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Unit 1
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I work as a fireman soon to be promoted to captain, as I reflect on my position, I consider myself an active follower. I know my job and can do it competently and effectively. I work well with others and have built a trust with my crew. However, I do at times push my scope of authority and strive for my vision of aspiration. I am not one to accept the minimum standard of myself or my crew. I do my best to keep an open mind when situations are brought from above or below. Learning from each individual situation and adapting it to the needs of everyone is an ability I believe I possess. No one situation is alike, and I believe that we must all keep in mind water bowls form the bottom up, ideas can come from anywhere. I am open to change most of the time. I believe that with change comes a better understanding of the original problem even if it is not bettering the situation in the long run. With change needs to come evaluation. I learned today that developing skills to present change is often key to combat the negative mindset that comes with change. Through continued education and job performance I will keep my skills sharp.
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Personally, and professionally, I think my key area for development is the relationship I have and create with people. I am often uncomfortable around new people and tend not to speak up as often as I should. I would like to say I am open minded and adaptive, but I know I can easily shut down. I must learn to stay on a professional level and not get entangled with emotions. I feel like sometimes I need to sit back and listen more and allow others to succeed or learn from their mistakes. I also need to develop working with individuals within their place on the learning curve, being situationally aware of their level and not treating it the same as others who may be at different levels. Learning how develop the bridge between the gap of the current situation and the aspired one is a skill I need to develop more as well. It is easy to say that something is not working but finding the proper solution and making others up stand that aspired solution can be difficult.
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Unit 2
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The knowledge behind knowing what communication is helps to achieve the objectives. No matter the type of communication verbal or nonverbal you must understand the process of communication. The idea, the message, the receiver, the feedback are formal parts of communication and knowing and finding any issue in this process can help clear communication. Knowing the time and a place for what you are communicating is also desirable trait. Certain situations call for certain types of communication, professional or personal, written or verbal, and even the location cannot sure adequate communication. I believe I often have the tendency to have a crucial conversation with people that I have grown to know. In my experience if these are not well prepared or time, they tend to end with nothing accomplished. I will continue to sharpen my communication skills as I continue education and work, this is a skill we are never in short supply to work on but rarely do.
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My communication skills need much improvement. I believe this is probably one of my biggest downfalls. I am often told this by people who also need improvement in this area and personal I think most individual could more education in communications. My biggest ability that needs improvement are nonverbal cues. Facial expressions are probably the biggest ability that I need to develop I often show expressions that are not appropriate for effective communication and tend to get me in a bind. I am also aware of times as the receiver I’ve been shut down and not opening to listening to other people’s situations. I must remember that effectively communicate every individual involved must be open to listening. Miscommunications happen in many industries and I feel it is key to always seek out information on how to better communicate and grow our knowledge of the subject. We have every opportunity to sharpen the skills in the workplace but failed to do so every day.
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Unit 3
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Developing my skills on how to use power and to use it appropriate can most definitely be fine too. I often fall back on the specific mindset when involved in a stressful situation to be able to correctly think through a stressful situation and find a solution in a timely manner using the appropriate power can help to diffuse stress much easier. Using ethics and morals to help make these decisions can assist but also at time can hinder. Often ethics and morals tend to have a gray area that often 2 right decisions fall into, but which one is the best. Being able to keep a clear and open mind and leave out any bias can help to assist in how you use and flex your power and authority. This can also help to defuse a stressful situation. Though this can be hard to do at times because we always try and relate to previous a events. This is where stay away from generalizing and stereotyping can help to formulate our own un basis opinion. I tend to fall back on the easiest form of power that i know Which for me is most often formal power which allows you just to tell in individual to get things done because of the position that you hold. This is not the correct handling because ultimately resentment and distrust can be built in the crew.
