IGNITE: Bring Someone With You

If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, bring someone with you. - Simon Sinek

[Photo: Union IHC in Canada]

Challenge #33 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #33: Servant-leaders permit and nurture creativity in themselves and others.

• What are three ways you can be creative before the end of the day?
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

IGNITE: The Human Side of Innovation

“Innovation is an act of love—or at least it should be. Always. It is a gesture of empathy, respect, generosity, of one human being's devotion to another.” - Mauro Porcini, The Human Side of Innovation

[Photo: Eric Pelletier/BLM]

Stepping Back to Step Forward and Build the Team

(Photo: George Risko)

As I reflect on recent events, my focus rests on two groups—the heroes and family we have lost and the storytellers. (I have much love and respect for both.) I have had time to reflect upon a question I was asked early in my career—how do we pass the hard lessons on in our culture so others may be spared a similar tragedy.

IGNITE" The Doorway is Now!

"The present contains within it every potential of the future. The doorway is now. Your future self is built from what you do with the moment you’re in." – The Daily Coach blog

[Photo: Tom Reaper Chaney/Highland Games]

Challenge #32 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #32 – Effective leaders look back to the past in order to look to the future.

• Facilitate a tactical decision game or premortem exercise with your team.
• Tactical Decision Game Library
• Conduct a debriefing of the situation.
• After Action Reviews
• o Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

IGNITE: Foresee the Unforeseeable

The leader needs to have a sense for the unknowable and be able to foresee the unforeseeable. – The Contemporary Servant as Leader

[Photo: La Grande IHC]

Hazardous Work, Long Hours, and Shared Cultures

Over the last few months, we have seen extraordinary fire behavior to our counterparts up north and a slow start to our normally busy Arizona season which has given me some time to catch up on reading and writing. Which brings me to the focus of this blog—recruitment and retention. Recruitment and retention have been problems for my agency and for everyone around me.

IGNITE: The Gift of Foresight

Foresight is not about looking into a crystal ball to see the future. Foresight is about actively learning. – Justin Irving

[Photo: Canon Helitack]

IGNITE: History Seldom Repeats Itself in the Details

History seldom repeats itself in the details, but frequently does repeat its patterns.- James Sipe and Don Frick, Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership

[Photo: Kyle Miller/Wyoming IHC]