I get a talk slip about 4 weeks ago, with my name on the householder line and another sister's name in the main line, but two arrows indicating switching them. No big deal; talks aren't hard. I d...
I don't know if I should chime in here or not... I have a different perspective. For a few years I scheduled the school. I am sure it has taken years off of my life, every week to call and remi...
I have a question for you...Garrett always talks about how he will never tell someone from the platform to "work on" something. He said he doesn't have the heart to do it. Afterwards when he counsels the person he will give them advice and tell them to try to work on something, but on the platform he said the person would do the worst job ever, and he would never tell them they need to work on that. Are you like that too?
I have never been school overseer... just the school scheduler.
IIRC when we started with the BE book, the instructions changed to, commend, commend, commend. If anything would need 'counsel' it would be done privately after the meeting.
I have know of a few people that ANY council would be a crushing blow,(flaxen wick, reed etc.) so small suggestions etc. is all they are ready for.
Everyone is different. So, knowing the student is probably more important than getting everyone to the same level. Think about it a school with no finish. Plenty of time for some to make minute advances.
Don't know if that helps.