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?
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.
Don’t create consistent home teachers….create a MOVEMENT!
It might not be motivation they are lacking….what if they simply do not know HOW to home teach???
Home teaching — the holy grail of church programs. If the secret code could be broke, think of the problems it would fix. Because it is a great challenge for so many leaders, any time we can take another swing at solving it I think it is worth our time. Even though we are speaking in the context of home teaching everything in the following posts can be applied to visiting teaching as well.
Why Every Bishop, Elder’s Quorum President, and Relief Society President Need To Understand the Fundamental Attribution Error.
Are people lazy or just exhausted?
Take the next ten minutes and watch the video below with one question in mind. How can this be applied to motivating others to Home Teach/Visiting Teach? Comment as you feel inspired and then I will further comment on the principles taught in this video.
One of my overall purposes of this blog is to take leadership theory that is being discussed in the real world and see if it can be applied to church leadership. To do this…
Meetings. It’s what we do in this church. Especially in leadership. I often wonder if the only reason we have meetings is so people in the meetings feel important. Meetings could be…
