Duty: Ensure that tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished.

Duty: Ensure that tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished.

• Issue clear instructions.
• Observe and assess actions in progress without micro-managing.
• Use positive feedback to modify duties, tasks and assignments when appropriate.

[Photo credit: Kari Greer/USFS]

Duty: Make sound and timely decisions

Duty: Make sound and timely decisions.

• Maintain situation awareness in order to anticipate needed actions.
• Develop contingencies and consider consequences.
• Improvise within the commander's intent to handle a rapidly changing environment.

[Photo credit: Folsom Lake Hand Crew]

Connecting through Reading

(Photo credit: Alpine IHC chose Extreme Ownership as their crew book for 2016)

You have heard us say, "Leaders are readers...and writers." We have heard many of you say, "I don't like to read." or "I don't have time to read."

We challenge you take a moment to watch "How and Why We Read" and then read on.

Duty: Be proficient in your job, both technically and as a leader.

Duty: Be proficient in your job, both technically and as a leader.

• Take charge when in charge. 
• Adhere to professional standard operating procedures. 
• Develop a plan to accomplish given objectives. 

[Photo credit: Kari Greer/USFS]

IGNITE: Trust is the Foundation

Leadership functions on the basis of trust. When trust is gone, the leader soon will be. – John C. Maxwell

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[Photo: Kari Greer/USFS, Pioneer Fire 2016]

Are We Hard-Wired to Fight?

I am often called the "heart" of most groups with which I associate. My compassionate nature is such that I opt for love over hate. In fact, my husband often refers to me as a "people pleaser." As with nature, I have a balance to my compassionate nature--the side that reflects the following quote:

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

IGNITE: The Humble Leader

If you blow your own horn to get noticed, you're in the wrong organization. – Strategies for Leadership

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[Photo: Redding Hotshot Crew]

IGNITE: Communicating Is More Than Talking

Do not think you are communicating just because you are talking. – Unknown

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[Photo: Tatanka IHC]

Are You Being the Best Person You Can Be?

After Lysippos [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Imagine a person who:

• Always knows what to say
• Can diffuse a tense situation
• Deliver tough news gracefully
• Confident without being arrogant
• Brave but not reckless
• Generous but never extravagant

[Source: Aristotle and Virtue Theory]

IGNITE: Ask Questions

It is better to ask some of the questions than know all the answers. – James Thurber

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[Photo: Folsom Lake Veterans' Fire Crew]