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Moving into a leadership role can be an exhilarating and proud moment; it can also be a daunting one. No matter whether you’re paid or volunteer, working for a department large or small, all new leaders face similar career development opportunities and administrative challenges. To be a successful new leader, you will need to identify the support systems, processes and tools to maximize the opportunities and clear the hurdles.

FireRescue1’s Fire Leader Playbook is one such tool to increase your effectiveness as a new leader, helping enhance your leadership KSAs, develop trust among your crewmembers, and build your confidence. The Playbook offers a wealth of resources, as you grow into your position of authority and move beyond basic management and supervision skills to lead and inspire with integrity and passion.

What you do, how you act and the relationships you build now matter down the road, so get out of your comfort zone, put in the work and enjoy the ride
LEADERSHIP IN FOCUS
Be intentional in your focus on personal, organizational and political areas of growth
Recent actions (and cautious optimism) suggest a finely tuned performance ahead from our fire service organizations
Successful management of long-term apparatus purchasing requires an all-hands approach at the fire department’s strategic, organizational and task levels
Mayday training, preplanning, mutual-aid agreements and scene size-ups emerge as common themes in major incidents
A recent poll of FireRescue1 readers found a majority strongly favored one side of the issue
The Snyder Fire Department’s new four-phase recruitment strategy is already showing results
From setting clear expectations to sharing feedback, simple actions can go a long way to establish yourself as a trusted team member
Focus your discussions instead on when and where to mask up, how to deploy the hoseline, and what should occur in rehab
The surge of lightweight construction across the country underscores the need to look to the future of community development
We will remember the first chief to purchase an all-electric fire apparatus, not the chief who bought the department’s last internal combustion engine