1. Leadership: A View for the 21st Century
Harry R. Carter, Ph.D., MIFireE
Municipal Fire Protection Consultant
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2. What Is Leadership?
The ability to get something done by someone else, because they want to do it.
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3. Leadership Principles
Be technically proficient
Know yourself
Seek self improvement
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4. Leadership Principles
Know your people
Always look out for their welfare
Keep your folks informed
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5. Leadership Principles
Set the example
Be sure to explain each task
Be sure that people understand what you have said
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6. Leadership Principles
Provide just enough supervision
Do not smother your people
Do not let them run amuck
Support and guide the troops
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7. Leadership Principles
Train as a team
Support the individual
Nurture the group
Come to know them as individual human beings
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8. Leadership Principles
Make sound decisions
Make decisions at the proper time
Cultivate responsibility among your people
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9. Leadership Principles
Know the capabilities of your team
Operate within those levels of competency
Seek responsibility and take command
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10. Leadership Traits High level of self-confidence
A passion for what they do
Great speakers
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11. Leadership Traits Effective writers Good listeners
Wide range of knowledge
A vision
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12. Your Personal Leadership Compass
Integrity
Courage
Honesty
Pride
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13. Your Personal Leadership Compass
Faith
Determination
Forcefulness
Good Judgement
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14. Your Personal Leadership Compass
Tact
Decisiveness
Persistence
Initiative
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15. Your Personal Leadership Compass
High Principles
Take Responsibility
Unselfishness
Good Personal Bearing
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16. Your Personal Leadership Compass
Loyalty
Dependable
Reliable
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17. Your Personal Leadership Compass
Self-Disciplined
Thirst for Knowledge
Servant of the troops
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18. Special Skills of a Leader
Forward thinker
Good innovator
A constant flow of ideas
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19. “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
Victor Hugo
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20. “The time has come to make leadership a true priority in the fire service.”
Harry Carter
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