Being a Leader of Leaders

I am a leader of leaders in several ways. The most obvious in the BYUSA sense is that I am an Executive Director and I lead my Program Directors, who lead their committees. Last year when I was the FHE mom of my group I was a leader of leaders because I lead my FHE family, who then led within their callings. I think that we are all leaders of leaders in one way or another.

I can be a more divine-centered leader of leaders by following the principles outlined in the lesson. There were a lot of great thoughts that were brought up, but I'm just going to address two. The first one is "thy mind, o man, must stretch." I really enjoyed this because of a conversation I had about a volunteer I was working with. This volunteer had worked in the area before, and felt like she knew exactly what was best for the program. Tamara and I talked about how to help her grow as a leader. We talked about how to help her stretch and always be striving to be better. Christ commanded us to be perfect, and right now none of us are. But eventually we can be, if we are constantly stretching and trying to improve right now.

The other point that I liked was about unity. One of our goals here is to create Zion communities which are of "one heart and one mind." Unity starts from the top and goes down, as we discussed. Once all of us as EDs are united with our coordinator and VP, then we can become united with out PDs and then the committees. So much more can be accomplished when people feel valued and feel like they have a place. Christ loved and served everyone, especially those who were not likely candidates for other people's attention. I really like the "spatula" analogy that has been used in class, where we scrape the edges of the bowl (figuratively speaking) and try to get everyone involved.