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IAFC
This is your last chance to submit nominations for Fire Chief of the Year and the Ben Franklin Award for Valor. Presented annually by the IAFC and Pierce Manufacturing, Fire Chief of the Year honors one career and one volunteer chief for their leadership, innovation and contributions to the fire service. The IAFC Ben Franklin Award for Valor, sponsored by Motorola Solutions, honors a firefighter or team for their expert training, professional service and dedication to the duty displayed in saving a human life.
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Michael Hyatt
Every generation or so, a moment presents itself that demands something extraordinary from us as leaders. These occasions are more than a problem to solve. They are tests of our leadership in a broader sense, in our families, in our communities and in the world.
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EZ Trac Hydraulic AWD allows you to control your drive capabilities with the push of a button. With this AWD solution, your rig will maintain all the OEM qualities you bought it for, while providing more traction and torque to get you to the scene on-time and in one piece.
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Harvard Business Review
How can you lead with authority and strength when you feel anxious? How can you inspire and motivate others when your mind and heart are racing? If you hide the fear in an attempt to be leaderlike, where does it go?
Anxiety, of course, has a purpose.
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Lexipol
 In this Q&A with attorney and Deputy Fire Chief Curt Varone, you’ll learn what the individual and department responsibilities are when sexual harassment occurs, and how to respond appropriately.
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Lolly Daskal
Being a leader always comes with enormous responsibility, but being a leader in crisis adds significance and depth to that responsibility. It's easy to become overwhelmed and lose your bearings at a time when many of the usual processes and measures no longer apply, but successful leadership is still possible — and more necessary than ever.
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Fast Company
Do you ever find yourself consistently falling short to achieve your goals? If you can identify any patterns, you have likely hit upon one way to uncover your weaknesses. Understanding your weaknesses is perhaps important than knowing your strengths.
Here are a few other ways to diagnose your weaknesses.
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Forbes
If you're feeling anxious about current events, you're paying attention.
People everywhere have rarely experienced this level of collective emotions. Months of intense uncertainty have been compounded for many by feeling isolated at home. In the U.S., add to this a deep, seething anger over more than 100,000 deaths, tragically skewed towards people of color, at least some of which could have been prevented with stronger leadership.
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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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Skip Prichard
Many people are overwhelmed when they are studying leadership. Articles, books, seminars, videos, online courses ... all of them provide pieces to the puzzle to assist individuals to becoming a great leader.
It so often appears that there's a code somewhere that needs deciphering.
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Technimount System develops mounting solutions that provide first responders with a complete system for portable medical device management during patient transport.
Our universal mounting system fits multiple brands and models of monitors, defibrillators and ventilators, and applications of portable medical equipment on stretchers and in ambulances.
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Ladders
There are only two outcomes to an endeavor: succeed or fail. Get what you worked for, and you're a success. Fall short of that, and you're a failure. We think about these two outcomes as if they were binary.
However, maybe it's time we rethink failure. That is, how we can use failure to provide advantages that we might not gain otherwise.
Here are four of the most important ways.
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Lolly Daskal
When a crisis hits, your team is more likely to start experiencing burnout. They're feeling more stress, working longer hours and putting in more focused effort than usual. The combination is one that often leaves people feeling fatigued and irritated — in short, burned out. It's especially common in an extended crisis where people are not only stressed over work issues, but also dealing with the effects on their personal and family life.
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Fire Chief
Linda Willing writes: When I was a new firefighter, my captain gave me some advice: "If you find yourself alone, start worrying."
He wasn't talking about being alone in a fire. He meant being alone almost any time when at work in the station. If you were alone, it meant that everyone else was probably doing something that you should also be doing. He was educating me about the intense team orientation of the fire service and the negative consequences for someone who does not go along with it.
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By Linda Popky
After 9/11, when it became apparent we had to change our approach to security in the skies, as well as on the ground, the TSA was formed to manage new airport passenger screening protocols. A wave of mass shootings has led to enhanced security systems in public buildings. In many places, all visitors go through X-ray screening to gain access.
Because these measures alone can't stop bad actors, we know we all have to be vigilant to what's going on around us. If we see something, we have to say something.
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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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Harvard Business Review
Getting others to accept our feedback can prove challenging, especially when it's critical. Worried that their feedback may lead to hurt feelings or diminished productivity, managers resort to face-saving techniques like the "praise sandwich" that end up doing more harm than good. The result is a tenuous feedback culture built largely upon evasion, confusion and self-delusion.
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Kevin Eikenberry
Are you feeling some unease and distress at work these days? Chances are your tried and true routines are a mess, which may be the cause of those feelings. Consciously building work routines might be the best thing you could do for your productivity and stress level right now.
Routines help us in every area of our life.
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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 Hank Boyer
In January, you probably made several New Year's resolutions. According to Statistical Brain, people who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don't explicitly make resolutions.
So, how are you doing? Follow this simple plan, and you can become better at almost anything.
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Business.com
Elevate the dialogue around leadership. Give people a clear path to help them try new things, and create space for innovation with experimental leadership methods. As people try new things, there are a few skills that can help it create a better chance for experimenting to yield practical and positive results.
These five principles can help focus experimenting toward long-term results.
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Business 2 Community
Most managers have some level of vested interest in monitoring their employees. With remote teams, it's important to have some clear gauge for how your employees are performing, since you won't be there to monitor them in person.
If you're interested in improving productivity, you'll need some way to measure your team's efficiency before and after your new protocols. In rarer cases, if you're concerned about corporate espionage, you'll need some way to ensure that your employees aren't giving away trade secrets.
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