Leadership Sector

Leadership Sector: Employees with ink

Are patients and family members likely to consider tattoos on EMTs and paramedics an art form or self-expression, or will they think the providers

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008

Growing Diversity: Do race & culture matter in EMS?

When a workforce becomes diverse and understands diversity, it becomes stronger.

Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Using 360-degree Evaluations to Assess your Leadership Style

When was the last time you conducted a 360-degree evaluation, a feedback tool that gives peers and subordinates the opportunity to rate and evaluate their manager?„

Posted Wednesday, October 8, 2008

The Few, The Proud: How to motivate your employees Marine-style

So how can you successfully motivate an employee who's part of the entitlement generation and expects instant gratification?

Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The Dysfunction Test: The biggest symptoms of inefficiency & unrest

EMS systems are measured by their save rate on out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and by their response times. These are things that can be measured. But what about things we don't traditionally measure in our systems?

Posted Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Worth a Thousand Words: How a single photo from a camera phone can ruin a career

EMS agencies need to create photography polices that specifically include camera and video phones due to their increasing prevalence.

Posted Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Seen It All?: Just when you thought nothing could surprise you

Gary Ludwig, MS, EMT-P,„thought he had heard it all until... . A fire chief tells him that one of his firefighters claimed another crew member was posing nude on a match-making Web site.

Posted Monday, September 8, 2008