When Leaders Accidentally Limit Their Effectiveness | An Interview with Dustin Peterson

Dustin Peterson is the founder and president of Proof Leadership
Group, a leadership consultancy that works with organizations to
train leaders and help develop their company culture. He is also
the author of three books—Find Your Fit, Talented, and Reset—and
coaches individuals to help them get unstuck in their careers. He
currently serves as the stake president in the Friendswood Texas
Stake and has served as a branch president, stake presidency
counselor, and counselor in the Texas Houston South Mission. He
lives in Houston with his wife and four children and loves bacon
and Dallas sports teams. Links Elevate your next sacrament meeting
talk with a few easy tips Self-assessment in Teaching in the
Savior's Way Self-assessment in Preach My Gospel DustinPeterson.org
ProofLeadership.com Previous podcast interviews: —Clarifying
Purpose to Guide Your Calling, Work, & Family Life | An
Interview with Dustin Peterson —Leading‎‎‏‏‎ ‎with Your God-Given
Talents | An Interview with Dustin Peterson Dustin's books: —Find
Your Fit: Three Steps to Choosing a Best-Fit College Major and
Career —Talented : Discovering and Using Your God-given Talents to
Find More Joy in Life —Reset: How to Get Paid and Love What You Do
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Highlights 02:00 Kurt introduces Dustin and this episode’s topic of
the law of the lid. 04:00 Dustin talks about his journey in
leadership the last few years. He shares what it was like to serve
as a counselor to a mission president and his responsibilities.
07:30 Getting called as stake president, which is his current
calling 9:50 Finding balance with work and being stake president
11:15 The law of the lid. The organization will rise no higher than
the effectiveness of its leadership. If you aren’t getting
leadership training then you will become the lid to that
organization’s growth. 14:00 The hardest person that you will have
to lead is yourself. Focus on how you can grow, not the other
people in your organization. How can you be more effective? 16:00
The law of the lid trickles down to every individual. A family can
rise no higher than the effectiveness of the parents. The
individual will rise no higher than their own personal
effectiveness. If we are not improving then we are flatlining.
17:00 How can we begin to apply the law of the lid? Dustin shares
an experience he had as a branch president trying to solve
everyone’s problems when they weren’t his to solve. Christ solves
the problem. When leaders think that it’s up to them to solve
people’s problems then they are the lid. The Savior is the only one
that doesn’t have a lid. 20:40 As leaders we have to point people
to the Savior. Oftentimes we point people to the mechanism or the
vehicle that is going to help them heal. Things like: prayer,
scriptures, and the temple. It’s not actually those things that
bring healing. It’s Him that is going to heal not the vehicle. We
do all those things to hear Him. 22:30 Talk to God about your
problems; only He can solve them. It’s not the job of the leader to
solve problems. Leaders are to point people to the Savior in order
to receive His power and grace. 25:00 People oftentimes know the
answer to their problems but they just need someone to talk to and
someone to support and lift them. Leaders can ask questions like:
What promptings have you received? How do you think you can solve
this problem? 26:40 Besides pointing people to the Savior, it's
important to develop our personal effectiveness as leaders. Dustin
shares some ways that we can do this. 31:00 Dustin shares some
examples of how he, as a stake president with his high council,
have tried to develop their personal effectiveness and raise the
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