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Flow-Based Leadership
What the Best Firefighters Can Teach You About Leadership & Making Hard Decisions
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Have you ever arrived on the scene of a house fire to find a frantic woman in the driveway? As a firefighter, you know instinctively what this means: there is a child inside. You immediately enter the zone, because you know what to do. This is based on your training and experience. The feeling of being in the zone, is referred to in the field of positive psychology as the flow. Multiple studies have shown that, if people have the proper training and experience, they will make better decisions in emerging situations while in a flow-state. How can your organisation help your people experience flow more often, thereby improving their decision-making? This book describes what flow is and what flow-based decision-making and flow-based leadership look like. It also details a flow-based leadership model for implementation, based on an extreme, experiential training program in the fire service called Georgia Smoke Diver (GSD). This model consists of: Leading by example. Communicating purpose. Committing to a stable infrastructure. Binding the group through ritual, knowledge sharing, and collaboration. Honouring individual creativity to promote innovation. Using positive motivation techniques. Facilitating team flow. GSDs success and longevity is a result of rigorous commitment to this model that helps firefighters stay safe, ensure excellence, and live a life of well-being, both personally and professionally. It is a model any organisation can adopt to better the lives of the people within the organisation and the lives of the people the organisation serves.
Judith ("Judy") L. Glick-Smith, Ph.D., has been a communication expert, knowledge architect, and organizational development consultant since 1983. She is the founder of MentorFactor, Inc., which focuses on helping organizations facilitate flow-based work environments. Judy has been studying flow-based decision making and leadership in the fire service since 2007. Her Ph.D. is in Transformative Studies with a concentration in Integral Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has a Master of Science in Conflict Management from Kennesaw State University. She lives in the Atlanta metro area with her two English Springer Spaniels and near her daughter and two granddaughters. You can reach her at judy@mentorfactorinc.com.
- ISBN-13
- 9781634621342
- Publisher
- Technics Publications Llc (US)
- Imprint
- Technics Publications LLC (US)
- Publication date
- 1 September 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 200
- Dimensions
- 230 x 155 mm
- Language
- English
