Leadership Workshop

I really enjoyed listening to Kirk Weisler Monday night. I learned a lot from him in that short amount of time. A lot of the things he talked about was "common sense" but yet a lot of us do not take the opportunities he was talking about.

The thing that stuck with me the most from what he said was "readers are leaders - leaders are readers." I am not a big reader at all but Kirk got me excited about wanting to read several of the books he talked out. They seemed to have topics in them that I could apply to real life. I would have probably never heard about most of those books if he had not come to talk to us. I wanted The Dog Poop Initiative book to read at our next staff meeting and was so excited when we each received a copy. We have not really had any major issues on this topic, but I still think it would be a good idea to read it just as a different way of doing the meetings. I want to be like Kirk and inspire my employees to want to keep learning, not only about fitness but being leaders too. They are all leaders in their own areas and like Kirk said leaders need to keep learning.

Kirk was a great example of a leader. He inspired me (the non-reader) to want to go actually buy some of the books he was talking about. He was able to capture our attention and keep us engaged for a long time. Kirk also gave us several lessons that we will be able to take with us on our leadership journey. He wanted to give us examples of how he applied these lessons in real life, which was easier for us to pick up the concept of.

Hopefully the leaders in our class were at the workshop and listening to what Kirk had to say. This way they can be contagious and inspire us!