FIRE CHIEF COACHING
LEADERSHIP BETWEEN THE ALARMS
Helping fire chiefs strategically leverage and improve their leadership in the fire service.
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Fire Chiefs Struggle
Fire chiefs are tasked with a near-impossible mission. Keep the tradition of the fire service sacred and progress with society. No wonder why fire chiefs struggle.
Fire chiefs must balance everything perfectly. All relationships must be in perfect harmony. Their time must have perfect distribution among all parties. They must have a vision that perfectly ties to the past and the future with the right balance. No wonder why fire chiefs struggle.
Fire chiefs have a small window to make the biggest impact. In the past, chiefs used to remain in agencies for a longer period of time. Today chiefs are lucky to get five years. No wonder why fire chiefs struggle.
Fire chiefs exit organizations for a multitude of reasons. Some leave due to political differences. Others leave due to lawsuits or inability to perform their job. No matter how you slice it, fire chiefs do not last long in their positions. No wonder why fire chiefs struggle.
Fire chiefs resemble CEOs of companies. However, the fire service possesses extra elements even CEOs do not experience. With all the extra elements and the job of running an organization, fire chiefs are still challenged. All the training, education, mentorship, or coaching may not be enough to help fire chiefs. Again, no wonder why fire chiefs struggle.
The struggles above are a fraction of the reason why I have pivoted to coaching fire chiefs.
The fire service needs fire chiefs to succeed. Fire agencies need their Chiefs to succeed. Chiefs need to succeed for their own personal reasons as well.
This is my call to service.
I help FIRE CHIEFS STRUGGLING.
Those struggling with their frustration of ineffectiveness, chaos & complexity.
Chiefs drained and not able to be productive in leadership.
I do this so they can lead themselves, their organizations, members, and citizens well.
ABOUT JARED BUCKLEY| Fire Chief Coaching on Leadership
Fire Service Leadership is Challenged by New Personnel & Societal Norms
Jared Buckley has coached, trained, and lead fire chiefs and officers over the past 5 years on how to grow their leadership ability. His primary focus in leadership is emotional intelligence. When he coaches or trainers chief officers, he focuses on improving their unconscious behaviors that are significant indicators to their success and well-being. In addition, Coach Buckley will work teams and working relationships that are struggling or need some alteration to get to higher performance.
Fire Service’s Gap in Leadership
The fire service is filled with exceptional leaders serving their crews, members, organizations, and citizens. There is no denying the amount of leaders that fill up the fire service. Yet, there still remains a gap in leadership with the fire service.
The leadership gap doesn’t exist in the people, but the promotion of leaders beyond their leadership capability. The Peter Principle, a popular term in the business sector, is the concept of a professional who “rises to the level of their incompetence.” The fire service is really good at this.
Great firefighters do not equate to high performing company officers. High-performing Battalion Chiefs does not mean they will be great Assistant Chiefs, Deputy Chiefs, or Fire Chiefs. Good or great in one position, does not predict accurately high-performance in their promotion.
Fire personnel fail in leadership roles when they promote to their level of incompetence. Unfortunately, the fix is not in the selection process, but in the further development of a leaders’ next promotion.
Executive leadership development, success planning, and onboarding of executive chief officers are all areas that exist as gaps in the fire service. And an even bigger issue to all of this is the shifting of vision, mission, and values with every new fire chief.
Fire organizations that put their resources into shoring up these issues or even addressing these issues, will set themselves up to have a higher likelihood of success. It doesn’t guarantee anything, but unaddressed, it will shatter fire agencies.
COACHING| Executive Coaching for Fire Chiefs in Modern World
Fire Service Leadership Coaching
Coaching in the sports world is normal. In the business sector, coaching executives is also common. However, coaching in the fire service is largely quiet. Of course there are plenty of mentors and associations providing support, encouragement, and direction in the fire service, but coaching still remains a rarity.
Coach Buckley’s coaching started in the sports world, moved into business, and now has completely shifted to the fire service. Coach helps leaders in the fire service, specifically fire chiefs, elevate the necessary intangible skills to succeed as a chief officer and leader. Buckley’s coaching strategies include emotional intelligence coaching, reframing mindsets, stress empowerment, and much more. Feel free to reach out to learn more.
Fire Chiefs Need to be Transformational Leaders
There are many different types of leaders in this world. The fire service needs fire chiefs that transform the lives of their firefighters, officers, chiefs, administrative staff, labor, citizens, and all others connected to the fire service.
While fire chiefs in the past have been the best firefighters, today, the fire service has evolved into much more than firefighting. Communities look to the firefighters and agencies as an agent of help. This is why fire chiefs must become transformational leaders rather than transactional leaders.
Transformational leaders change lives. They are selfless and have an internal conviction to make people’s lives better. These leaders start first from a posture of humility and then move into integrity and unwavering strength.
Fire chiefs who can excel in leadership to be a change catalyst, charismatic influencer, inspiring visionary, and transcending believer in people, become a true transformational leader in the fire service.
TRAINING| Team Performance, Emotional Intelligence, & Stress
Training in Fire Service
When it comes to training, Jared Buckley is committed to elevating the skills and abilities of leaders in the fire service in today’s world. The topics typically covered are performance skills, team building, leadership development, stress, and more. In addition, there usually is a twist to apply the uniqueness to these topics in each fire agency.
Trainings are done in-person typically, but can also be done through webinars and group calls. Reach out to find out more that would best fit your team and agency.
Fire Service Leadership & Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is a term that has really picked up steam in the business world around leadership. Ironically, the fire service deals with more emotions than most industries and the need for high emotionally intelligent leaders is crucial.
Many firefighters and officers have developed emotional intelligence over the years, but just didn’t know what it was called. However, there are plenty of other firefighters and officers extremely deficient in emotional intelligence.
Whether firefighters are dealing with PTSD or PTSI, controlling the emotional scenes on calls, or working the chemistry of their crews, emotional intelligence is at the center of it all.
When fire agencies and leadership put resources into elevating their agency’s and leadership team’s leadership through emotional intelligence training, educating, coaching, and programs, it improves everyone’s well-being. The fire service’s culture will drastically improve as well.
Now is the time to really pour into emotional intelligence development within the fire service and fire leadership.
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.” – Eckart Tolle
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