Description

Wednesday, December 6
9:00am – 4:30pm
Hosted by the Buda Fire Dept
209 FM 2770
Buda, TX 78610

The Motivating Others workshop provides dozens of practical and proven strategies for motivating people from your newest rookie to your most seasoned veteran. The workshop delivers workable tools and techniques for dozens of situations, including strategies for dealing with old-timers, new recruits, and people who you’ve been friends with for years, but you are now supervising. Come to the Motivating Others workshop and learn how to fix a wide variety of energy-draining issues in your fire department.

Learning objectives of the Motivating Others workshop

• Learn essential techniques for motivating people with very different reasons for being unmotivated.
• Distinguish temporary motivation deficits from more permanent–and more problematic–unmotivated states.
• Address motivation issues that have proven elusive in the past by linking individual behaviors to individual motivation triggers.
• Learn new ways to motivate the people you work with and the people who work for you.

Testimonials from Texas Fire Chiefs

“Don’t pass up the opportunity to send your people to Geoffrey Tumlin’s TFCA workshops. The sessions are so important and insightful that not only have we sent people to every single class, but we also decided to import the workshops for all our shifts. I recommend these workshops wholeheartedly!”
– Robert Isbell, Round Rock Fire Chief

“Geoffrey Tumlin is a friend of the fire service. He talks about new and important ideas in ways that fire fighters quickly understand, and his ideas make enormous positive differences in fire departments. I’m one of many chiefs who turn to Geoffrey for keen insights, second opinions, and trusted advice.”
– Neil Howard, Rowlett Fire Chief

About the workshop leader: Dr. Geoffrey Tumlin is the president of On-Demand Leadership and the author of Stop Talking, Start Communicating (McGraw-Hill, 2013). Geoffrey earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and his B.S. from West Point. After graduating from West Point, Geoffrey served as an infantry officer in Hawaii. His work has appeared in over 150 media outlets and publications, including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Fast Company, Inc.com, SiriusXM radio, Fox Business, Investor’s Business Daily, andCNNMoney/Fortune.com, and he’s a frequent guest of fire service organizations throughout Texas.