Who Am I? A Tool to Help Build a Team

Who Am I? A Tool to Help Build a Team
by Bob Schoultz

A decade ago, when I joined my local Rotary club, part of the initiation process required that I introduce myself to the club in a 4 minute presentation – what they call a Who Am I? I wanted mine to be a little different from others I’d seen, so my wife Mary Anne joined me on stage, and as I went through the various roles I’d had in my life, she handed me the headgear – a hat, helmet, ball-cap, wrestling head-gear, swim cap – that represented that specific phase of my life. When we got to me being a father, she tossed me 1-2-3 dolls. The crowd loved it! How I delivered My Who Am I? was part of my statement, and it was appropriate that I had my life’s partner with me.

IGNITE: Leadership makes us...

Leadership makes us aim our efforts, give of ourselves, and create meaningful relationships and changes. - Brendon Burchard (The Student Leadership Guide)

[Photo: Plumas IHC]

IGNITE: Take Note & Reach Out

To become a leader, take note of the opportunities around you and reach out to others. - Beth Schaefer

[Photo credit: Kyle Miller/Wyoming IHC

The Heart of Leadership

Authentic leaders lead not because it is easy but because it is a way to better themselves, those they lead, and the environment they affect.. - Alexis Waldron and Mike Alarid

We are honored to showcase "Becoming Authentic: The Heart of Leadership in Wildland Fire Management." This has been a work in progress for a couple of years, and we had hoped it make publication in time for the 2017 National Wildland Fire Leadership Campaign - Leading Authentically.

Thank you, Alexis Waldron and Mike Alarid for your perspective on the "mortar that holds" our values together and makes them function.

Wildland Fire Leadership Challenge - Digging a Little Deeper

Read "Becoming Authentic: The Heart of Leadership in Wildland Fire Management."

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Alexis Waldron, Ph.D., is a human performance specialist for the Forest Service and member of the NWCG Leadership Subcommittee, with 10 years of experience as a seasonal firefighter; and Mike Alarid, former superintendent of the Bear Divide Hotshot Crew, was the district zone fire management officer on the Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles, CA (retired in 2015). All expressions are those of the authors.

IGNITE: Our Values and Principles

Duty

• Be proficient in your job, both technically and as a leader
• Make sound and timely decisions
• Ensure that tasks are understood, supervised, accomplished
• Develop your subordinates for the future

Respect

• Know your subordinates and look out for their well-being
• Keep your subordinates informed
• Build the team
• Employ your subordinates in accordance with their capabilities

Integrity

• Know yourself and seek improvement
• Seek responsibility and accept responsibility for your actions
• Set the example

IGNITE - All Things Lead to One

All things lead to one. - Norman Maclean

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Leadership Lunch: A Pet Rock That’s Not Gathering Moss

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My name is Ted Adams, and I’m just a little guy in the grand scheme of things. My job title says I’m an assistant supervisor to a 10-person crew. But, where I think it matters, I’m a friend, I’m a mentor, and I’m a leader. I started a little project called Leadership Lunch last year, and over the last 12 months people began to take notice. I still don’t know why, but I’m tickled with the all attention my pet rock has been given.

IGNITE: Life's Most Persistent and Urgent Question

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 

'What are you doing for others? - Martin Luther King Jr.

[Photo: Tallac IHC]

IGNITE: Creating Meaningful Relationships and Changes

Leadership makes us aim our efforts, give of ourselves, and create meaningful relationships and changes. - Brendon Burchard, The Student Leadership Guide

[Photo credit: Tallac IHC]

Choices, Choices, Choices - Too Many Choices

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Have you experienced the discomfort of too many choices?

I recently went to lunch with a group of friends. Our first decision was where to go. The choices seemed endless, but we managed to narrow the choice down to three and eventually pick one.

IGNITE: Move Them Toward Commitment

Leaders must not only have their own commitments, they must move the rest of us toward commitment. - John W. Gardner

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IGNITE: Unified Action

Leadership is not a starring role. True leadership describes unified action of leaders and followers working together to jointly achieve mutual goals. It is collaborative. ~ Gilbert Fairholm

[Photo credit: Baker River IHC]

From Scrooge to Change Agent

(Photo credit: John Leech [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

Leadership is about creating change that you believe in. - Seth Godin, Tribes

Last month, studied Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol which got me thinking about leadership and change.

Scrooge is taken on a journey to the past, present, and future by his old friend and business partner Jacob Marley. The opening lines of the story is "Marley is dead." Marley visits Scrooge in an attempt to do what he himself cannot do--change his ways before he dies.