Trust Must Come Before Leadership

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Leading LDS in Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Home Teaching, Leadership Skills, Primary Presidencies, Relief Society, Visiting Teaching 1 Comment

Before I graduated college I had a variety of uncomfortable jobs. One of those jobs was selling compliance posters (the poster you see hanging in break rooms explaining federal and state laws like minimum wage). I would start my day with about 10 posters and knock businesses door-to-door until I convinced a business owner to buy. I [...]

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Finding the Extraordinary to Fill Church Callings

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Leading LDS in Bishops, Books, Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Home Teaching, Leadership Skills, Primary Presidencies, Relief Society 3 Comments

Imagine if you sat on the board of directors for a large Fortune 500 company that needed to find a new CEO to improve the dismal progress of the company. You are not allowed to conduct any formal interviews. You can only choose from people that live in a specific geographical neighborhood (about 350 people). [...]

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Allowing Natural Consequences to Teach

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Leading LDS in Bishops, Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Leadership Skills, Primary Presidencies, Relief Society, Uncategorized, Video 1 Comment

President Henry S. Truman had a small wooden sign on his desk that stated “THE BUCK STOPS HERE”. His desk displayed this sign throughout his administration. It’s a good motto — a motto all leaders should follow. Many interpret this motto not only as a reason to take responsibility of all things that happen in your jurisdiction [...]

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How to Approach Violated Expectations

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Leading LDS in Books, Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Home Teaching, Interviews, Leadership Skills, Primary Presidencies, Relief Society, Uncategorized 2 Comments

Has someone you lead let you down? Broken a commitment? It’s time to sit them down and talk it out.

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PPI’s — The Platform for Issues to Arise

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Leading LDS in Bishops, Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Home Teaching, Interviews, Leadership Skills, Primary Presidencies, Relief Society, Uncategorized 2 Comments

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.

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to-NOT-do List

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Leading LDS in Bishops, Elder's Quorum, Leadership Skills, Primary Presidencies, Relief Society, Uncategorized 2 Comments

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.

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Get Out of the Way!

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Leading LDS in Bishops, Books, Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Primary Presidencies, Relief Society, Uncategorized No Comments

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?

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Why Your Delegating Isn’t Working.

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Leading LDS in Books, Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Leadership Skills, Primary Presidencies, Relief Society No Comments

DELEGATE! DELEGATE! DELEGATE! ….but at least do it right.

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