Challenge #4 - 2020 WFLDP Leadership Campaign

2020 WFLDP Campaign: Command Presence - Do you know who you are?

Challenge 4: Select a leader to monitor for a week.

• In your journal, make note of things that add to or detract from his/her command presence.

*Avoid the temptation to observe only detractions.

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IGNITE: Reading Transformations

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. - Joyce Carol Oates
[Photo: Devil's Canyon Veterans Handcrew]

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IGNITE: Start With Good People

Start with good people and develop them into good leaders. Don’t start with good leaders and hope you can turn them into good people. ♦ Scott Cochrane ♦
[Kari Greer/USFS]

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Command Presence - The Cutting Edge

Image by Gundula Vogel from Pixabay 

Growing up near Sun Valley, Idaho, winter sports were popular. Although Sun Valley is reknowned for skiing, ice skating holds the fascination of many. I enjoyed graceful men and women gliding across the ice, jumping, and spinning as they went. Little did I know that my fasciation with ice skating would become the impetus for a leadership blog some 45 years later.

So, Pam, what does ice skating have to do with leadership, and more specifically, command presence? Today's reflections are inspired by the movie "The Cutting Edge."  I know this is a stretch, but stay with me.

IGNITE: Transformation Begins with Self

Everyone dreams of changing the world, but few realize that the process begins with transforming themselves. ♦ The Daily Coach ♦

[Photo: La Grande IHC]

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Challenge #3 - 2020 WFLDP Campaign

2020 National Wildland Fire Leadership Campaign: Command Presence - Do you know who you are?

Challenge 3:

Responding with “deliberate calm” is important during an emergency.

• Read “Command Presence – Leadership in Emergencies” by Timothy Cummings. (http://ow.ly/IuLz50yapny)

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IGNITE: Space for Transformation

Transformation is possible if we create the space for it to happen. ♦ Shaka Senghor♦

[Photo: Kari Greer/USFS]
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Mann Gulch and the Missing Links

The Mann Gulch tragedy is an event every wildland firefighter should study in depth, but few do. The lessons gleaned from that one incident altered the course of wildland fire. While conducting research for the 2020, I came upon a statement by Sylvia Ann Hewlett about "gravitas" (how you act) that flung me headfirst into today's blog on the missing link from Mann Gulch—Wag Dodge lacked gravitas, the very essence of  command presence:

These qualities connote gravitas, that weightiness or heft that marks you as worth following into the fire. - Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Executive Presence

IGNITE: Taking Care of Your People

Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don't want to. ♦ Richard Branson ♦

[Photo: Kyle Miller/Wyoming IHC]

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Challenge #2: Command Presence - Do you know who you are?

Challenge 2:

• Read Leading in the Wildland Fire Service.
• In your journal, make special notes with regard to command presence.

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