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In today’s rapidly evolving emergency services landscape, EMS and fire organizations must adapt to the current staffing challenges while leading a diverse, multi-generational workforce. Whether full-time or volunteer, leaders are tasked with managing teams that span generations, each with its own dynamics, insights and expectations.
Leaders today face a new culture of responder and recruitment challenges, and to effectively communicate and lead across this shifting environment, strong leadership and collaboration are essential to meet the needs of the communities we serve. Drawing on 31 years of experience in Fire/EMS and 27 years of leadership across multiple branches of the military, Brad Eckhart offers valuable insights to help leaders navigate the complexities of this evolving challenge.
You will learn:
- The traits and generational identities of today’s responders in order to better understand your team.
- Strategies for effective communication for more awareness into who you are leading.
- The ways in which you are perceived and how they can lead to more effective communication.
- How to become a 360-degree mentor by using the foundation of generational knowledge and situational leadership as the keys to an effective response.
- Insight into cultivating an environment people do not want to leave.
WHAT ATTENDEES LIKED FROM THIS PRESENTATION:
“I enjoyed a great public speaker talking about a topic that he is passionate about.”
“Good information, good presentation.”
“The speaker was clear and on-point.”
“Good overview about the importance of communication and meeting people where they are.”
“Gave me new perspectives to look for in leadership and individual growth.”
“Good discussion of the different generations.”
MEET THE SPEAKER:
Brad Eckhart retired out of Wright-Patterson AFB in 2015 as a master sergeant after serving as an operations flight superintendent and in-flight medical technician instructor. During his tenure, MSgt Eckhart’s 27-year military career spanned multiple branches of service, including time in the Navy (aboard ship and embedded with Marine Forces as a Fleet Marine Force Corpsman), as well as the Army (as a Combat Medic) before his Air Force service. MSgt Eckhart served as a program evaluator with the Air Force Reserve Command’s Non-Commissioned Officer Leadership Development Program, providing leadership initiatives to active duty and reserve airmen at bases across CONUS and USAFE. In his civilian capacity, Brad Eckhart served his community as a firefighter/EMT-I for 30 years, spending his final 22 years with Bowling Green Fire Department in Bowling Green, OH. Retiring in 2021, MSgt Eckhart joined the ImageTrend team where he continues to serve by using his experience in fire, EMS and military service, sharing data solutions in those domains nationwide.