES Act (H.R. 6800) includes $500 million each for the AFG and SAFER grant programs to help fire departments respond to COVID-19 and save firefighter jobs. Please contact your Senators and ask them to support the public safety provisions in the HEROES Act.
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Lolly Daskal
For years, I have studied and observed great leadership, teaching and coaching leaders and organizations around the world on the qualities that make leaders effective. One thing I've learned through that experience: when crisis hits, the best leaders are ready to act courageously and boldly. Their leadership grows and deepens even through dark times because they hold close to the core principles of leadership.
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Forbes
Now is the time to check your capacity for change. Ask yourself, what will successful leadership look like in a post-pandemic world? Are you ready to lead differently to meet the demands of an indefinite future?
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By Cathy Bush, Ph.D.
Conflict between co-workers is a fact of life. If you work with people who care about the mission of the work and who are invested in doing it well, there's a good chance there will be conflict when each person tries to offer ideas and contribute to group decisions.
Even though conflict can come from a good place, it's definitely a challenging part of work life, and it can lead to the rapid demotivation of your employees. In a virtual setting, poorly managed conflict can push teams to the breaking point.
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Michael Hyatt
Under-communication is a consistent problem in nearly every business. You can solve that by taking ownership of the communication happening around you. Most under-communication is inadvertent. People are simply unaware of the gap between what's in their mind and what's in yours, and you suffer from that same lack of awareness. Fortunately, the solution is remarkably simple.
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Lolly Daskal
In my work as a leadership coach, I spend an enormous amount of time with top corporate leaders and successful entrepreneurs. One trait that the best of them seem to share is an open-door policy. An open-door policy is a great leadership practice at any time, but it's even more important when your people are scattered and working remotely. Whether your open door takes the form of a video conference feed, a text or phone line, or another mode of communication, here are some of the top ways it can help the people on your team.
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Occupational Health & Safety
The ranks of remote employees are growing. While working from home comes with a unique set of challenges, it is possible for remote employees to not only survive, but thrive, whether the arrangement is temporary or permanent. Whether you're managing a well-established remote staff or a group that is new to the remote working dynamic, it's important to fine tune your skills to best manage your team.
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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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Entrepreneur
The world is an entirely different place than it was just a few months ago. So, how can you still manage your team and maintain a productive workforce? Here are seven ways to accomplish those goals.
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By Chuck Swoboda
As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, and business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem? Most of these teams struggle to innovate, often delivering incremental improvements at best.
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MIT Sloan Management Review
A crisis pressure-tests leadership and culture. Many new values are formed under the strain, and employees gain new perspectives on their organization and its leadership. Communication is the key to keeping them motivated and productive in a season of enormous distraction.
No matter how well you run a business, external forces will test you, your culture and your resolve.
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Associations Now
As states reopen following coronavirus closures, associations may start considering the same with their workspaces. While industry groups and building management companies have offered guidance, a lot has been focused on the building. Recently, the Society for Human Resource Management put out a checklist of HR-related items to help employers manage the staff portion of the return.
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Kevin Eikenberry
People have been trying to crack the code of leadership development success for a long time. Unfortunately, even though it has been studied more, written about more and more people have tried to improve their leadership skills, the results have often been lackluster. I believe there are reasons for this fact. I've created a very economical way to share why it has happened and what is missing.
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Air conditioning without shore power? Absolutely! Mobile Power will run your 120V A/C to keep your crew cool while driving to and at the scene. MORE
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By Simma Lieberman
As recently as February, it was easy to think that what happened in the "outside world" was not relevant to the business world. That's no longer true. Lines between work, home and community are blurred, because our homes are our workplaces and our workplaces are in our homes.
Even essential workers who work on-site for the most part go home at the end of their shift and stay there. Even as cities and states begin to open up, people will still spend most of their time inside for now.
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Technimount System’s Techni-Shield Defender is a reusable, protective screen for stretchers, acting as an additional barrier between potentially infected COVID-19 patients and emergency responders. Adaptable to the patient’s height, its smooth screen is made from PETG FDA-approved material that can withstand rigorous sterilization and is impact resistant.
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Entrepreneur
The coronavirus crisis changed the world overnight. Remote work is the new normal, and organizational priorities have shifted. For company leaders, the way you live and breathe has changed, including the way you destress. Going to the gym and meeting for drinks during happy hour have come to a halt. So, what is there to do to take some of the pressure away?
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Harvard Business Review
Imagine that you have a new supply-chain leader starting next week. You hired her to do supply-chain transformation before the crisis took hold, but now she is joining remotely and inheriting a remote team, and her short-term, urgent priorities are very different from what they appeared to be before the pandemic. As her manager, how can you make her onboarding experience a productive one? What can you do to support her so that she'll hit the ground running?
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SmartMAP by APX allows Incident Commanders and Firefighters to access critical information – such as building size and location, nearest hydrants, fire flow requirements, pre-plan information and much more – for any response in seconds.
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Forbes
In today's fast-paced, complex world, leaders need mirrors. The mirrors they need, however, go far beyond reflecting their physical appearance. Leaders need mirrors that reflect their behavior and the impact their behavior has on others. That requires much more than a piece of glass with a thin layer of metallic silver on the back. Leaders need mirrors to interpret data and feed it back to them in a practical form.
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Harvard Business Review
Although COVID-19 is clearly a catastrophe, it offers what every social scientist craves: a "natural experiment" that allows us to compare different responses to similar shocks. We have already learned much about what does and doesn't work in tackling the virus itself. We can also glean profound lessons about the role of leaders.
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