by Bob Holdsworth | Jun 13, 2020 | Business Strategy, EMS Leadership, EMS Management, EMS/Ambulance, First responders, Strategic Planning
So, how’s 2020 so far? Let’s recap, pandemic, shortage of PPE, workers out sick themselves, civil unrest, an unprecedented and impressive list and we’re not even 180 days into the year. Before all that started there were already economic...
by Bob Holdsworth | Jun 10, 2020 | Business Development, Business Strategy, Career Development, EMS Leadership, EMS Management, EMS/Ambulance, Entrepreneurship, Small Business
As an industry we spend a lot of time on ‘transactional planning’. Budgets, scheduling, fleet maintenance, marketing events that fall in our laps and participating in local disaster preparedness events. Yet, the vast majority of services spend little to no time...
by Bob Holdsworth | May 7, 2020 | Business Development, Business Strategy, Career Development, EMS Leadership, EMS Management, EMS/Ambulance, Entrepreneurship, Small Business
When you hired the people you work with, was ‘act like mushroom’ one of the lines found in their job description? Mushrooms love being kept in relative darkness where they can be fed a constant diet of decomposing material (crap) and hopefully thrive. This is not the...
by Bob Holdsworth | Apr 20, 2020 | Business Strategy, Career Development, EMS Leadership, EMS Management, EMS/Ambulance, Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Personal Development, Small Business
Accepting responsibility for actions and decisions is a very difficult process for most newly promoted leaders, in fact it can often remain an obstacle on the path to success for many leaders regardless of tenure. I’ve seen the effects of a leader’s inability to...
by Bob Holdsworth | Feb 12, 2020 | Business Growth, EMS Leadership, EMS Management, EMS/Ambulance, Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Personal Development, Small Business
In today’s overcrowded, always on, hyper-cluttered and very public world, it is imperative that leaders take a step back and begin to use their original input/output devices more effectively. Look in the mirror and you will see that not a lot has changed a lot from...
by Bob Holdsworth | Feb 3, 2020 | EMS Leadership, EMS Management, EMS/Ambulance, First responders
Many organizations try to “fix” their staffing problems by integrating paid staff. While this solution might appear to be the magic bullet for all staffing issues, if the integration is not done properly, you’ll just have a whole new set of problems on your hands. The...
