What I Wish I Knew Before Leading | Share Your Experience!

Our WIWIK series on the Leading Saints podcast is designed to help gather multiple perspectives around a specific leadership calling or topic. We hope you or a leader you know will contribute to this project so that we can help other leaders with less experience. (You can listen to past WIWIK segments).

Sample Topics

Depending on your background you might also consider answering one or more of the questions below using the embedded recorder at the bottom this page:

  • What I wish I knew before I was [insert your calling]…
    • Stake president
    • Any stake council position (high counselor, YW president, etc.)
    • Bishop
    • Bishop’s wife
    • Any ward council position (bishopric counselor, SS president, etc.)
  • (Bishop) What I wish I knew before performing a wedding…
  • (Bishop) What I wish I knew before writing a welfare check…
  • (Bishoprics) What I wish I knew before tithing settlement…
  • (Relief Society) What I wish I knew before helping with welfare…
  • (Primary) What I wish I knew before organizing a primary program…
  • (Young Women Pres) What I wish I knew before organizing girls camp…
  • (Young Men Pres) What I wish I knew before organizing a high adventure camp…
  • (Youth leader) What I wish I knew before organizing a pioneer trek…

How to record:

  1. Determine which question you are going to answer
  2. Click the green button below
  3. Say your name and where you are from
  4. Start your answer with the question or topic at hand (i.e. “What I wish I knew before I was elders quorum president…” or “What I wish I knew before performing a wedding…”
  5. Talk up to 5 minutes (the closer you get to the 5-minute mark the better)
  6. Stop recording
  7. Listen to recording and record again if you would like
  8. Enter name and email
  9. Submit recording by clicking “send”

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