Articles from Leaven
La Leche League's Publication for Leaders:
Leadership Responsibilities, Resources and Skills
These articles deal with resources that help us promote and organize our Groups and keep them running, as well as our work in phone helping. For information on leading LLL Meetings, see our collection of articles on meetings. Articles are grouped under helpful sub-headings, and within those appear in chronological order, with more recent articles first. For your convenience, we also have an index of Leaven articles by date and issue.
We provide articles from our publications from previous years for reference for our Leaders and members. Readers are cautioned to remember that research and medical information change over time.
Looking for an article you don't see? Feel free to suggest additions. Providing the issue and year of publication will help us locate your article.
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- Advertising Your Group/Publicity
- Co-Leading
- Fundraising/Group Finances
- Group Management Resources
- Lactation Consultants/Peer Counselors and Leaders
- Leader Roles and Responsibilities
- LLLI and Affiliate Offerings
- Meeting Formats
- Membership
- Organizational Change
- Phone Helping
- Inspiration for Leaders
Advertising Your Group/Publicity
- Protecting the LLL Name and Logo
- Participating in an Emergency Preparedness Fair
- Should We Go to the Fair?
- Rock and Rest at the Fair
- Dare to Dream, Dare to Do
- La Leche League Presence Makes a Difference
- The Baby Faire
- Effective Public Speaking
- LLL Group Publicity Strategies
- Series Meeting Ad How-Tos
- First Impressions at an LLL Display
- Business Cards: Small But Impressive
- Advertising Exhibits and Policies
- Making Time When Opportunity Rings
- Who, Me? Speak in Public?
- Free and Easy Publicity
- Meet the Public: Tips for Giving LLL Interviews
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Co-Leading
- How I Found My Co-Leader on the Internet
- Chance Made Us Co-Leaders, Hearts Made Us Friends
- LLLI Grievance Commission -- Creating New Acceptable Agreements
- The Alumnae Association Isn't Only for Retired Leaders
- My Friend Becomes a Leader
- Who's In Charge?
- Conflict
- Co-Leader Reunion
- When a Leader Needs a Leader
- Co-Leading: Working Together Effectively
- Understanding the Move-in Leader
- Working Together When Ideas Differ
- Co-Managing the Group
- Welcoming a Move-In Leader
- Co-Leaders: Establishing, Maintaining, and Improving Relationships (dealing with co-Leader conflicts; ways to strengthen bonds between co-Leaders)
- Who Shares Your Group?
- Moving! (suggestions for the Leader who is moving)
- Skills for Effective Co-Leading
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Fundraising/Group Finances
- World Breastfeeding Week News
- A Simple World Breastfeeding Week Celebration -- All by Yourself!
- Baby-Friendly Mom's Night Out!
- Marketing 101 Meets Breastfeeding 101
- How do you celebrate World Breastfeeding Week?
- La Leche League of Jacksonville, Florida, USA Rocks the House -- My House!
- Imagination is Alive and Well
- Rejuvenating Ideas for World Breastfeeding Week Celebrations
- La Leche League Chapel Hill Morning Group's 2007 World Breastfeeding Week Celebrations Grant
- Family Fun Day
- Add Color and Funds to Your Group: Host a Tie-DyeParty!
- "Growing" Your World Breastfeeding Week Celebration
- USA Divisions Joint Project Grants
- Leaders Share How Easy, Fun, and Lucrative Planning for World Breastfeeding Week Can Be!
- A Year in the Life of a World Breastfeeding Week Celebration Team Member
- LLL and the Parkland Project
- A Fundraiser Is Born!
- Planning My World Breastfeeding Week Celebration Changed My Life
- Serendipity: Desirable Discoveries from your World Breastfeeding Week Celebration
- Grants for LLL
- La Leche League Keeps You Warm At Night
- Widening the Circle
- Dollar$ and Cents
- A Fundraiser in Greece: An LLL Leader's Perspective
- Where in the World to Have a World Breastfeeding Week Celebration?
- WABA Announces World Breastfeeding Week 2006 Theme
- Grant Writing in a Small Town
- 2005 World Breastfeeding Week Celebration Winners
- Divine in Purpose and Plan
- Happening House Parties
- Sponsors Make Prizes Possible
- The Ripples from the World Breastfeeding Week Celebration
- World Breastfeeding Week Celebration Funds
- Workplace Giving: Simple for You, Simply Wonderful for LLLI
- The Making of the 2005 World Breastfeeding Week Celebration in the US
- LatchOn.org Breastfeeding Resource Marketplace
- Promoting LLL and Breastfeeding: One Group's WBW Experience
- The Real Reason For World Breastfeeding Week
- Fundraising Q & A
- Putting the Fun Back into Fundraising
- Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week at a Baby Friendly Hospital
- Fundraising Around the World
- History of World Breastfeeding Week
- One Group's Adventure in Fundraising
- Small Streams Make a Mighty River
- Get Involved in Fundraising
- Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week 2004
- 2004 World Breastfeeding Celebration in the USA
- Changes in Discount Schedules and Leader Order Form
- Appropriate Use of Group Funds
- Letters to LLLI: Spending LLL Funds
- World Walk 2002: Walk to Promote Breastfeeding, to Raise Money, to Have Fun
- Conference Fundraising
- World Walk--Got Mothers' Milk?
