About the Book

Unleash your leadership ability with Forging Your Team

In a profession where excellence isn’t an option, your ability to forge a team that trusts, communicates, and optimizes is the difference between performance and mediocrity. It’s the difference between job satisfaction and being disgruntled. It’s the difference between paycheck employees and masters of the craft.

The fire service demands exceptional teamwork and leadership. However, many leaders struggle with glaring knowledge gaps. Matters of poor communication, practicing archaic methodologies, the lack of a cohesive strategy, and misunderstandings of how teams are formed all contribute to ineffectiveness. Ineffective leaders are the central issue of all first responder problems.

In Forging Your Team, veteran chief officer and team development expert, Dr. JT shares proven strategies and ground-level insights to overcome these challenges. Drawing on decades of experience, Dr. JT provides a comprehensive guide to building resilient teams that will excel in all environments.

Lead with Confidence

Fresh Perspective

This book challenges old ideas and bridges the gaps between theory and practice. You’ll be immersed in a fresh perspective. Forging Your Team will provide practical advice, insightful stories, and actionable steps.

Achieve your goals

With Forging Your Team, you'll learn how to build an optimized first responder team that functions like a family.

Actionable Guidance

Distinguish the differences between groups, crews, and teams
Motivate, influence, and empower employees based on their unique needs
Navigate and implement a proven team development strategy
Identify team development phases
Lead using a relational systems leadership strategy
Trail blaze with confidence and inspire your team to achieve a family atmosphere

Overcome obstacles

Forging Your Team can help you overcome obstacles and setbacks, teaching you how to develop resilience and bounce back stronger than ever.

Boost your confidence

With proven techniques, you'll learn how to boost your team building confidence and become a dynamic leader.

Transform your organization

Unlock your full potential and transform your department with Forging your Team through a holistic approach of developing teams at every level of your organization.

Lead Differently