A Leadership Makeover

Sorry for the long delay in posts, but as they say, life flies on wings of lightning. So it has been this last week. We had the privilege of spending the first half of the week with new HM Executive Director Virginia Dixon and her family. We rode the ATVs, fished the lake, shot clay pigeons and black powder and cooked, ate, cleaned, played and prayed together on the mountain and created a lasting legacy of friendship with the Dixon family. What a wonderful way of getting to know and appreciate our leaders and their families. It was especially great to get to know Ray better and to feel his love and leadership of his family. Thanks Caleb, Jordan, and Morgan for joining your mom for the celebration of her HM success and spending time with the Clowards at Aspen Lodge. We loved getting to know and love you more.

On Thursday we traveled to Park City for the Sr. Leader Round Table and Leadership Conference. We were at the the new New Park Hotel and the facility and comradery were great. The discussions insightful and energizing. The leadership training was invaluable and the friendships and networking supercharging for the business. We look forward to more of you attending with us at Reunion in September and at next year's Leadership Conference.

The most important information of the Conference focused on the shift from Heritage Celebrations to Heritage Workshops. Thanks to Wendy McGee, Hallie Redd, Heidi Arave and Mary Hansen for their roles in developing the new Workshop format and for the presentation to help Leaders get the vision of how we will move forward with the goal of every attendee becoming a heritage maker, not just a story keeper. We will continue to pilot this exciting shift in the way we present HM and will have Workshop Kits ready for Reunion. In the meantime we encourage all consultants to get with your upline leader to get the picture and start the transition of how we explain and teach heritage making in a workshop format.

The basic focus is a sequence of simple discussions and interactions with a small group (six) participants (not guests). The sequence is -- photos, stories, scanning, heritage, studio (new demo DVD is coming), premier, membership, packages, opportunities (workshop hosting, scanning and consultancies). As we get our entire consultant organization using the system and the simple scripts that will come on cue cards in the Workshop Kit it, we will "cookie cutter" the business so that it is simple and duplicative for all our new people. This will truly position us to move into momentum growth this fall and on into the next year.

It was an intense training and development event, but it wasn't all work. After all, it was a Leadership Makeover. There were the professional massages at check in, the spa products in the rooms, the Jacuzzi tubs on every balcony, the Alpine Slide after the ski lift to the top of Park City mountain. But the absolute best was just being together again with the other HM Directors and Sr. Leaders from across the country. To sum up the experience, we were truly --- inspired, instructed and motivated. Please get with you upline Leader to get more of the details about her Leadership Makeover and what she has brought back for you.

The next post will come after a bit of R & R on the mountain preparing for the next round of chemo and contemplating some tough decisions we must make about my treatment and life going forward. Until then,

Onward and upward

Love Doug