As a Junior in high school, I was required to read a book called "Who Moved My Cheese." This book was all about accepting change and and how to adapt to the changes that are thrown at us in life. I really liked this book and found that I am usually pretty accepting to change. This past week in our leadership class, we learned about leading change. It was interesting to look at change in the view point of someone who initiates change rather than just accepting it. There are situations where as a leader you need to be able to accept change but other times where as a leader you need to be the one who leads change.
All throughout life, we will be put into situations where things are not running well or something needs to be changed. A good leader will recognize this needed change and will take the necessary steps to fulfilling this needed change.
In my leadership role of Relief Society president, me and my counselors had the opportunity to see an issue and promote a desire to fix it. We had been having a hard time getting girls to report their visiting teaching to their supervisors and we were trying to fix the problem from the top down. With a little thoughtful actions and work, we found the basis of the problem and were able to solve this issue. This last month we had 99% Visiting Teaching. This initiation to lead change almost solved the problem completely!
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
GOOD... BETTER.... BEST!
This week's lecture was all focused around ethics. We did a whole bunch of scenarios where we had to decide to support one story or the other. What I found most interesting is that most of the options we had were not between good and bad but rather two decent options to choose from.
With General Conference right around the corner, this activity reminded me of the talk given a few years ago about "Good, Better, Best." Most of the decisions in life will not be one's where there is a clear line between what is good and what is bad. There will be a few but not many. And I believe that if we have prepared ourselves prior to this then those decisions will be really easy to make. The real challenge comes when trying to choose between something that is good and something that is better. When this happens, you really have to search into what your core ethics and values are. You have to know what you really want in the long run, not necessarily what is appealing for today.
As I apply this to my leadership role, it is very relevant. In Relief Society, there are many ways that we can go about helping the sisters in my ward. However, we need to take the time and find what way is BEST to help them become the BEST girls they can become. Each and every girl needs help in a different way and I need to search hard to find what is best for them.
As an update from previous weeks, our visiting teaching numbers were off the charts this month. I really think that working from the bottom up helped a lot and made it so we were more successful. There was only one companionship in our entire Relief Society that didn't get their VT done this month. YAY.. I am so proud of my girls. Well, that is all for this week. I'll keep you updated next week.
With General Conference right around the corner, this activity reminded me of the talk given a few years ago about "Good, Better, Best." Most of the decisions in life will not be one's where there is a clear line between what is good and what is bad. There will be a few but not many. And I believe that if we have prepared ourselves prior to this then those decisions will be really easy to make. The real challenge comes when trying to choose between something that is good and something that is better. When this happens, you really have to search into what your core ethics and values are. You have to know what you really want in the long run, not necessarily what is appealing for today.
As I apply this to my leadership role, it is very relevant. In Relief Society, there are many ways that we can go about helping the sisters in my ward. However, we need to take the time and find what way is BEST to help them become the BEST girls they can become. Each and every girl needs help in a different way and I need to search hard to find what is best for them.
As an update from previous weeks, our visiting teaching numbers were off the charts this month. I really think that working from the bottom up helped a lot and made it so we were more successful. There was only one companionship in our entire Relief Society that didn't get their VT done this month. YAY.. I am so proud of my girls. Well, that is all for this week. I'll keep you updated next week.
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