STAFFING FOR TODAY & TOMORROW’S VISION
Each year, finding, onboarding, and retaining staff seems to get more difficult. Beyond financial capacity, vision, or a passion for your church to reach its one, the next leader will be the lid for capacity. We must find, support, and develop younger staff like never before.
Three thresholds for staffing:
Launch Residency
Learn to Think Like a Recruiter
Rethink Compensation
Launch Residency
Who’s the next you? Your church must begin a process with the goal of growing young leaders into full-time staff. These candidates may be ministry-focused college grads, second-career members of your church, or even have a seminary degree. But how will you find, support, and develop them?
LINKS TO RESOURCES:
Short Blog: Framework. Learn the rails of residency: education, spiritual formation, and soft skills. Ownership, a Mental Wellness Plan, Developmental Conversations, and Best Practices frame this picture.
Deeper Dive: Lp Podcast, Collection One Seven episodes that are each seven minutes long.
Masterclass join us in October for two and a half days.
Get the eBook Five Critical Competences every new hire must have by hitting this button:
Learn to Think Like a Recruiter
Your organization must be always recruiting even if you aren’t hiring. Someone(s) on your team must champion the idea of building a referred pipeline of candidates. Learn how to serve them along their journey even if you don’t hire them (this time around).
LINKS TO RESOURCES:
Short Blog: 5 Steps. Learn how to think like a recruiter in these five steps. Here’s more
Deeper Dive: The Recruiter’s Edge join us at this 90-minute training offered each month.
ReThink Compensation
Setting aside senior pastors and executive pastors for a moment, staff salaries have been stagnant for over two decades. We should stop comparing ourselves to other churches, or to the public education system (both would say they are under-paying. Allowing our potential purple unicorns to leave after 7-10 years of experience is robbing the church of the most fruitful years of their ministry (the future ones). All leaders are worth more to the Kingdom with each subsequent year of experience.
LINKS TO RESOURCES:
Short Blog: More. A blog post by our co-founder, Dave Miller. Your staff should make more.
Compensation Study. What Church Interns/Residents are Paid. I mentioned that I don’t like these, but we did one anyway! Here it is.
Deeper Dive: Let’s talk…
