Leadership Begins With Stories | An Interview with Kyle Turner

Kyle Turner is a pharmacist and clinical faculty member at the
University of Utah where he researches and teaches courses in
leadership. He spends much of his time as a consultant and trainer
in leadership development for Intend Health Strategies, a
non-profit dedicated to enhancing leadership team dynamics in
health care settings. Kyle is currently serving as a counselor in a
bishopric and has served previously as a stake Sunday School
president, branch presidency counselor, in a ward Young Men
presidency and Sunday School presidency, and as ward clerk. He and
his wife Katelyn have three children. Links Teaching Through Better
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Get 14-day access to the Core Leader Library Highlights 01:50
Introduction to Kyle Turner. His career, calling, and his
experience in healthcare leadership development. 04:15 What is
relational leadership? 06:30 Where do we start with relational
leadership? We have to raise our level of awareness so that we act
with more intentionality. 07:30 How do you create more self
awareness? 11:20 Kyle shares more examples of relational leadership
and awareness. 12:30 When you aren’t the one in charge but you want
to create more awareness and share ideas on how to improve. 15:00
There are simple ways to share our stories and there are easy
frameworks we can use. Kyle shares ways that we can make sharing
our stories less awkward and integrate them into our elders quorum
or relief society lessons. 21:20 When sharing a story or having
people share their story, keep it to 2-3 minutes. Get to the point
and make it easy for people to pay attention. 24:50 Questions to
use to help people use the framework challenge, choice, outcome.
How leaders can change the lesson dynamic by helping people share
their stories. 32:00 Connecting the head and heart through story
sharing. We are calling people to action in our church meetings but
we aren’t engaging the heart. 33:40 Embedding announcements in
stories to help people remember and be more engaged 36:30 If you
are teaching or speaking, think about the one point you want to get
across, a story that goes with it, and what's the how associated
with it. Engage the senses. 38:40 The story of now. It's a call to
action. You frame the nightmare if you don’t act and the hope if
you do. 42:50 Stop trying to push an agenda but build a community.
Stories help us learn more about each other and get past the
surface talk. 44:10 One issue in the church is that we are built on
a foundation of behaviors and there isn't a connection there.
Focusing on behaviors doesn’t propel an organization forward like
stories do. Stories help us see people as people. They aren’t just
a ministering assignment or a random person in the ward. 48:15 Kyle
shows an example of sharing a story. Sharing a challenge, choice,
and outcome in 2 to 3 minutes. 56:50 Kurt also shares a story from
his mission. 1:02:40 Kyle’s final thoughts on leadership and how it
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