The acute need for leadership is often most visible in crisis.īut the need for leadership shows up daily when something impacting a group needs group action to change, be different, be improved, be created or be stopped. The need for leadership shows up when there is a need for a group of people to collectively move toward a goal or destination.
Many are called leaders, but there is often a wide gap between the title and the actual practice of leadership. Is that charismatic speaker at the national conference a model of leadership?.Is the head of your association actually leading the members somewhere?.Are the people tasked with leading EMS in the federal government exercising leadership?.Is your state EMS director providing leadership of EMS in your state?.Are most EMS agencies truly led or simply managed?.Does the title of director, administrator, manager, supervisor, executive or chief guarantee leadership?.Can someone manage an EMS agency without providing leadership?.Does calling someone a leader make them a leader?.To stir the pot around this topic, consider the following questions: But there is little clarity about what leadership is - and, consequently, little clarity about how to develop leadership in others. Others are talking about creating a ladder where field providers can move from the field to supervision to management and so on. Some are talking about mastering a set of officer competencies. Some are talking about the knowledge and skills needed to manage an EMS operation such as budgeting, deployment strategies and human resource management. Welcome to Paramedic Chief, a new e-newsletter tailored specifically for EMS industry leaders.
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