Category: Staffing
-
Are You the Type of Person that can Work at a Fast-Growing Church?
Not everyone gets to work at a fast-growing church. Yes, I know a list comes out every year that identifies America’s top 100 fastest growing churches and there’s a lot of staff members represented in those top 100 churches. But in context to the more than 400,000 churches in America that’s a pretty small percentage…
-
Top Posts of 2017 #3 “5 Things that make Good Church Staff Member Leave your Church”
We’re now into the top 3 posts from 2017 and it’s no surprise that topic of building and keeping the right team comes in at number 3. Good Church Staff Members leave churches for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it’s because God has called them to something different. But more often than not it’s because…
-
Top Posts of 2017 #4 “Stop Hiring People to Work at your Church”
I just wrote this post back in October and it jumped up the Top-10 chart quickly! It addresses one of the most significant and common lids to growth that churches experience. Churches love to hire people. I mean they really love to hire people. Often times when churches are just starting off, staff members will…
-
Top Posts of 2017 #6 “6 Keys to Motivating Millennial Church Leaders”
As I already mentioned in this countdown, millennials were a popular topic on my blog this year. This is the second post in this year’s countdown that had to do with millennial church leaders. If you have any millennials on your church staff you know that they’re different. And while many traditional church leaders are…
-
Top Posts of 2017 #8 “When to Invest in a Young Leader and when to Ignore them”
A lot of people in church world are trying to figure out millennials. How do reach them, motivate them, develop them, and of course how do we hand of leadership of the Church to them? So it’s no surprise that this topic was a popular one on my blog this year. Like it or not,…