People need to buy a vision, not be sold a task.
We can make the greatest training materials on the planet yet they can gather dust on the shelf if people don't feel there is a compelling reason to attend instead of spending a day playing golf, or watching tv, or going on a picnic with the family, or visiting grandmother in the nuring home, or painting the porch, or mowing the grass or any of the other million things that fill our lives...
Our leaders are asking questions like...
- How will my life be different?
- How can I fulfill my destiny?
- How can I fulfill my part in the great commission?
- How will this make my family stronger?
- How can I fulfill my destiny?
Yet we're answering them with things like...
- It's great training
- Training is important
- Training makes you a better commander
- I've done all the training and I loved it
- Training is important
Something to think about?
Victor.
At 07:58 PM 8/04/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Well... I sorta climbed on my soapbox for a minute there, the courses are great tools. But what really bothers me is that the LTA Courses were re-written with the express purpose to make them more leader friendly. Yet they sit on their hands full of apathy, not taking the courses & wondering why things are not going well. I have taken and taught every course that is out there and find them choc full of good things, well worth the time.
Then my wife recently gave me the book Thinking for a Change, by John Maxwell. I highly recommend it. If I can only accomplish a portion of what he recommends, I will have made a change in my life and those around me. I tend to dream and think a little outside the box, but this book has spurred me on to do more and better things.
Jim Hufferd
