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Book SynopsisFull-Contact Leadership is written for men and women who hold leadership positions or aspire to leadership roles in the fire service.
There are many leadership positions in the fire service, but not all of them are held by leaders. Leadership has very little to do with the colour of your helmet, the bling on your collar, the stripes on your sleeve, the title on your door, the order of march, or the crease in your pants. Full-contact leadership is a commitment to drawing out the very best within others and allowing the very best in others to be expressed as excellence. Full-contact leadership is a career-long, ever-challenging, never-ending, self-initiated, self-sustained personal research, development, and improvement program. Full-contact leadership is never about you; it’s always about them.
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Full-Contact Leadership, Chiefs Flood and Avillo examine what makes a leader and, more importantly, what makes a leader effective in today’s fire service. This text discusses the various types of leaders, how they communicate, discipline, delegate, motivate, and set expectations for the people they lead. Flood and Avillo also take a hard look at what hinders or blocks effective leadership and what steps to take to foster and instill leadership in your department.
Table of ContentsForeword by Thomas Von Essen
PrefaceMission statementEating an elephantAcknowledgmentsIntroductionCh 1: Congratulations on your promotion! Now what?Ch 2: Full-contact leadershipCh 3: Basic styles and functions of leadershipCh 4: Group dynamics and Maslow's Hierarchy of NeedsCh 5: Rank has its privilegesCh 6: The dichotomy of comfortCh 7: PowerCh 8: CommunicationCh 9: DisciplineCh 10: Blocks to effective leadershipCh 11: Casual and sensual leadershipCh 12: Absentee and ambush leadershipCh 13: Morale and motivationCh 14: DelegationCh 15: Setting expectationsCh 16: Coaching and counsellingCh 17: Case study: The senior guyCh 18: Case study: The Powers pre-inspection—Part ICh 19: Case study: The Powers pre-inspection—Part IICh 20: Case study: The Powers pre-inspection—Part IIICh 21: Case study: First-day experienceCh 22: Case study: Ladder 13/32Ch 23: Case study: The myth of the great firefighterOur last word(s): Chief Flood's Perspective ParableIndex
