Full-Contact Leadership is written for men and women who hold leadership positions or aspire to leadership roles in the fire service. There are many leadership positions in the fire service, but not all of them are held by leaders. Leadership has very little to do with the colour of your helmet, the bling on your collar, the stripes on your sleeve, the title on your door, the order of march, or the crease in your pants. Full-contact leadership is a commitment to drawing out the very best within others and allowing the very best in others to be expressed as excellence. Full-contact leadership is a career-long, ever-challenging, never-ending, self-initiated, self-sustained personal research, development, and improvement program. Full-contact leadership is never about you; it's always about them. In Full-Contact Leadership, Chiefs Flood and Avillo examine what makes a leader and, more importantly, what makes a leader effective in today's fire service. This text discusses the various types of leaders, how they communicate, discipline, delegate, motivate, and set expectations for the people they lead. Flood and Avillo also take a hard look at what hinders or blocks effective leadership and what steps to take to foster and instill leadership in your department.

When the correct expectations are set and followed, the fireground generally runs safer and more efficiently. Chief Anthony Avillo walks us through those expectations with his steps of fireground control. Going from pre-fire planning through post-control operations, Chief Avillo illustrates how creating an appropriate command structure and communicating effectively within that structure - both up and down the chain of command - creates an environment that is both safe and effective. Includes: Pre-fire planning Scene size-up Arrival report/Preliminary size-up report Strategy determination Initial progress report Decentralization Feedback/Evaluation/Adjustment Continuing progress reports Post-control operations

Firefighters spend 99% of their time away from the fireground. Yet the actions, discipline, and leadership demonstrated in this "soft environment" drive the results in what presenter Chief Anthony Avillo calls "the hard environment." In this 90-minute classroom session, Avillo examines the preparation, attitude, and philosophical approach needed to be successful in the fire service, as well as the operational and organizational skills critical for working in the stressful environment of the fireground.
This course looks at the importance of setting expectations, providing a proper example, and developing conflict-resolution skills. Avillo guides his students to ask the important questions: - What kind of officer am I or will I become? - What is the nature of my department? - Am I an officer who looks out for my subordinates? - Do I practice what I preach?
Approx. 115 minutes/DVD

A 30-year veteran of the fire service, Chief Avillo has updated his widely adopted book, Fireground Strategies. The new third edition of Fireground Strategies is written from the viewpoint of the fire officer who must identify a strategy, develop an action plan, and implement tactics to meet that plan's objectives. Used together, Fireground Strategies and the Scenarios Workbook provide reinforcing guides for assuming a role on the fireground and making decisions aimed at bringing the incident to a safe and successful conclusion. The new third edition includes expanded incident command chapters, new street-level strategies focusing on the modern fire environment, the latest attack/ventilation study information, expanded resource management and risk management sections, strategic considerations of solar panels, new case studies, and more!

In the new second edition of the Scenarios Workbook, Chief Avillo presents all new scenarios, taking advantage of his method of achallenge-based learninga to reinforce the lessons learned from the Fireground Strategies textbook. As with his first Scenarios Workbook, the new edition is a workable study guide that serves as a companion to the textbook, giving students the opportunity to test themselves in simulated fireground situations.

Following each scenario section, there are multiple-choice and short-answer questions, along with answers and explanations. Chief Avillo has provided in-depth explanations of answers to help students understand the reason for the strategy or tactic.

This new edition of the Scenarios Workbook is a must-have companion to the third edition of Fireground Strategies. The workbook provides a collection of hypothetical fireground situations with questions regarding command concerns for each scenario. It contains both short-answer questions as well as multiple-choice to reinforce the lessons learned in the book.