Story 1: They Felt Isolated

• Discuss the work practices this leader used to reduce tensions and build cohesion with the angry and frustrated structural firefighters.
  
  
• How did the leader's actions enhance the rural firefighter's situational awareness and help build confidence in his leadership?
  
  
• If the fire had been blowing up in this story, how might this have changed the work practices the leader used to build cohesion with the structural firefighters?

Story 2: He Was Freelancing

• What work practices did this leader use in the story to solve the immediate cohesion problem she faced with the dozer operator?
  
  
• Discuss the work practices she used to restore cohesion with the dozer operator and the rest of the division in the safety zone.
  
  
• Discuss how this story illustrates that cohesion needs to be built, maintained, and restored.
  
  
• If the division supervisor hadn't apologized to the dozer boss, how could this have hurt situational awareness and confidence in her leadership in the division?