Story 1: Grab People Off Districts

• What work practices did the crew boss use to build cohesion in his crew of firefighters from different districts?
  
  
• How could the actions of this leader increase both confidence in his leadership and situational awareness once they got to the fire?
  
  
• What work practices have you or other leaders used to build cohesion with a group of firefighters who were just pulled off of districts and didn't know each other?

Story 2: Resources I Hadn't Worked With Before

• The leader scaled back suppression operations for a couple of days. How was this linked to cohesion?
  
  
• Discuss the work practices this leader used to establish cohesion with the engine crews he hadn't worked with before.
  
  
• Talk about a specific time when you have had to work with unfamiliar resources and had concerns about cohesion. What did you do?

Story 3: Crew Straggling In

• What specific work practices did this leader use to integrate new firefighters into his existing crew?
  
  
• How could his actions help to increase both confidence in his leadership and situational awareness?
  
  
• How would the leader's work practices have changed if the firefighters were straggling in when the fire was blowing up? Discuss how a change in fire behavior can change the work practices available to the leader to deal with cohesion problems.

Story 4: They Welcomed Us In

• Discuss how stereotyping of firefighters can create cohesion problems on a fire.
  
  
• What work practices did the smokejumper use to build cohesion between the contract crew and jumpers?
  
  
• What work practices have you used to create cohesion between contract and federal crews?