Story 1: Out To Compete With Everybody

• Why is excessive crew competition a cohesion problem?
  
  
• What work practices did the leader use to stop excessive competition?
  
  
• How can excessive competition between crews decrease confidence in the leader and detract from situational awareness? Can this increase the chance of entrapment?
  
  
• What other work practices have you or others used to reduce excessive competition?

Story 2: The Excitement Is Gone

• Why does complaining among firefighters cause a cohesion problem?
  
  
• What work practices did the leader use to deal with this problem?
  
  
• What other work practices have you or other leaders used to maintain cohesion when firefighters got bored and started complaining on fires?
  
  
• How could complaining among firefighters contribute to increasing the chance of entrapment?

Story 3: He Didn't Get To Be Crew Boss

• Why does a squad boss undermining a crew boss trainee's authority result in a cohesion problem in the rest of the crew?
  
  
• What work practices did the crew boss trainee use to take care of the crew cohesion problem?
  
  
• What problems with confidence in the leadership of the crew boss trainee and situational awareness were created when the squad boss led half of the crew up the other side of the road? How could this action play itself out in a potential entrapment situation?