Giving Your Ward a Story to Tell and Other Ways to Promote Positive Ward Culture | An Interview with Kirk Weisler

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Kirk Weisler is a leadership coach and trainer focused on team building and culture training. He is currently Chief Morale Officer for companies and organizations around the globe, offering coaching, keynote addresses, and workshops. A past leader of the National Speakers Association, Kirk is a master team builder and a professional storyteller, and has been a part of seven start-ups. He previously served in the 19th Special Forces and as a US Army Ranger. Kirk and his wife have been married over 30 years, have six children, and reside in Gilbert, Arizona. Highlights 3:30 Thoughts on becoming a bishop. 7:20 Implementing a positive culture in your ward. 14:00 Examples of implementing positive culture. Give people a story to tell. 24:30 How do you actually apply this principle of implementing positive culture? What are the actionable steps? 30:00 Example of creating moments and positive culture. 32:00 Unite your presidencies. It’s not enough just to go and do your calling but it’s about creating unity between leaders. 35:00 Ask your members what their dream calling is. What are their talents and strengths? Give them a chance to give input. 38:30 Another way to create positive church culture is to eliminate the shame that people have about their sins. Help them see how amazing they really are. We are not our sins. 42:15 Shifting culture is about shifting the traditions and rituals. These things are not a part of our doctrine. 44:45 Culture has momentum. In order to change culture we have to slow things down. 49:00 Story of removing shame and playing with nerf guns. Links kirkweisler.com Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast Get 14-day access to the Core Leader Library

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1:07.5	To see a full scope of the Leading Saints content, visit Leading Saints.org. Today I'm with Kirk Weisler. This is going to be a tough one Kirk.
1:25.0	We're gonna this is gonna be a tough one Kirk because I'm Kurt and you're Kirk.
1:28.0	How are you Kirk? That's gonna be great. I know and everyone always ask you is it K or T? exactly and it's ker with a t but you know you can go a different direction
1:36.1	right that's fine yours is the true that's right tell us a little about yourself put yourself in the context
1:42.3	kirt as far as where you live, what do you do, that sort of thing.
1:47.0	Sure. So I live in Gilbert, Arizona. We've lived here about seven years, moves here from Georgia, where we're out there about nine years.
1:53.7	The girl I married, Rebecca, we've been hanging out together for 30 years.
1:58.0	We met both rejected BYU students going to the community college, which from what I understand now is even bigger than
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