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Derek Bagshaw

Derek Bagshaw

Battalion Chief with West Palm Beach Fire Department and owner of fire-service training consultancy 660 Response Solutions, known for his "Culture Code" leadership training.

Oct 5, 2026

MickeyHOST
27:51
What about those guys?
27:53
So two examples.
27:55
One, I worked with a lieutenant a long time ago that was the most negative person I've ever been around in my entire life.
28:01
Didn't want to run calls, wasn't excited about training, was just miserable all that time and made everybody else around him miserable.
28:08
And I'm thankful for that.
28:10
I'm thankful for that difficult time period in my career when I was a private.
28:15
I didn't have a choice.
MickeyHOST
33:08
I had to figure out what that meant.
MickeyHOST
17:44
is
17:45
when we come to ego, when it comes to these guys, especially the older guys and the rest of it, if we drop the ego out of it and ourselves included and put ourselves out there to fail, much like these guys did today, super important.
17:56
The guy that's a driver that had arguably no business to sit down and take a you know, scenario with us and sit down and crushed it and everything.
18:03
Even if he would have screwed it up and screwed the pooch and the rest of it, the fact that he's willing to put himself out there with no ego and all that and improve himself.
18:08
I think that's a, that's a huge step in the right direction for everybody involved.
18:11
And, uh, you know, the second part, like we were talking about this morning is the hard conversations and not even necessarily a hard conversation, but one that is super important with expectations.
18:20
and that expectation going both ways.

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MickeyHOST
37:58
So when it is your turn to move up, when it is your turn to move up, you're going to be ready for whatever you want to do.

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