Leaderboard

One of the biggest shockers for me when I was in-residence way corps was the total lack of leadership training. IRWC has been touted as the greatest leadership training in the whole world. I was a paid manager / leader before going into the way corps. So you can imagine my surprise when management / leadership skills were not taught. Of course they had us read several Dale Carnegie books, but let's get real - I could have read those on my own. Lacking from the program was: - scope (understanding the big picture) - resource management - time management - milestones / deadlines I kept the categories succinct but under each listed much could be expounded. And the way corps like to sneer at "non-corps", as quoted from a post Oakspear made earlier. There was much more lacking but I have made the point well enough, hopefully.

Arriving at Rome City campus I remember seeing a poster on the wall "The world out The Word in " The unspoken purpose is the real aim of corps training - indoctrination! Of course, this is not what I expected when I went in... everything that had brought me to the point of crossing the campus threshold was geared to gaining my absolute trust of TWI....critical thinking - everything you knew about thinking, analyzing, decision making - - would gradually slough off - - this would allow them more or less a free rein of my blind obedience... .as I said before - this is not what I expected...and to be honest, it was not what I thought my way corps training was about ...until I came to Grease Spot years ago and started comparing notes. thank God I am free of that deluded and manipulative crazy-town !

Silly, girl. VPW and LCM took over because Jesus was too busy in heaven, so Christ made them his personal assistants.

Originally, the corps wasto be the ultimate sales force to push Wierwille's money making machine forward...now it's a facade...in an attempt to maintain the requirements for theor tax exempt status with the IRS... ...today I would call them the gullible of the gullible...

A corps grad once was talking to me, (AFTER the local leaders had split off from twi), and was telling me about the concept of serving others, charitable works and so on, and expounding on them like this was the first time in his life he'd ever heard of such a thing, and that I'd never heard of them at all. I replied (I was in college at the time) that I had already had several years of experience in a service organization in college, and I'd already put in hundreds of hours of community service if not thousands- adding that if he needed to get some pointers on what works, he could ask me and I'd be glad to fill him in. In other words, the entire time he and the corps were in, the concepts and practice of SERVING OTHERS was foreign, and I learned MUCH more about it in college as extracurricular activities than he did in a paid leadership program. No training in actual leading, no training in serving others. Other than "how to be subservient to twi", did the program ever really cover anything but busy-work, occupying the students' time until they left? The more I think of how deficient and dysfunctional the whole program was, the more impressed I am that anyone came out of it able to help anyone at all, let alone some people surviving with their compassion standing.

Old School - - ya know - - IF they wanted to become a class-A organization they would have taught at least some of the things you suggested. It seems it was easier to lead by throwing your weight around. In the end, IMHO that was the single thing that brought them down. Just magnify "throw your weight around" and extrapolate and you find the source of every single rape...and marriage destruction. I have no doubt that most of those who went corps desires to serve bigger and better than they could otherwise. I really believe this is true. But I think there were some who saw a way to get through life on the backs of others and those are the ones many of us remember just because of the hurt they caused and the bad taste they left in our mouths. There were many very good people who went corps. I know....I met many of them.....but if they had been taught just some of the things on your list, they all would have brought the love of God all over the country.