I first learned of the Pareto Principle my freshman year in Bible college from a John Maxwell book when I wrote a paper on leadership for one of my classes. The Pareto Principle basically teaches that 20% of the people do 80% of the work, and that it then takes the other 80% of the people to do the other 20% of the work. There are many ways you can apply the Pareto Principle, but in this post we’ll apply it to spending time with volunteers in your church.
As leaders we all have a limited amount of time and energy. It would be awesome if we could spend equal amounts of time with each person in the church and with each volunteer, but the truth is, we can’t. We simply don’t have the time. Therefore, we have to be strategic by investing our limited time and limited energy with the 20% of volunteers that produce 80% of the results.
If you’re the lead pastor and have staff you need to invest your limited time and energy into your staff. If you’re the lead pastor without staff you need to invest your limited time and energy into the 20% of volunteers in your church that are doing 80% of the work. If you’re one of the pastors on staff you need to invest your limited time and energy into the 20% of volunteers in your department that are responsible for 80% of the work getting done.
Your Skillful Hands post have been very helpful. Thank you for sharing these resources 🙂
You are most welcome! I’m happy to return what I learn 🙂 If you know of anyone else that might benefit from the blog feel free to pass it along. Have a great day Yvette!