With any good emergency management program comes with it effective leadership. This is virtually true with any operation plan but it is the most important of the five listed for this exercise. My reasoning is simple. Effective leadership requires skills such as communication, intellect and planning. Those traits are almost identical to any effective Emergency Management Leader. Also, an effective leader can ensure the other challenges listed are successful as well. In other words, no Emergency Manager can obtain success without strong leadership skills such as those listed and therefore will surely fail. I learned in our text that on a national level the President chooses the National Emergency Director (Haddow, G., Bullock, J, & Coppola, D.
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Any Emergency Management program that can be effective has been property funded. Without the proper funding the final three challenges would be impossible. The third is federal recovery assistance programs. We as a country, state and even local communities have programs set in place that adequately fund disasters. I think of assistance programs as money management skills. Individuals can earn a ton of cash however if they don’t properly manage their money such as what assistance programs do then they won’t make that money last as such for assistance programs that make sure the money is wisely spent. Partnership are the next important challenge in emergency management. As we learned in our text it takes a “Whole Community” to become resilient and without quality partnerships, recovery would be difficult (Haddow, G., Bullock, J, & Coppola, D. (2013). No one organization or government agency can do this alone it takes partnerships to bring back a community. As for the last topic I believe that communication and information management is least important. I believe that it is a challenge that must be utilized however, I think with the way our technology has evolved this opportunity will progress on its own and is something that doesn’t need as much attention to address.
As for me and my future, I think that my own characteristics are similar in importance and will give me some guidance on identifying my strengths and weaknesses to emergency management. It will also guide me on what skills I need to strengthen that will help me flourish with any career as it pertains to Emergency
Any Emergency Management program that can be effective has been property funded. Without the proper funding the final three challenges would be impossible. The third is federal recovery assistance programs. We as a country, state and even local communities have programs set in place that adequately fund disasters. I think of assistance programs as money management skills. Individuals can earn a ton of cash however if they don’t properly manage their money such as what assistance programs do then they won’t make that money last as such for assistance programs that make sure the money is wisely spent. Partnership are the next important challenge in emergency management. As we learned in our text it takes a “Whole Community” to become resilient and without quality partnerships, recovery would be difficult (Haddow, G., Bullock, J, & Coppola, D. (2013). No one organization or government agency can do this alone it takes partnerships to bring back a community. As for the last topic I believe that communication and information management is least important. I believe that it is a challenge that must be utilized however, I think with the way our technology has evolved this opportunity will progress on its own and is something that doesn’t need as much attention to address.
As for me and my future, I think that my own characteristics are similar in importance and will give me some guidance on identifying my strengths and weaknesses to emergency management. It will also guide me on what skills I need to strengthen that will help me flourish with any career as it pertains to Emergency