Getting inside the teenage brain to engage new recruits
In one manner or another, your fire department engages teenagers. But what do you know about teens, other than having been one yourself, once upon a time? Do you lament that they seem more interested in their phones than engaged in “real life”?
In their defense, teens’ lives have been saturated by social media. Near-constant visual inputs impact their sense of self, expectations of future experiences, attention span and, most importantly to your firehouse, interpretation of who YOU are and how they may or may not fit in to your department’s culture. Read More…