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Shiners, Whiners and Recliners: Profiling Today’s Fire Service
Shiners, Whiners and Recliners: Profiling Today’s Fire Service The Chief’s Trumpet Chief Doug Cline The Chief’s Trumpet I have heard a lot of analogies over my career about the fire service like “You...
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Fire and Training on Fire Engineering Blog Talk Radio
Listen to the latest edition of Fire and Training on Fire Engineering Blog Talk Radio. Joining host Doug Cline is Chief John Buckman and Chief Jim Duffy as they discuss taking training to the streets....
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Live the Fire Service
As an officer you have an obligation to the organization. What are you going to do with the balance of your time in the fire service? It is important that you live that time having maximum impact in...
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Mentoring Moment – It is about the people not all about the work.
Most people in the workplace are used to working for bosses who care only about the work that gets done, not about them as human beings. Fortunately that is less the case in the fire service. Most of...
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Shaping the Future “Creating Leaders in our Youth” Part III
Knowledge is Power… Share It !!! This statement is often used by many including myself. So what does it truly mean? It means that you will freely give of your knowledge and wisdom to others withholding...
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Mentoring Moment: Reaching the Peak Performance Zone
Chief Bobby Halton Have you ever wondered how certain leaders in the fire service reach such success and stay there? What is their secret? Well it is simple…find what you do well and keep doing it!...
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We the Fire Service…
We the Fire Service… We the Fire Service have a debt of gratitude. One generation shall praise your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. I know that as a fire service member I have a...
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INTEGRITY ““ The Most Important Leadership Trait!
INTEGRITY ““ The Most Important Leadership Trait! By:Coach Kelly Walsh and Chief Dan Jones “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.” – Dwight D Eisenhower Trust and Integrity...
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Is Your Relationship with the Organization Status Quo?
As I reflect back over the years in my career there is one lesson I remember that resinates from my mentors, “If you put the organization first, then your wants and ambitions will soon follow. But it...
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Empowerment as a Leadership Tool
Empowerment is the process of enabling or authorizing an individual to think, behave, take action, control work and decision making in autonomous ways. It is the state of feeling self-empowered to take...
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