Full-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 color 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.
In 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.'
Foreword by Thomas Von Essen
Preface
Mission Statement
Eating an Elephant
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 : Congratulations on Your Promotion! Now What?
Chapter 2 : Full-Contact Leadership
Chapter 3 : Basic Styles and Functions of Leadership
Chapter 4 : Group Dynamics and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Chapter 5 : Rank Has Its Privileges
Chapter 6 : The Dichotomy of Comfort
Chapter 7 : Power
Chapter 8 : Communication
Chapter 9 : Discipline
Chapter 10 : Blocks to Effective Leadership
Chapter 11 : Casual and Sensual Leadership
Chapter 12 : Absentee and Ambush Leadership
Chapter 13 : Morale and Motivation
Chapter 14 : Delegation
Chapter 15 : Setting Expectations
Chapter 16 : Coaching and Counseling
Chapter 17 : Case Study : The Senior Guy
Chapter 18 : Case Study : The Powers Preinspection - Part I
Chapter 19 : Case Study : The Powers Preinspection - Part II
Chapter 20 : Case Study : The Powers Preinspection - Part III
Chapter 21 : Case Study : First-Day Experience
Chapter 22 : Case Study : Ladder 13/32
Chapter 23 : Case Study : The Myth of The Great Firefighter
Our Last Word(S) : Chief Flood's Perspective Parable
Index
