Ch 5 Call To Action

Question 1

An organized leader will have short range, mid range and long range goals and they are defined as:

Answer 1

• Short range - within 30 days or fewer (most common, most frequently set on fireground)
• Mid range - 30 days up to one year
• Long range - anything after one year (Big Picture)

Question 2

Effective communicators are:

3 C’s

Answer 2

• Clear
• Confident
• Consistent

Question 3

Every adversity you and your team will ever encounter is either a problem or an opportunity. Although one may think there are many different variables that would distinguish one from the other, there is really only one difference between the two?

Answer 3

Attitude

Question 4

Problems are obstacles but leadership is about overcoming obstacles. The level of success you and your team will achieve will be in direct proportion to your ability to

Answer 4

Adapt and overcome

Question 5

These exist everywhere, but they are often disguised as challenges or problems

Answer 5

Opportunities

Question 6

The next time, you’re in a room full of your peers, look around and pick the person who has achieved the highest level of success. You will also be looking at the person who has failed the most. These people look at challenges and failure differently from most.

They understand that ______is not the developer of character.______ is the greatest revealer of character.

Answer 6

Crisis

Question 7

The best way to overcome adversity is to _____, and you can only do this by ______.

Answer 7

• FACE it head on
• STEPPING out of your comfort zone

Question 8

What are the five components to making high-pressure decisions?

Answer 8

• Situational awareness (gather data
  and facts)
• Set a goal
• Risk versus reward
• Input from others
• Take action (develop action plan, put in action)

Question 9

When discussing leadership and the TEAM, one of the keys to change is to what?

Answer 9

Recruit your top influential TEAM members and utilize their strengths

Question 10

Six signs for determining personal maturity

Answer 10

1) thankful
2) humble
3) edifying (how to encourage) - don’t
always need to be right
4) patient (delayed gratification)
5) skillful
6) well-developed in people skills

Question 11

Your skills and traits will provide you with a great foundation but what ultimately determines how strong a leader you will become?

Answer 11

Your dominant thought (what you think about the most)

Question 12

Goals, both formal and informal, should exist at all levels of an organization. At the highest level, having long range goals is often referred to as?

Answer 12

Having Vision

Question 13

According to the author, it’s more important for a team, or an individual for that matter, to know the _____, then to focus on the ____.

The ____ fuels the team.

Answer 13

• Why (what he/she wants to accomplish)
• How (work needed to be done)
• Why

Question 14

On the fireground, we have 3 constant goals that are: L.I.P.

Answer 14

• Protect life
• Stabilize the incident
• Conserve property

Question 15

Goals and dreams may seem as if they are the same thing but they are not. A ______ is something you want to accomplish, your final destination.

Answer 15

• Dream (provide fuel)

Question 16

Having big dreams is important, but this is what makes a person or team successful

Answer 16

Setting and achieving goals

Question 17

These are dreams with deadlines on them

Answer 17

Goals

Question 18

Part of being a results oriented team leader is the process of goal setting, because goals enable you to:

Answer 18

Measure your progress

Question 19

When discussing goals versus dreams, make it a policy that you will set between ____ and ____ goals at a time. If more than ____ goals are attempted, efforts may become diffused and unfocused.

Answer 19

• 2-5
• 5

Question 20

For goals to be effective, they must be attainable and measurable.

What means that each individual and/or the team as a whole will be able to complete the goal within the determined timeframe?

Answer 20

Attainable

Question 21

If your goals are not well defined or measurable, they are ______.

____ cannot be readily achieved and are apt to result in frustration.

Answer 21

Nonspecific goals

Question 22

With goal setting, this mark is an important one because it takes this long to create a habit?

Answer 22

30 days

(95% New Year’s resolution give up before 30 days)

Question 23

Concerning the Ten Goal Setting tips, and Step Number 1, Be Decisive, one of the biggest, most common mistakes teams make is to?

Answer 23

Lack clarity

Question 24

Concerning the Ten Goal Setting Tips, Step 3, Put it on Paper, states the following information should be written (4)

Answer 24

• Name of the goal
• Deadline of the goal
• PRIORITY of goal
• How the goal will be measured

Question 25

Step 4 Plan as a Team: The more work you do on the front end of the goalsetting process, the better chance you will have at what?

Answer 25

Revealing obstacles early on and developing a strong game plan

Question 26

Step 5, Take Action with specific Intent Encouraging your team members to ___ will be taking action with specific intent

Answer 26

Think the SAME way

Question 27

Step 5, Take Action was Specific Intent If it becomes obvious to you that your desired goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust ____, adjust ____.

Answer 27

- The goals - The action steps

Question 28

When communicating your message, remember the three C’s of effective communicators:

Answer 28

- Clear - Confident - Consistent

Question 29

The biggest mistake that people leadership positions make, when attempting to COMMUNICATE with others is that they ______.

Answer 29

Lack clarity

Question 30

This is the glue that holds the bond of brotherhood together

Answer 30

Trust

Question 31

Once you make the decision to lead, you’ll be under pressure to reconsider your choice, to compromise, to change courses, or to give up. It’s important to recognize the fact that the world’s job is to:

Answer 31

Get you to lower your standards

Question 32

As a leader, you will _____ and those you’re leading need to see this

Answer 32

Also take risks

Question 33

Goals and dreams may seem as if they are the same thing but they are not. _____ are what get you there

Answer 33

Goals

Question 34

Every adversity you and your team will ever encounter is either ____ or ____.

Answer 34

- A problem - An opportunity

Question 35

As a leader, you need to be able to see how much of the goals completed while the team is working on the goal. This is the definition of what?

Answer 35

Measurable