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Create success through Evidence Based Leadership techniques.
By Mike Phibbs Everyone has read a book with “Leadership” somewhere in the title. Why, we all want to become leaders that inspire and sought after for our sage advice. So, we go to the local book...
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Sage advice from a true American success story.
by Mike Phibbs “In America, you can have anything you want if you are intelligent and have courage.” ~ Reza I want to be a millionaire and so do many of you. Three sage questions arise when we...
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Sage advice from a true American success story.
Sage advice from a true American success story..
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Setting correct priorities makes the difference between mere survival and...
by Mike Phibbs Imagine being dropped off in the woods with only a knife and some rope for your survival. The hours are counting down and you are on the clock to darkness. What are you going to do? Most...
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Old school tangibles versus new school intangibles for motivating and...
by Mike Phibbs I recently read an old school book on leadership. To paraphrase a few lines, the organizations benefit packages are a key driver of motivation. The supervisor can’t influence those...
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Five Critical Skills A Manager Must Master To Effectively Communicate
You can go to any book store and find a plethora of books on the “latest and greatest” perspective on to effectively communicate with individuals, teams, and entire organizations. When you sort through...
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Using the SCARF – Brain Based Model to Make Your Social Media Efforts...
In a never ending endeavor to improve our organizations performance, we are inexorably using social media in hopes it is the panacea to connect our employees to our customers and grow our brands....
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Collaboration over compromise for effective team building.
In today’s use of slang and interchangeability of common words we often lose the meaning and point in everyday conversations. How often to do hear a version of, “You need to compromise”, when trying to...
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Riding The Roller Coaster Of Business Change
While recently attending a conference at the Washington D.C. Head Quarts of SHRM, I saw an interesting curve that is used to implement change. The instructor was 100% accurate that implementing...
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Two rules that must be followed before being promoted.
The hardest day a leader, manager, or supervisor will ever have is the first day in their new position. On the first day, the supervisor comes in with grandiose ideas how they will be the “leader” and...
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Incident Management Team Success is through initial conversations on incidents.
I joing an All Hazards Type 3 Incident Management Team and finally finished of my Operations Section Chief task book. The All Hazards Teams are extremely important in times of emergency. These teams...
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All Hazard Incident Management Teams are there for communities when disasters...
When a hurricane strikes regions of the United States, a tornado tears through a town, a wildfire threatens to engulf thousands of acres and homes a Type 1, Type 2 or Type 3 All Hazards Incident...
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Leaders in 2013 Must Learn and Embrace Diverse Cultures to be Effective
Leaders in 2013 face new challenges as work force demographics change and employees with different cultural histories begin to come into the workforce. I talk to managers and supervisors notice I did...
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Female Firefighters: Demonstrate True Pioneer Spirit
I recently met with a fire chief in the area. During the meeting the topic of females in the fire profession came up. For many organizations, there are only a handful of female firefighters at most....
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Female Firefighter ~ The Pioneering Spirit
By W. Michael Phibbs Over the years I have spoken at a number of leadership conferences aimed at emergency services organizations and personnel on branding themselves. It has led to a number of...
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