Alignement at the MTC

A great example of change and alignment are the shifts taking place at the Missionary Training Center. The MTC is (and has been for quite some time) in the process to completely change the training model which teachers use with missionaries. The MTC definitely went through (and is going through) the different stages change that we learned in the leading change model. This change was necessary to better align the training methods with the purpose of the missionary center. Before this change took place things worked well, but everything wasn't perfectly aligned. Teachers and missionaries clearly new their purpose (to invite others to come...) but the method used in classrooms didn't necessarily help to achieve this. Before, many of the training methods focused on learning language tasks. Grammar was taught and a language was learned similarly to being taught in the school. This was good but didn't really focus on the ultimate purpose. The change was to shift from these tasks and language lessons to more language teaching. Grammar was taught but was directed to learning how to teach something new. All training meetings were directed to this change as well, along with all training materials. I feel like this is a great example of how an organization uses to change to better align itself with its ultimate purpose.