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Unit 4
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Today clarity has been brought forth on how I perceive passive and active engagement. I believe majority rule before discussing active engagement usually active meant positive attitude whereas passive was negative and not caring forward the situation. I now realize engagements either passive or active is a behavior. It’s not necessarily negative or positive it is how we perceive the engagement altogether. You can be passively engaged in a situation by actively listening in the conversation without participating often without participating often. This creates a knowledge that there is a time and a place for passive and active engagement. Many factors come into play when deciding when to be passive or active. Passive or active all starts with the individual’s behavior. This is the point where we start to define what the problem is, knowing now that the problem is the gap between the current and aspired state the vision is to make it to the aspired state where we want to be. Your interpersonal skills and communications allow you to successfully reach the root of the problem and for a solution. There are eight steps to solving the first is identifying the problem but how to define the problem I feel is probably the toughest part of the process. Your goal is to get to the root of the problem and not just solve it in a technical matter.
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I think trying to develop my perception of a passive individual would be the biggest knowledge skills and abilities I need to develop after the class. I think it will be much easier because I now know and have a different viewpoint on what passive and active engagement can be. Knowing that someone who appears passive can simply engage in their own way is a perception need to learn. Also knowing that being too active can be perceived as negative is something that I’ve never actually considered. In my department I would say I am a very active component in a leadership role I now realize the times that I possibly have been to active and discouraged others from potentially being more active this is something I will take back with me to my department and remember to help develop others in their leadership. Problem solving skills is another skill and I also feel I need to develop. Now that I know the eight problems for solving problems, I will team to continue to use these or any problems that I encounter hoping to gain a greater knowledge in efficiency in the skills of problem-solving. Asking why five times has been a very popular topic in this conversation and I believe that it will be very beneficial in the future for my problem-solving abilities. I also believe that PTA Pause Think Answer is a great in adaptive work to help overcome conflict and keep any conversation on track.
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Unit 5
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Mindset for me is something that can make or break a department. It is the culture that has been built throughout the department. Mindset is a subjective term; however, my mindset can be different from that of my organizations which then creates a problem. Mindset is set by someone’s behavior. To change behavior can take drastic measures. First other individuals have to be open with a growth mindset they have to be willing to take in different ideas and different examples. The fixed mindset is what we develop as soon as we start the job we see our superiors and other firemen doing what we come to know is the job but who is to determine if they’re doing it adequately appropriately all right. In the event that they’re not doing it right how do you change their mindset? That all is going to begin and start with their behavior you must change your behavior so that you change their perception and change your norms. This is a difficult thing to accomplish because most times our mind is true to define and see more negatively it is positively. You have to break free from this cognitive ease to where you fall back on and what is easy to break in to Cardiff train where you start to think through it develop and spend more time thinking on current issues this is the process that helps us Begin to take it develop an emergency. Afternoon decision baking process I think you have to sit back and look at what is needed knowing when to ask for help and went to go out alone could be beneficial in the decision making process for my leader ship style I believe that normally I rely on the consulting model. I gather information to help dissect the information that brought in a gather information just to help look for solutions but in the end ultimately usually decide to make the decision alone and allowed to follow my shoulders. As I look at the characteristics of an affective decision-maker I feel that I have several of these characteristics I have the opportunity to develop the more and helping me to become a better decision maker and hopefully throughout class I will continue to develop and throughout my career I will continue to develop so that I can make this go to sessions look easy.
Developing the mindset of every individual can be very difficult I think primarily we have to focus on her own mindset remember to stay positive to stay actively engaged and be beneficial to the department in anyway possible. I think that the mindset that out of you can influence others and potentially start to change the culture of the environment that we’re in. Developing the process of how to create the right mindset is all based on perception. I have a perception of what are determined my department she look like however there are many in my department that may not like the looks of it. I have to develop and find ways to overcome that attitude not only their attitude but my attitude finding ways to get all the way to Mars bars state is not necessarily the car wash and he look for compromise will be a big goal in the process of developing a mindset for your department. This is part of how we begin to develop the decision making process
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