By Derek Rosenfeld

For the seventh time, former Tennessee Titan Tight End and Mt. Juliet (TN) Fire Department Chief Erron Kinney blurred the lines of professional sports and professional firefighting at FDIC with his Wednesday afternoon class “The Value-Driven Firefighter: a Parallel of NFL and Fire Service Leadership, Training, and Accountability.”

Addressing how he came to be so involved with making the connection between his NFL and fire service career, Kinney said, “I became involved in the topic as I began to look at the many similarities and glaring differences in my NFL Career and my Fire service career.”

I believe the topics I address fill the need for motivation, an outside-the-box leadership model, and accountability. I hope this helps firefighters become value-driven difference-makers in their profession and for their communities and organizations.

Kinney started off his discussion by distinguishing between “good” success and “bad” success, and what it means to bring value to your organization:

接下来,Kinney表明最好的你department doesn’t matter if the entire department does not live up to it’s end of the bargain:

Here, Kinney gives examples that draw parallels between the need for emphasizing the team concept in both his collegiate football career and his fire service career: