Challenge #52 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

Challenge #52: Effective leaders put knowledge into practice.

• Congratulations! You have spent a year learning about servant leadership.
• If you are willing to serve, obtain a copy of The Servant Leadership Journal – An 18 Week Journey to Transform You and Your Organization.
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

IGNITE: Operating Out of Love

 A moral person operates out of love—love of self and others. – James Sipe and Don Frick, Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership

[Photo: Ben Strahan/El Dorado IHC]

IGNITE: Happy Holidays

To our followers all around the globe, we extend holiday greetings to you and yours. 

Thank you for your faithful service!

- The Wildland Fire Leadership Development Program -

Challenge #51 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

Challenge #51 – Servant-Leaders share their power.

• Watch WFSTAR’s “Command and Control.”

• How does this command-and-control model distribute power?
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

IGNITE: A Person's True Value

A person’s true wealth lies not in material possessions but in the depth of their kindness and compassion. – George Raveling, coach

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IGNITE: Truly Humble

 

No one knows less about humility than he who is truly humble. – Martin Luther quote from "Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership" by Sipes and Frick

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Challenge #50 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

Challenge #50: Servant-Leaders lead through influence and example.

• Read “Ascending the Second Mountain.”
• Optional: Read David Brook’s book The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life.
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

IGNITE: An Inward Sense of Right and Wrong

 

A Servant-Leader lives, loves, and leads by conscience—the inward moral sense of what is right and what is wrong. - James Sipe & Don Frick, The Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership

[Photo: Greg Haxby/BLM (retired)]

IGNITE: Taking on Partners

When it is time to delegate responsibility, Servant-Leaders take on partners rather than subordinates. – James Sipe and Don Frick, "Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership"

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Challenge #49 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

Challenge #49: Servant-Leaders lead through influence and example.

• Watch “How Benjamin Franklin and his club generated awesome ideas!
• Create your own club.
• Share answers to the questions from the video.
• Create questions of your own.
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

IGNITE: Vision with Action Can Change the World

Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world. – Nelson Mandela

IGNITE the Spark for Leadership and SHARE throughout your networks.

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Staff Rides - Immersing Yourself in Learning

Staff Rides - Immersing Yourself in Learning

by Shane Olpin

Staff rides have long been recognized as an effective technique for experiential learning in the wildland fire service. This unique approach allows fire professionals to gain a deeper understanding of past fire events and apply those lessons to future incidents. In this essay, we will explore the concept of staff rides, its benefits, and how it contributes to the development of fire professionals.

IGNITE: A Servant-Leader Is Worthy Of...

 

A Servant-Leader is worthy of respect, inspires trust and confidence, and establishes quality standards for performance. – James Sipe and Don Frick, Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership

[Photo: J. Leonard/BLM]

Honoring Our Fallen Through Learning - Point Fire

On November 30, 2023, members of the BLM Fire Operations Group (FOG) and Engine Subcommittee visited the site of the 1995 Point Fire to honor fallen Kuna volunteer firefighters Bill Buttram and Josh Oliver. 

Challenge #48 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #48: Servant-Leaders accept and delegate responsibility.

• Journalize your responses (Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership, p. 165).
• If I want others to give me moral authority:
• Do I really trust others to be responsible, or do I only trust myself?
• Am I generally “in integrity” with myself?
• Do I feel like a victim because others ask me to do so much? If so, how can I set appropriate boundaries?
• In the next week, will I accept the challenge to delegate two tasks that I prefer to do myself?
• Dig deeper on the Portal (http://ow.ly/jVBj50M1zKB).