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Table 2. Leadership Principles1 Be technically and tactically proficient2 Know yourself and seek self-improvement3 Know your firefighters and look out for their welfare4 Keep your firefighters informed5 Set the example6 Ensure that the task is understood, supervised, and accomplished7 Train your firefighters as a team8 Make sound and timely decisions9 Develop a sense of responsibility among subordinates10 Employ your command in accordance with its capabilities11 Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actionsSource: Lejeune, A. J.: Leadership Guide [3]The following photo shows one presentation of the Volunteer Firefighting Association Umag held inBuje in 2008. Such events contribute to the working effectiveness of a volunteer firefightingassociation. It raise the public awareness about fire issues, create and improve team spirit amongfirefighters, develop the amount of knowledge and experience, improves technically and tacticallyproficiency among firefighters and gives officers information’s about the readiness of his team.Figure 1. The Volunteer Firefighting FresentationSource: own sourceFunctional Approach on LeadershipTo understand better the objectives and attributes every leader should consider, a functional approachon leadership should be introduced first. In every given group, there will be, as a prerequisite for theexistence of the group in the first place, the needs of the task. The group concerned with the needs ofthe task will have to adopt a structured approach in order to deal with it successfully. They will need toform a team, which will have needs of its own. Of course a team is made up of individuals. They toowill have needs. So these are the three building blocks that form Functional Leadership [1]:• Task Needs• Team Needs• Individual Needs488M&S 8(2013)