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Leading Saints Podcast

How I Lead as Bishop | An Interview with Donald Kelly

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Donald Kelly has served as a bishop, executive secretary, Sunday School teacher, YSA representative, and in an elders quorum presidency. He joined the Church as a teenager, served a mission in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Brigham Young University Idaho with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration with an emphasis on marketing. He is the founder and CEO of The Sales Evangelist sales training organization in South Florida, and host of The Sales Evangelist podcast. Highlights 3:40 What his organization does teaching sales principles as business consultants 4:35 His conversion story and convincing his mother to allow him to be baptized and serve a mission 10:40 Calling as a bishop at age 31 12:00 The challenge of developing leaders in the Church Coaching from both excellent examples and learning experiences Being intentional about mentoring other leaders so they can develop and stand on their own 18:00 A letter and binder of information for newly-called leaders 20:00 Emphasis on one-on-one interviews to identify challenges and offer guidance 21:20 Details about how they created and used the binders and instructional videos for new leaders to transition between individuals in callings 31:30 Details about using one-on-one interviews to counsel together and empower leaders in the ward 34:50 Including counselors in ward councils to share the burden and help develop their leadership skills 40:40 Never assuming understanding 44:00 Gained a greater understanding of the Atonement and a richer study of the scriptures Links TheSalesEvangelist.com LinkedIn: DonaldCKelly Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast. Note: This transcript was machine-produced. We would be grateful for help correcting errors. You can help! Simply copy/paste the transcript text into a document, make the corrections, and then copy/paste the corrected text into a comment on the page (below) and we will get the corrected text published!

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We live in a world plagued by pornography and people are looking for help.

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When an individual struggles with pornography they often turn to their church leader for that

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help.

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How does a leader help a person overcome the shame of this issue and start seeing positive progress?

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How can a leader help youth to open up about struggles with pornography?

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What are some lasting proven tactics that actually make a difference.

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In order to help, leading Saints has created the Liberating Saints Library with more

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than 20 presentations featuring individuals who have a unique perspective or expertise around this

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topic.

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Three of those most popular sessions are available to watch now.

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Simply text the word lead to 4747.

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To start watching now or visit leading Saints.org

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slash liberating. My name is Jerry Chong from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I serve in the Varsity Mandarin

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Branch as Elvis Corin President. I support and trust the things that I've heard on

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leading Saints podcast in that their approach has been to be people, to be humans

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and not as callings, and to treat people as humans and as

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and as friends and being very down to earth.

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And truly listening to the members

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and understanding how to help and encourage them to progress in the gospel as

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well as being useful and of use within their ward. award.

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This is a how I lead segment on the leading Saints podcast where we talk all things leadership in the context of being a

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Latter-day Saint. In fact that's our mission as a 501c3 nonprofit organization

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