Staff

When starting a new church or starting another location, aim to fill the following three positions before any others: It's the experience people have on Sunday that causes a church to grow and these three positions, more than any others, impact the experience your guests have each Sunday, so they should be the priority. It's like this... If you visit a new restaurant and the exterior looks run down, no one greets you at the door, it takes a long time to be seated, the waitress is rude … [Read more...]

RWMC stands for Right, Wrong, Missing Confusing. Every Sunday I have a "note" on my iPhone that has these four words listed. My phone is always in my back pocket and as I notice things, I write them down. Right: worship team killed it, new video went over really well, we had 5 salvations, we had 3 new volunteers sign up for setup Wrong: the mic wasn't on when I started talking, the service went past 65 minutes, I asked a man if the woman with him was his mom and it turned out she was his … [Read more...]

A couple years back I was on a tele-coaching call with Nelson Searcy and I asked him what he does to prevent his staff from burning out. With our volunteers we rotate people one month on then one month off. That's our strategy to not burnout our volunteers but currently we don't have any strategy to not burnout our paid staff. And since I love my staff and don't want them to get burned out I asked Nelson how I go about doing that. I was suprised at his answer. Here's what he said: It is not … [Read more...]

The purpose of teamwork is synergy. Synergy is the state in which the output is greater than the sum of the inputs. One plus one equals three, four, even five! Let me explain... In the 1885 world series of mule team competition, held in Chicago, the winning team pulled 9,000 pounds, the second place team a little less. Someone suggested that they see what the two teams could do together. The result was 30,000 pounds, much more than the sum of their separate loads. Or take geese for … [Read more...]

If you have a low performing staff member (or volunteer) on your team, you basically have three options: 1. Train them. You may have failed to properly equip them to do their job well and if that's the case you need to take a time out and spend some time training them properly and thoroughly. 2. Transfer them. Jim Collins in his book Good to Great points out the importance of both having the right people on the bus (a metaphor for your team) and having each person in the right seat on the bus. … [Read more...]

Want to be a great worker and get promoted? Here’s what the Bible has to say. 1. Do excellent work1 Samuel 18:5 — “Whatever Saul asked David to do, David did it successfully…” 2. Complete the assignment before the deadline1 Samuel 18:24 — “…all I [Saul] want for the bride price is one hundred Philistine foreskins…”1 Samuel 18:26 — “…before the time limit expired, he [David] and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines and presented all their foreskins to the king.” 3. Do more than … [Read more...]