Challenge #3 - 2020 WFLDP Campaign

2020 National Wildland Fire Leadership Campaign: Command Presence - Do you know who you are?

Challenge 3:

Responding with “deliberate calm” is important during an emergency.

• Read “Command Presence – Leadership in Emergencies” by Timothy Cummings. (http://ow.ly/IuLz50yapny)

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IGNITE: Space for Transformation

Transformation is possible if we create the space for it to happen. ♦ Shaka Senghor♦

[Photo: Kari Greer/USFS]
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Mann Gulch and the Missing Links

The Mann Gulch tragedy is an event every wildland firefighter should study in depth, but few do. The lessons gleaned from that one incident altered the course of wildland fire. While conducting research for the 2020, I came upon a statement by Sylvia Ann Hewlett about "gravitas" (how you act) that flung me headfirst into today's blog on the missing link from Mann Gulch—Wag Dodge lacked gravitas, the very essence of  command presence:

These qualities connote gravitas, that weightiness or heft that marks you as worth following into the fire. - Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Executive Presence

IGNITE: Taking Care of Your People

Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don't want to. ♦ Richard Branson ♦

[Photo: Kyle Miller/Wyoming IHC]

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Challenge #2: Command Presence - Do you know who you are?

Challenge 2:

• Read Leading in the Wildland Fire Service.
• In your journal, make special notes with regard to command presence.

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IGNITE: Use of Power

The less explicitly leaders rely on power to accomplish tasks, the greater greater their power actually is. - Leading in the Wildland Fire Service, p. 38

[Photo: Feather River Hotshots]

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Crazy Horse - Never Forget Your Dreams

(Credit: Wallace family, 1981)

About 35 years ago, my parents packed up the family and headed for the hills—the hills of South Dakota to be exact. The trip seemed to take forever and as majestic as the Badlands and Mount Rushmore were, one thing stuck in my mind—I didn't see an Indian chief on a horse at that other mountain a few miles down the road from Mt. Rushmore. I have had a fascination with the Crazy Horse memorial ever since.

IGNITE: Do What Is Right

The time is always right to do what is right. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Photo credit: Union IHC

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Challenge 1 - 2020 WFLDP Campaign

Challenge 1:

• In your leadership journal, define “command presence.”
• Watch James Scouller’s “What is presence?” video @ https://youtu.be/1iiK70oGd5M

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IGNITE: Be at Peace With Your Imperfections

To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections." - Simon Sinek

[Photo credit: Kari Greer/USFS]

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