Saturday, April 9, 2011

Leading Change

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!

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