Challenge #25 - 2022 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #25: Students of leadership understand how their biases may affect learning.

• Review “The Cognitive Bias Codex.” 
• Bookmark for future use.

IGNITE: Teach and Give

 “When you learn, teach.

When you get, give.”

Maya Angelou

[Photo: Kari Greer/USFS]

Characteristics of Adult Learners - Learner Experience

Adults have had a great deal of previous learning, comprised of formal education, training, culture, reading, and life experience. Based on this prior learning, adult learners formulate assumptions about the world. Their assumptions can either help or hinder the learning of new material.

IGNITE: Making a Better Word

 

A “leadership course” should not be about “making better leaders.” It should be about helping leaders make a better world. - Tom Peters, American Author


[Photo: Midewin IHC]

Characteristics of Adult Learners - Self-Direction

Adults avoid, resist, and resent situations where they are not respected as adults. They desire to be treated by others as capable of self-direction.

Jason Kuiken - 2021 LBE Winner for Initiative and Innovation

R5 Deputy Regional Forester Jody Holzworth presenting Jason his award

Jason Kuiken

Forest Supervisor

Stanislaus National Forest
Category: Initiative and Innovation

Congratulations to Jason Kuiken for being selected as one of the recipients for the 2021 Paul Gleason Lead by Example award. Three individuals and one group from across the wildland fire service have been chosen to receive this national award.

Challenge #24 - 2022 WFLDP Campaign

 Challenge #24: Good leaders are self-directed learners.

• Seek out at least one opportunity to teach or learn this week.
• Share what you’ve learned with your team.
• Write about your experience in your journal.

IGNITE: Leadership Impacts

 

"Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." ― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In


[Photo: Kari Greer/USFS]

Characteristics of Adult Learners

 

It is far better for firefighters to learn how to overcome their anxieties in the safety of a simulation exercise, rather than for the first time out on an active fireline.

Most adults have developed a sense of self that they expect will be respected and appreciated in a learning environment. These and many other characteristics have been found to be somewhat universal among adult learners.

IGNITE: Best Time to Do the Right Thing

 

The best time to do the right thing was the first time you had an opportunity. - The Daily Coach blog


[Photo: Baker River IHC]