As we enter 2023, the future of work has become the now of work. Many of the changes which started during the pandemic were accelerated and have become permanent aspects of our working lives. Workplace stress is on the rise and companies are creating workplaces to be engines of well-being.
A stay interview is a tool organizations use to gauge why their (high-performing) employees are staying with them. It’s a rather informal conversation between a manager and an employee in which the former asks the latter a predetermined set of questions. It’s about gathering valuable feedback from your employees and continuously improving employee satisfaction and …
Having talented employees leave your organization can also cause strain on existing employees that have to take on extra work until those roles can be filled. Given this, retaining your top employees should be a priority. Here are eight tips for keeping your very best employees.
Exit interviews are too late to start the conversation about why people are leaving. We should do entry to interviews to find out why they joined—and stay interviews to figure out how to keep them.
Do you remember the last time you were in a job interview and were asked about your long-term career goals? If you’re like most people, you probably had a canned answer prepared that involved wanting to be promoted to a management position within the next five years. The problem with this type of thinking is …
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Ethics in the fire service are not a given. Even with the strong overall culture in the fire service, individual departments can become toxic places to work if a healthy culture isn’t maintained. Fire departments must create and sustain a culture that encourages integrity, open communication, trust, and ethical behavior.
Federal law has prohibited sexual harassment in the workplace for over 40 years. For decades, fire departments and EMS agencies have provided mandatory training on the topic to all members. Some high-profile cases have resulted in large financial penalties and very bad publicity for those departments.
This training is a roundtable discussion between five fire service leaders about how to create change in the fire service and lead a culture of safety. The roundtable discusses how to lead an organization where safety in fire service is a primary focus, including making safety a priority, handling resistance, extending responsible behavior modeling to …
The FDNY will ring in 2023 by appointing its first Black EMS chief to lead New York City’s emergency medical technicians and paramedics, the Daily News has learned. Deputy Assistant Chief of EMS Operations Michael Fields will take over the top spot effective Jan. 1, FDNY officials confirmed Friday. He is replacing retiring EMS Chief …
We’re getting close to the end of another year, and this one, like the last few, seems to have been pretty difficult in a lot of ways. Things are looking a little murky as we try to see the future of the fire service. Of course, firefighters in general can be just a bit pessimistic. …
