What Does a Church Leadership Training Meeting Look Like? | A How I Lead Interview with Matt Bardsley and Kimberly Perkins

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Matt Bardsley grew up in Montana, and after a mission to New Jersey moved to Utah to go to school and has been there ever since. He has a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in Sociology and a master’s degree from Utah State University in Education. He has been a seminary teacher for 19 years, 12 of those serving as a local faculty principal where he gets to train teachers. He is a former Young Men president, elders quorum president, ward mission leader, bishopric member, high councilor, and stake Young Men president, and currently serves as first counselor in his stake Young Men presidency.

Kim Perkins is a coach with Accepted, passionate about guiding individuals on their journey to healing and fostering deep connections, and empowering them to unlock their true potential and lead fulfilling lives. Kim enjoys the great outdoors, hiking, volleyball, and embarking on exciting travel adventures with her husband and four children. She currently serves in her stake Young Women presidency.

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Highlights
This dynamic discussion with Kim and Matt centers around the importance of mentorship and effective training for youth leaders. They share their experiences and insights on how to transform traditional youth leadership approaches into more impactful mentorship roles, and emphasize the significance of understanding one's purpose, identifying youth life goals, and fostering transformational relationships rather than merely filling time during weekly activities.

Kim and Matt explain their approach to training, which includes quarterly sessions for all youth leaders and more targeted workshops for specific wards. They focus on practical skills such as effective communication, delegation, and connecting youth activities to the teachings of Jesus Christ. By observing and providing feedback in real time, they help leaders recognize their strengths and areas for improvement.

05:31 - Kim's Experience in Youth Leadership
06:26 - Matt's Background in Teaching Youth

Transcript

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0:00.0	Does a youth leader ever feel like they haven't figured out?
0:08.2	This hasn't been my experience.
0:10.3	However, I couldn't be an effective youth leader today without Dan Duckworth's presentation
0:15.6	about going from youth worker to youth mentor.
0:18.7	Mentorship is a key concept to understand when leading youth. In his
0:22.0	presentation, Dan talks about ways to really turn the traditional approach to leading youth on its
0:27.6	head. How can you better know your purpose? How can you find out their life goals? How can you
0:32.8	build a relationship that is transformational rather than simply filling time during the weekly youth activity.
0:38.3	You can watch Dan's presentation in the Young Saints virtual library by going to leadingsaints.org slash 14.
0:45.3	You'll get free access for 14 days and that will give you plenty of time to watch Dan's presentation a few times.
0:52.3	Let's give youth the leadership they deserve. So my name is Kurt Frankum, and I am the founder and executive director of Leading Saints and obviously the host of the Leading Saints podcast.
1:26.6	Now, I started Leading Saints back in 2010. It was just a
1:30.8	hobby blog, and it grew from there by the time 2014 came around. We started the podcast, and that's
1:37.4	really when it got some traction and took off 2016. We became a 501 C3 nonprofit organization, and we've been growing ever since. And now I get the
1:47.1	opportunity of interviewing and talking with remarkable people all over the world. Now, this is a
1:52.9	segment we do on the Leading Saints podcast called How I Lead. And we reach out to everyday leaders.
1:58.7	They're not experts, gurus, authors, PhDs.
2:01.8	They're just everyday leaders who've been asked to serve in a specific leadership calling.
2:06.2	And we simply ask them, how is it that you lead?
2:08.8	And they go through some remarkable principles that should be in a book that should be behind a PhD.
2:13.7	They're usually that good.
2:15.3	And we just talk about sharing what the other guy is doing.
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