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.

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.

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"

[Photo: Tatanka IHC]

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: 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]

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).

Challenge #47 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #47: Servant-Leaders create team members who depend on one another.

• Listen to MCTI’s Podcast with Sebastian Junger.

• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

IGNITE: Care and Appreciation

 

Servant-Leaders demonstrate a level of caring and appreciation that unconditionally affirms others—whoever they are, whatever their circumstances, allowing each person to feel understood and appreciated. - James Sipe & Don Frick, Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership

[Photo: Utah BLM]

Challenge #46 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #46: Effective leaders and followers value relationships.

• Read “A Simple Approach to Relationship Building.”
• Journalize a plan to build relationships with your people.
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

Reugebrink Honored for Mentoring & Teamwork

(Michelle with Patrick Morgan)

Michelle Reugebrink
Resiliency and Personal Effectiveness Program Manager/USDA Forest Service (previously, now working for OPM HR Solutions)

Honored for Mentoring and Teamwork

Michelle Reugebrink has been selected as one of the recipients for the 2022 Paul Gleason Lead by Example award. Three individuals from across the wildland fire service have been chosen to receive this national award.

Jorge Amaya Honored for Innovation & Initiative

(Patrick Morgan, Jorge Amaya, and Ashleigh D'Antonio)

Jorge Amaya
USFS R3 Coronado NF – Nogales RD
Honored for Initiative and Innovation

Jorge Amaya has been selected as one of the recipients for the 2022 Paul Gleason Lead by Example award. Three individuals from across the wildland fire service have been chosen to receive this national award.

Challenge #45 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 Challenge #45 – Servant-Leaders measure team performance against a set of standards.

• Transfer the standards for team performance (pp.89-90) in Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership into your leadership journal.
• Evaluate your team's performance against the standards.
• Develop a plan of action to address areas of weakness and acknowledge areas of strength.
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

Challenge #44 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #44 – Servant-Leaders engage all members/leaders of the team.

• Transfer the leadership roles (pp. 87-88) in Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership into your leadership journal.
• Match the various leader roles with members of your team.
• Consider assigning roles to team members to increase the effectiveness of your team.
• Collaborate with other SLs on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

Challenge #43: 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #43 – Servant-Leaders know what drives their people.

Challenge #42 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

Challenge #42: Servant-Leaders promote growth mindsets.

• Watch Simon Sinek’s “Coaching with a Growth Mindset.”

• Conduct the blind spot exercise as appropriate.
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

Sullivan Honored for Motivation & Vision

  

(Cass Palmer, Chris Wilcox, Shawn Sullivan, Mike Ellsworth, Amy Lueders)

Shawn Sullivan

Supervisory Forestry Technician
Buenos Aires NWR, FWS

Honored for Motivation and Vision

Shawn Sullivan has been selected as one of the recipients for the 2022 Paul Gleason Lead by Example award. Three individuals from across the wildland fire service have been chosen to receive this national award.

Challenge #41 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

Challenge #41: Servant-Leaders are committed to the growth of their people.

• Read “7 Employee Growth and Development Ideas for Leaders.”
• Help your team members create a self-development plan.
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

Challenge #40 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #40: Servant-Leaders help others help themselves.

• Read The Skilled Helper – A Problem Management and Opportunity Development Approach to Helping by Gerard Egan and Robert J. Reese
• If you are serious about helping others, complete the Skilled Helper Training Course (with Prof. Gerard Egan PhD and Kain Ramsay) 
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.