- Grant Writing, Anyone?
- Handling Group Expenses
- Fundraising Ideas
- Grant Funds Community Awareness (Grant writing tips)
- BREASTFEEDING ANSWER BOOK Sales as a Fundraiser
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Group Management Resources
- "Say What?!" Responding with Respect in Challenging Meeting Situations
- Do I have to go?
- Coping with Deployment as a Parent, Spouse, and Leader
- Starting a Group in a Small Town
- Confidentiality for Leaders
- Our Library Project
- In Search of the Perfect Meeting Place
- PERKS (Priceless and Effortless Resources Kindly Shared)
- Group Libraries
- Construction: Rebuilding an Existing Group
- Key Functions of Effective Meeting Facilitators
- Starting a New Group
- Effective Public Speaking
- Letters to LLLI: Purchasing Books
- Growing Your Group Library
- Leading Two: Is it for You?
- Building a Core Group, part 2
- Phone Help and Memberships
- Building a Core Group
- New Mother Packets
- Leaders and the WHO Code
- The Art of Organization
- Keeping Up-to-Date: Your Leader's Log
- Getting a New Group Off the Ground
- Using Conference Tapes in the Group Library
- Breaking Up Isn't Hard to Do (splitting a Group)
- LLL's Image: What Is LLL Philosophy and What Isn't?
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Lactation Consultants/Peer Counselors and Leaders
- The Peer Counsellor Programme in South Africa, part 2
- The Peer Counsellor Programme in South Africa
- The Peer Counsellor Programme in Great Britain
- Leaders and Peer Counselors: Differences and Similarities
- The LLL Leader and the IBCLC - A Partnership in Breastfeeding History
- LLLI Peer Counselor Programs: Who, What and Why?
- Leader/Lactation Consultant: Separating the Two Roles
- Leaders and Peer Counselors: Differences and Similarities
- Leaders and Lactation Consultants (when, if ever, is it necessary or appropriate for Leaders to refer mothers elsewhere for information?)
- Guidelines for Active Leaders Who Work As Paid Lactation Consultants
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Leader Roles and Responsibilities
- The LLL Alumnae Association is for Active and Retired Leaders and Members!
- The LLL Alumnae Association: It's not just for retired LLL Leaders and Members!
- At Home with THE WOMANLY ART OF BREASTFEEDING
- Self-Care for Leaders: What You Can Do to Stay Energized
- La Leche League Has Done It Again!
- Podcasting and LLL: Are You Listening?
- Reading and Evaluating Breastfeeding Research
- Giving the Gift of Appreciation
- Keeping Up-to-Date: Breastfeeding Abstracts
- The Role of an LLL Leader
- The Alumnae Association Isn't Only for Retired Leaders
- In Search of the Perfect Meeting Place
- The Value of the LLL Group
- What We Are About
- Connection and Reflection
- What Keeps Me Involved with La Leche League?
- The Difference A Leader Makes
- Serendipity Strikes Again
- Paperwork Is People Work!
- Levels of Commitment
- We Fill in the Gaps for Each Other
- Gift Giving Time (why volunteer Leaders contribute to LLLI)
- Why Am I Still a La Leche League Leader?
- Finding Your Balance
- Full Circle: Leader Returns as Grandmother (Reactivating as a Leader)
- The Advantages of Doing More for LLL
- Evaluating Your Effectiveness as a Leader
- Save Yourself from Your List (basic Leader responsibilities)
- Sequencing Spells Relief (applying the sequencing idea to one's time as a Leader)
- Ask Not What LLL Can Do for You... Ask What You Can Do for LLLI
- Do You "C" What I "C"? (The importance of Cause, Corporation, and Community within LLL)
- Behind the Scenes: Developing Effective Leader Skills (provides examples of qualities of effective Leaders)
- Mother to Mother: Our Greatest Strength (tells how the qualifications and duties of a Leader are unique among breastfeeding support personnel)
- Some Things I Don't Worry About Anymore (achieving balanced and realistic expectations)
- The Responsibilities of Leadership: The Leader's Role in LLLI's Mission (how our basic responsibilities contribute to the overall success of LLL)
- Thoughts About LLL's Mission, Goals, and Philosophy (inspiring words about how LLL is much more than breastfeeding information and techniques)
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LLLI and Affiliate Offerings
- Planning a Conference
- LLLI Goes to Penang, Malaysia
- An Unforgettable Conference Experience in Japan
- LLLI Archives Stored at DePaul University
- The Big Picture
- Breastfeeding in New Zealand
- What's New In LLL Japan?
- The Power of Music: A Gathering of the LLLInternational Division
- Honoring the Founders and LLLI
- A Birthday Celebration LLL Style: How one LLL Group in Greece celebrated!
