How Will You Measure Your Life? | Avoid Dissatisfaction at Church
Clayton Christensen is remarkable. He’s been punching out quite a few books over the last few years. Many of them business focused and not exactly “light reads”. He recently came out with a book titled How Will You Measure Your Life? This is a book...
How to Approach Violated Expectations
Has someone you lead let you down? Broken a commitment? It’s time to sit them down and talk it out.
PPI’s — The Platform for Issues to Arise
One of the big mistakes a leader makes is not meeting one-on-one consistently with those in their auxiliary or presidency. Instead they wait for the big issue to come up.
to-NOT-do List
On my mission I received a letter from my mother soon after I was made a district leader. She told me to never ask those I lead to do something that I am not WILLING to do. That is much different from her telling me to never ask those I lead to do something that I am ABLE to do.
Get Out of the Way!
The meeting has past the three hour mark and the bishop and two counselors flip through the ward list for the tenth time hoping a name will jump off the page for a new assistant to the assistant primary teacher. Hopefully they will find that name soon because they have a list of three other callings that need to be filled.
If the bishopric doesn’t decide on people for callings than who will?
Executive Secretary: The True 1st Counselor
One of the very first mistakes a quorum president makes is choosing their right hand man as the first counselor. The secretary position is sometimes looked at as the training position – somewhere to put the guy that doesn’t have much experience in a presidency. They soon find out the secretary should be the guy that never lets you down.
Solving Home Teaching Through the Six-Source Model – Part 5
The tricky thing about changing home teaching results for the better is the fact that human beings are involved. This leads to tough conversations that most Elder’s Quorum Presidents would rather avoid. What if a large part of the problem resided not in the people but rather in the environment?
Solving Home Teaching Through the Six-Source Model – Part 4
How about a pizza party, an ice cream party, a big yellow star on your forehead? Many leaders have experimented with the art of incentives and rewards — and many do so at their own peril.
Solving Home Teaching Through the Six-Source Model – Part 3
Don’t create consistent home teachers….create a MOVEMENT!
