Ems Leadership Characteristics

A leader in the field of emergency medical services is a well rounded individual that possess many leadership traits. Most of our leaders in EMS today came directly up the short rank structure that most services have in place. As they performed their daily duties without even knowing they were leaders and they were often learning traits and values that does not make a good leader compared to those that do makes a good leader. I bet if you were to ask many of them never saw or even thought of themselves as a leadership material. I bet that in some point of their career some member of their administration made a similar statement about them as they observed their daily activities and interactions with others in professional and nonprofessional setting.
Many leaders in the administrations started off in not so fabulous ways and if you asked their supervisors early on in their careers I bet most would have said they are not going to make it a year before they have been gobbled up and spit out. Through many trials and tribulations these individuals slowly began to rise above the average ranks. Even as basic emergency medical technicians certain characteristics of a leader began to slowly show through and were developed by an attentive supervisory member of their service. Some of those characteristics include being a good listener, able to clearly communicate with others, empathetic to others, supportive and inspiring others in positions both above and below their current