- LLL in Caracas, Venezuela
- Increasing Membership and Publication Sales: Experiences From Italy
- The South African Conference
- First Area Conference of LLL Japan: On Stage and Behind the Scenes
- The Latin American Workshop
- LLL Across the Miles
- The Official Breastfeeding Stamp
- The "I" Is for International
- Arigato (Thank You) from Sami and LLL Japan
- LLL Greece Meets Edwina Froehlich
- A Local Celebration Of LLLNZ's 40th Anniversary
- Mimi de Maza: A Woman of Peace
- Good News from the Middle East!
- Gotitas de Amor
- History of LLL Canada
- A Surprise Trip to Netherlands
- LLL of Mongolia
- LLL New Zealand Turns 40
- It Is Possible
- Interview with New Executive Director Hedy Nuriel
- La Leche League of Paraguay
- 20 Years of Liga de la Leche del Paraguay
- Grains of Sand in Paraguay
- Reports from the European Mastery Symposium
- LLL Deutschland Celebrates 25th Anniversary
- A Sister Group Thank-You
- LLL in Taiwan
- A Success Story
- A Success Story--Promoting Membership, New Zealand Style
- Thirty Years of LLL Presence in Berlin, Germany
- Good News from the World Health Organization
- The Peer Counsellor Programme in South Africa, part 2
- The Birth of Slovenija
- The Peer Counsellor Programme in South Africa
- The Peer Counsellor Programme in Great Britain
- LLL Life in Zimbabwe
- LLLUSA: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
- LLL Germany and LLL Deutschland Unite!
- Retired Nursing Mothers at the World Walk
- Introducing LLL International Division Newsletters
- Thank You, Walkers!
- Leader's Handbook Italian Translation
- One Year Later: THE LEADER'S HANDBOOK
- Translations, Translations, Translations
- Using Human Relations Enrichment (HRE) In Hebrew?
- Leading and Managing an LLL Group in Cape Town, South Africa
- Center for Breastfeeding Information
- Introducing the New LLLI Group Bibliography
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Meeting Formats
- Kitchen Table Breastfeeding
- La Leche League Breastfeeding Café: Breaking the Mold
- A Breastfeeding Café: Could It Work for You?
- My First Open Space
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Membership
- New Membership Program to Increase LLL Members
- Increasing Membership and Publication Sales: Experiences From Italy
- Cultivation Luncheon
- Now That's a Real Meal Deal!
- Harvest Time
- A New Look at the Old Year
- Promoting Membership at Group Meetings
- LLL Leadership: Happy to Renew
- Membership: A Best Buy
- A Success Story--Promoting Membership, New Zealand Style
- A Kaleidoscope of Membership Ideas
- How Do You Promote Membership?
- Best Bargain Ever
- The "Write" Way to Attract Members
- Sign-Up New Members
- Getting Off to a Good Start
- A Perfect Fit
- It's Our Attitude That Counts Most
- One Group's Testimonial (promoting membership at meetings)
- Attendance and Membership Are Linked
- Back to the Basics
- Membership Matters
- Helping "Invisible" Mothers
- Membership Matters
- Worth a Thousand Words (Using visual aids to promote membership at meetings)
- Membership Sale!
- Lone Leading (suggestions for promoting membership)
- Let Mothers Choose Membership (suggestions for promoting membership)
- Membership: Concerns, Attitudes, and Approaches (why memberships are so important, plus great tips for promoting memberships)
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Organizational Change
- Book Evaluation Committee Guidelines
- New Organizational System Ready for Launch
- Working with the Draft Principles
- Defining the Renewal Initiative Purpose Statement
- How to Talk about the Chaordic Process
- Plain Talk about the Chaordic Initiative
- Chaordic Update: Strength through Diversity
- Up Close with the Chaordic Initiative Drafting Team
- Using Chaordic Concepts to Pursue a La Leche League Vision
- The Six Lenses
- Everything you wanted to know about Chaordic & LLLI
- Management Systems from Feudal to Chaordic
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Phone Helping
- LLL Breastfeeding Helpline-US and the Department of Health and Human Services Join Forces to Help Employed Mothers and Business Bottom Line
- Listening Well Enough
- How the LLL Breastfeeding Helpline in the US Benefits You!
- New USA Helpline for Moms: 877-4-LALECHE
- Book Review: Breastfeeding A-Z: Terminology and Telephone Triage
- What Do I Say after I Say, "Hello "?
- The HotLLLine Needs You!
- When They Criticize LLL (mostly about a particular book, but the ideas can be applied to dealing with criticism from anyone)
- Power Tools for Telephone Helping
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Inspiration for Leaders
- Reclaiming the Art of Breastfeeding
- Girl Scouts Volunteer at the LLLI Office to Help New Moms "Be Prepared"
- JoAnne W. Scott: 2008 Scholarship Winners
- One Day to Change the World
- Circles of Support
- Volunteering LLLeads to Family
- The LLL Galaxy: Reaching Mothers Around the World
- At Home with THE WOMANLY ART OF BREASTFEEDING
- Self-Care for Leaders: What You Can Do to Stay Energized
- Inspiration All Around Us
- Connections
- Pay It Forward
- Why I Am a Leader (one Leader's thoughts on her 26+ years of being a Leader)
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