The phrase “fighting fires” gets thrown around pretty casually in business. For real fire fighters, however, it’s a highly skilled, dangerous endeavor focused on both prevention and ensuring public safety amid life threatening fires.
In this week’s Change Your Character exercise, let’s see what fire fighters can teach us about stopping the non life-threatening challenges we face in business; brainstorm 3 potential ideas for each of the fire fighting approaches listed below:
FIRE PREVENTION
- Performing community outreach & education on fire prevention
- Training with real fire situations
- Inspecting buildings to ensure susceptibility to fire is reduced
- Having a special number for people to report problems
DURING A FIRE
- Getting to the scene of the fire quickly
- Bringing specialized equipment and proper tools with them
- Using resources at the scene
- First finding the fire’s origin
- Identifying potential risks
- Rescuing people in danger / harm’s way
- Locating casualties / people injured & providing assistance
- Analyzing the fire for potential future trouble spots
- Removing the fire’s source of fuel
- Addressing self-preservation
Check out a compilation of "Change Your Character" creative thinking exercises and information on its use. – Mike Brown
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