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Passionate Leadership
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2. Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service
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Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

3. Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service
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Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

5. Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service
Presenter
Scott Magers has over 36 years in the fire service. He is currently the Fire Chief of the Hillsboro Fire Department, in Hillsboro Oregon. He is an NFPA Fire Officer 4 and a graduate of the National Fire Academy. Chief Magers also serves as an Type 1 Incident Commander of one of the three Incident Management Teams for the Oregon State Fire Marshals Office.
Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

6. Leadership You think your ready to step up?
Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

7. Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service
“Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible”
General Colin Powell (Ret)
Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

8. Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service
Pick the right person
Lead, Follow or Get out of the way
Pick the right person for the job!
Avoid the Peter Principle
Education
Experience
Don’t pick the person everyone likes, pick the person who people will learn to respect, you may find it’s the same person.
Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

9. Pitfalls of Some Leaders
They can become a little full of themselves!
They are the smartest person in the room!
Do as I say not as I do!
They over promise and under deliver!
They just can’t stop talking!
Its all about them!
Being wrong is not an option!
They wont grow within the job!
Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

10. Qualities of Good Leaders
Surround yourself with good people or help the people you have be better.
They are not the most important person on the team!
Your rank is a title, not a definition of who you are as a person.
Realistically promise, over deliver!
Check you ego at the door!
Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

11. Qualities of Good Leaders
Provide a Vision and Direction!
Support your people they matter the most, but hold them accountable.
If you take care of them, the will take care of you.
Teaching and supporting will always be better than discipline.
The team gets the wins, you get the loses!
Sometimes its better to ask for forgiveness than permission!
Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

12. Qualities of Good Leaders
The most important member of your team is the person struggling the most.
Don’t be afraid to jump into the trenches and help your team be successful
They make the hard right decision and not the easy wrong one.
They show confidence publicly and worry privately
Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

13. Qualities of Good Leaders
Their success is measured by the success of those that work for them. You want your people to take your job when your done with it.
Do not let the nay Sayers stand in your way.
Follow the 40/70 rule
Recognize that when the hair on the back of their neck stands up it means something.
Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

14. Thoughts from General Powell
“The day your people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either way is a failure to lead.” General Colin Powell (Ret.)
Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service

15. Thoughts from General Powell
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier”
General Colin Powell (Ret.)
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16. Thoughts from General Powell
“ Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand”
General Colin Powell (Ret.)
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So, Are you ready?
Passionate Leadership in the Fire Service