Photo: BYU Photo I recently had the opportunity to attend the BYU Management Society’s Moral & Ethical Leadership Conference. This was my first year and I didn’t quite know what to expect but I can assure you I won’t be missing it in the future....
At the end of the article is a video of a recorded webinar where the author of this article gives details instruction on how to effectively record meeting minutes. Jenny Smith is a Star Trek fan, graduate of Brigham Young University, member of the Patawomeck Indian...
There’s a famous quote often attributed to Peter Drucker (a management/business thinker), “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Anyone who has been a manager or run a company knows this to be true. You can have the best product or service...
Rychen Jones is a former elder quorum president and is currently serving as executive secretary in his ward in Salem, Oregon. He has also been a featured guest on our How I Lead podcast segment. Enter Rychen… I’ve struggled with depression for the last...
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. – M. Esther Harding Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. – Mahatma Gandhi Whether you realize it or not, conflict is likely at the surface or bubbling just beneath the surface in your wards...
To shave or not to shave: that is the question. Ever since President David O. McKay changed the face of the Church with his smooth cheeks and chin, transforming a prophet’s image from a beard-to-the-chest pioneer to a civilized and debonair man of the twentieth...
Between 2013 and 2015, the Church released eleven essays on historical and doctrinal issues that some members may be wrestling with. Topics ranged from “Book of Mormon and DNA Studies” to “Mother in Heaven.” Leading Saints asked our readers...
Justin is the father of 5 kids and serves on the high council in the Kirtland, Ohio Stake. He works in business development for a medical device design firm in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a regular listener of the Leading Saints podcast. When it is essential, he finds time...
For many years, Claudine Gallacher worked alongside Kristen Jenson, founder of Protect Young Minds. Claudine has spent many years encouraging parents to teach their young children what to do when they see pornography. As a writer and researcher, Claudine has...
Most people in the LDS culture assume that a release from a leadership calling should be a happy, even joyous occasion. After all, shouldn’t a former bishop or Relief Society president feel grateful to be done with the responsibilities that took them away from their...
