Dale Carnegie Would Make an Awful Elder’s Quorum President

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Leading LDS in Bishops, Books, Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Home Teaching, Leadership Skills, Relief Society, Visiting Teaching 3 Comments

Hi, I’m Kurt and I’m a recovering Dale Carnigie reader. Dale Carnegie’s methods have been around a long time and are imprinted deep in the minds of leaders.

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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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The Ward Fellowship Rating

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Leading LDS in Bishops, Challenges, Elder's Quorum, Relief Society 2 Comments

On a scale from 1 to 10 how well does your ward know each other? (1 = they just met, 10 = we are best friends forever)

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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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Solving Home Teaching Through the Six-Source Model – Part 5

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Leading LDS in Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Home Teaching, Relief Society, Uncategorized, Visiting Teaching 4 Comments

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?

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Solving Home Teaching Through the Six-Source Model – Part 4

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Leading LDS in Change Anything, Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Home Teaching, Leadership Skills, Relief Society, Uncategorized, Visiting Teaching No Comments

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.

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Solving Home Teaching Through the Six-Source Model – Part 2

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Leading LDS in Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Home Teaching, Leadership Skills, Relief Society, Visiting Teaching No Comments

It might not be motivation they are lacking….what if they simply do not know HOW to home teach???

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Solving Home Teaching Through the Six-Source Model – Part 1

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Leading LDS in Books, Change Anything, Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Home Teaching, Relief Society, Uncategorized, Visiting Teaching No Comments

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.

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Mastering the Fundamental Attribution Error

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Leading LDS in Bishops, Elder's Quorum, High Priest Group, Home Teaching, Leadership Skills, Relief Society, Visiting Teaching No Comments

Why Every Bishop, Elder’s Quorum President, and Relief Society President Need To Understand the Fundamental Attribution Error.

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