Available Services
Boss Workshop:
Put your team through a week of intense training; teaching them to effectively supervise, manage, and most importantly, lead your organization.
Leadership Training:
Available for custom-built Leadership training at your location. From brief speaking engagements to training sessions of any specified length.
Organizational Diagnosis:
Available to delve into the inner-workings of your organization; analyze, diagnose, and recommend improvements in the areas of Supervision, Management, Leadership, Planning/Visioning, and Labor/Management Relations.
Strategic Planning:
Available to advise/facilitate - developing a new, or updating an existing, Visionary Strategic Plan.
Team Building:
Available to assist you in transforming your "group" of individuals into a cohesive "team" of individuals, in a process specific to the needs of your organization.
Books (see bookstore)
Supervisor, Manager, Leader; The Basics of Being a Boss
A common sense approach to the critical skills that most organizations fail to teach their people. Based upon Mike’s journey through his career, the book will clarify the difference between the commonly misunderstood terms of supervisor, manager, and leader, and assist the reader in becoming the best boss possible.
Supervisor, Manager, Leader; The Basics of Being a Boss: Self-Assessment Workbook This companion workbook is designed as the follow-up to the “Supervisor, Manager, Leader; The Basics of Being a Boss” book. It will guide you through a self-assessment of your present “boss” abilities/skills, and help you clarify in which areas you may need to improve; resulting in you becoming the best supervisor, manager, leader, you can possibly become!
Regionalizing Fire Service Delivery Systems; Will it Work Here?
Designed to assist fire chiefs, union presidents, and appointed and elected officials evaluate, then work through the tricky and often complicated process of merging fire agencies. The book is based upon Mike’s real experience in forming the Modesto Regional Fire Authority, as well as his ongoing experiences in assisting fire departments throughout California.