Welcome!

1. Welcome! Put me in Coach; I’m Ready to Play!

2. Put me in Coach, I ‘m ready to play! • Being a Winner, on a Winning Team

3. 57 Rules of Emergency Services • Rule # 1 • You must be able to deliver the goods • Rule # 2 • The other 56 rules don’t matter

4. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE UP YOUR DREAMS • Change your strategy! • Instead of working alone you need to be part of a TEAM!

5. Make you better than you are alone. WHAT BEING A TEAM MEMBER CAN DO FOR YOU

6. Multiplies your value to others. WHAT BEING A TEAM MEMBER CAN DO FOR YOU

7. Enables you to do what you do best. WHAT BEING A TEAM MEMBER CAN DO FOR YOU

8. Allows you to help others do their best. WHAT BEING A TEAM MEMBER CAN DO FOR YOU

9. Gives you more time. WHAT BEING A TEAM MEMBER CAN DO FOR YOU

10. Provides you with companionship. WHAT BEING A TEAM MEMBER CAN DO FOR YOU

11. Helps you fulfill the desires of your heart. WHAT BEING A TEAM MEMBER CAN DO FOR YOU

12. Make you and the entire team a winner. All of these combined;

13. JOHN MAXWELL • Coming together is a beginning. • Keeping together is progress. • Working together is success.

14. AS WE GET OLDER TEAMS BECOME MORE IMPORTANT! • “Anybody who can still do at 60, what he was doing at 20 was not doing much at 20” • (JIMMY TOWNSEND)

15. Winning Teams Have These Things In Common • They Play To Win.

16. Winning Teams Have These Things In Common • They Have A Winning Attitude.

17. Winning Teams Have These Things In Common • They keep Improving.

18. Winning Teams Have These Things In Common • They have fun playing! • They enjoy what they do!

19. Look At Yourself • Know your- • Skills • Potentials • Limits

20. Be An MVP For Your Team • V- Visualize what can be, not just what is. • A- Appreciate the other players. • L- Lead by example. • U- Understand the big picture. • A- Add value to the entire team. • B- Bring home the bacon. • L- Learn from mistakes. • E- Encourage others.

21. WAYS TO BE A POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON YOUR TEAM • Have a mission that matters.

22. THE MISSION • Believe in the MISSION you are advancing. • If you do not, you are dead.

23. THE MISSION • Other people will sense that something is not there.

24. Example of Team Mission • Volkswagen – “To provide an economic means of transportation.” • AT&T – “To provide quick and efficient communication capabilities.” • Habitat for Humanity – “To eliminate poverty housing in America.” • Los Angeles Clippers – “To play in May.”

25. Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness • Be Nice; Exceed Expectations!

26. Customers Co-workers The “Boss” The Organization Your Family Your Community Be Nice; Exceed Expectations

27. Be Passionate about your Mission Commitment Dedication

28. PASSION • Passion is personal- • NO ONE CAN GIVE IT TO YOU! • Passion is progressive- • YOU WILL GET HOOKED! • Passion is contagious- • OTHERS WILL CATCH IT!

29. PASSION • CHASE YOUR PASSION, NOT YOUR PENSION!

30. PASSION • Find something you like to do so much that you would do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

31. Find your Passion • What do I dream about? • What do I weep about? • What makes me Sing?

32. “What ever you are; be a good one”Abe Lincoln • There are no unimportant jobs, just people who feel unimportant doing their job.

33. “Make each day your masterpiece!”Joshua Wooden • Each day you have a choice; • Just earn a living? • Making a difference!

34. “Make each day your masterpiece!”Joshua Wooden • “Paint” your world with the brush strokes and colors that make you and those around you happy.

35. “What ever you are; be a good one”Abe Lincoln • An employer can train employees to achieve exceptional performance, then reward them for it.

36. “What ever you are; be a good one”Abe Lincoln • OnlyYOU can chose to do your “job” in a extraordinary way, regardless of the circumstances.

37. “What ever you are; be a good one”Abe Lincoln • Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional!

38. “What ever you are; be a good one”Abe Lincoln • Position never determines performance. • Performance may ultimately determines position. • Your “Position” in life is based on results rather than intentions.

39. “What ever you are; be a good one”Abe Lincoln • Results come from; Doing what others only talk about.

40. Ordinary to Extraordinary ! • Only when you make the ordinary the extraordinary will others see the possibilities for themselves.

41. Ordinary to Extraordinary ! • The person doing the work determines the difference in mundane and magnificent!

42. Do not accept: Mediocrity Foolishness Lack of commitment Replace them with: Excellence Wisdom Dedication Your possibilities are endless

43. Success is built upon relationships • Indifferent people deliver indifferent results. • Be nice; Exceed expectations!

44. Legendary Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant • HOW TO HELP MAKE A PLAYER SUCCESSFUL • Tell them what you expect of them • Give them the opportunity to perform • Let them know how they are getting along • Give them guidance where needed • Reward them according to their contribution

45. INFLUENCE • Everybody influences somebody: • Is YOUR influence positive or negative? • Are YOU Raising people up, or rubbing them out?

46. Andrew Carnegie • “There are two types of people who never achieve much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won’t do what he or she is told to do, And the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do.” EXCEED EXPECTATIONS!

47. WAYS TO BE A POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON YOUR TEAM • Be a big thinker.

48. THE 4 S’s OF BIG THINKERS……….. • SEE the potential others do not see. • SAY the positive words others do not say. • SHOW the personal interest others do not show. • SHARE the possibilities that others do not share.

49. GREAT THOUGHTS • “Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts.” • Benjamin Disraeli

50. BE A BIG THINKER • Dare to Dream • Prepare the Dream • Wear the Dream. • Share the Dream. • John Maxwell