Dr. Richard Gasaway talks with recently retired Tualatin Valley, OR, Assistant Chief of Operations Paul LeSage about crew resource management (CRM).
LeSage discusses the program that the fire service adapted from the airline industry. He reviews the common misconceptions about CRM and factors about instilling the value of CRM into any fire department.
In this episode of the Leader's Toolbox, Chief Richard B. Gasaway talks with EMS Chief Jon Politis of the Colonie EMS Department in Latham, NY about the "Supervisor's Bootcamp."
Jon, a 30-year veteran of fire and EMS, developed the "Supervisor's Bootcamp" program. They two focus on the challenges supervisors face, especially new supervisors transitioning from buddy to boss.
In this episode of The Leader's Toolbox Dr. Richard B. Gasaway talks with Steve Austin from the Emergency Responder Safety Institute. The Institute is a committee of the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen's Association and serves as an informal advisory panel of public safety leaders committed to reducing deaths and injuries to America's emergency responders.
The Leader's Toolbox host Dr. Richard B. Gasaway talks with Battalion Chief Steve Prziborowski talks about promotional exams.
The two look at the best methods to prepare for promotional exams and interviews as a firefighter looks to move up the career ladder. Chief Prziborowski shares a number of common factors that keep candidates from making it to the next step and also offers insight on the grading process.
In this episode of the Leader's Toolbox, host Dr. Richard B. Gasaway focuses on the Everyone Goes Home initiative and the Courage To Be Safe program.
Chief Gasaway interviews Ron Dennis, executive director of the Arizona Fire Chiefs Association and the training liaison for the Everyone Goes Home initiative. He also talks with Billy Hayes, director of community affairs for the Washington, DC, Fire Department and the advocate manager for the initiative.
Host Dr. Richard B. Gasaway talks with Ponderosa, TX, Fire Chief Fred Windisch about alternative staffing models.
Chief Windisch emphasizes the importance of identifying the root problems with your department's staffing to help keep the proper number of members on the street. The two discuss the value of being "mission-centric" and the need to evaluate your organization's and community's needs.
In this edition of The Leader's Toolbox host Richard B. Gasaway interviews Mary Marchone, Community Risk Reduction Program Specialist at the National Fire Academy.
Dr. Richard B. Gasway talks with leadership consultant Howard Cross about his program "Leadership - The Seductive Lie."
Cross shares the components of strong leadership and discusses why leadership is not a position. Rather it is a set of choices and those choices can, at times, be challenging.
Cross and Gasaway also discuss the role of vision in setting the course for an organization and the part that leaders and followers play in creating organizational success.
Dr. Richard Gasaway talks with Dr. Bill Jenaway, Executive Vice President of the Volunteer Firemen's Insurance Service, Inc. (VFIS) on this edition of the Leader's Toolbox. They discuss Jenaway's recent program, "Arriving Safe at the Scene and the Station," from Fire Rescue International. Dr. Jenaway, also a Pennsylvania fire chief, shares his perspective on the challenges of vehicle safety. He shares several best practices for agencies to implement and simple first steps to help kick off a driver safety program.
This month on the Leader's Toolbox, Dr. Richard Gasaway talks with Battalion Chief Mark Emery of the Woodinville, WA, Fire & Life Safety District on the topic of aggressive strategy.
