Challenge 18 - WFLDP Campaign

Challenge 18: 2020 WFLDP Campaign, Command Presence: Do you know who you are?

Effective leaders are about "we” not "me."

• Create a psychological safe environment for your followers.
• Read Amy Edmundson’s book “The Fearless Organization – Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth.”

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IGNITE: Complacent Responders

“A complacent responder can “infect” other responders."  ♦ Risk Gasaway, SA Matters ♦

[Photo: Kari Greer/USFS]

Staying resilient as a working parent with kids at home

Alexis Waldron, Human Performance Specialist, USDA Forest Service

When a friend made a request for others to share the most interesting thing they had seen since March 1st on Facebook—during the beginning days of COVID-19, as it became more real for the U.S.—I replied by describing the experience of driving to daycare with my three-month-old daughter (the day before my husband and I made the decision to pull her and her sister out). I was behind an old, blue Ford Explorer with a single driver in the front. On the dusty back windshield there was a white stick figure family, but instead of having a mom, dad and kids, it was a single lady surrounded by 22 cats. I missed getting a picture because I was busy counting all the cats on the windshield at the stoplight. In jest, a woman replied to the Facebook post— “Well, you know what those cats WON’T need—toilet paper. Twenty-two cats wins over 22 kids any day!” I laughed out loud when I read her response and also in irony to the empty toilet paper shelves in grocery stores and the fear of parents who have been potty training their toddlers and now are wondering and cringing with no toilet paper—do I dare put them back in diapers? What will that mean?

IGNITE: Small Team, Big Impact

A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything. ~ Simon Sinek ~

[Photo: Kyle Miller/Wyoming IHC]

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Challenge #17 - WFLDP 2020 Campaign

Challenge 17:

Effective leaders are artful in perspective taking.

• Watch Daniel Pink speak on attunement @ https://youtu.be/TP81PQ0vlaI.
• In your journal, define “introvert,” “extrovert,” and “ambivert.” Which fits you best and how you can better the art of perspective taking?

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IGNITE: Fear

“No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

♦ Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman & philosopher ♦

[Photo: Kyle Miller/Wyoming IHC]

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You Have Been Training for This Moment

(Photo: Dan Malia)

As students of leadership, you have been preparing to lead through crisis since you took L-180, Human Factors. As you moved through the wildland fire leadership curriculum, you gained tools to respond to crisis situations—situations like a pandemic response.

IGNITE: What Great Leaders Do

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t want to go but ought to be. ♦ Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady ♦

[Photo: Kyle Miller/Wyoming IHC]

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IGNITE: Be Better

The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.  ♦ Simon Sinek ♦

[Photo: Kari Greer/USFS]

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Challenge #16: 2020 WFLDP Campaign

Challenge #16: Effective leaders know their strengths and how to use them. 

• Take the VIA Institute on Character’s strength survey. 
• Write your strengths in your journal; list ways you can use your strengths to build your command presence.

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