Leadership Articles and Podcast Conversations

Key takeaways from this article: Fire stations can be categorized into five cultural types. Developing a firehouse culture requires upholding high standards, focusing on relationships, and building teams at all organizational levels.

This article helps go-getters when overachieving makes you a target.

Your job as a fire service leader, no matter the rank, is to build teams. This article explains how to do that.

An article that draws comparisons between the pump panel and the mechanisms that control personal energy.

Leadership Licensing Theory parallels Moral Licensing Theory. Take a read and see how good leaders may go bad. 

Disrespect the norm and take a new approach to leading in your current position.

Discover what a team is and the phases of team development like you've never seen before.

A quick read for Fire and Chief Officers just starting out.

This article provides useful tools to prevent burnout, to physically and mentally decompress, and a strategy for implementation.

Learn how leaders can become disillusioned by their rank or past successes.

Take a deep dive into novel approaches of team building and leadership.

Team development, generational gaps and self-leadership. We talk about it all. Give it a listen and learn what it takes to lead in today's fire service.

This is a reading of one of my most popular articles. Listen to the article and the commentary on it. Better Every Shift - Extra Alarm: Borrowing from business simply doesn’t work for the fire service.

This podcast tells the story of Dr. JT and explores generational gaps in the fire service, focusing on how to lead through various challenges. 

In the inaugural episode of Igniting the Shift Within, host David Dachinger talks with Johnny Torgeson about Forging your team.  They discuss his journey, and wrap up with three take-aways. 

Understand the phases of team development by listening to this podcast with SA Matters.

In this podcast, we dive into multiple aspects of leadership. We talk about self-leadership, leading a team, changing culture, and building relationships.