POST GAME CHALK TALK

I am sure Coach Tressel after a game has a very interesting post game talk with his team and does not wait until Monday afternoon's practice to go over the good and bad of the most recent game. The photo above is of Platoon #1 of the Newark Fire Department at 1:00am this past week after knocking down a difficult house fire that could have been a lot worst.

Not to pass along information that I consider private, but Chief Spurgeon could have easily release units from the scene and talked about the procedures used three days latter. He kept the units on the scene gathered them and said "This is every body's opportunity to be honest for critiquing how everyone worked together". Opportunity does not come enough in most businesses to join all employees together and for the boss to ask "How did I do and how do you think your fellow workers did, now is the time to talk about it". Once in awhile, I sure asking the questions really hurts, but sometimes the boss getting the truth helps everyone out in the long run.

Of this short ten minute meeting I was the most proud of: the firefighters were not scared to talk expressing their issues. I have known most for many years and some for a short time (probes) and once again I can not say enough about their dedication to making sure they do a good job to make sure "everyone goes home".