Podcast Episode #435
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Personnel teams at churches have a difficult job because they’re often tasked with oversight of people they don’t see but a few times a week. Today we discuss some of the challenges they face.
Some highlights from today’s episode include:
- To accurately assess someone’s work performance, you need to have regular oversight of their work.
- Pastors, make sure you’re in regular communication with your personnel team.
- All personnel confrontations and decisions should be well documented.
- Office hours are often the most misunderstood aspect of vocational ministry.
- Vocational ministry doesn’t have an off switch.
The seven challenges we cover are:
- The biggest: not being there every day
- Listening to only one side of the story
- Being unduly influenced by power groups or individuals
- Showing favoritism to a staff person
- Failing to document their work and conversations
- Not fully understanding vocational ministry
- Not fully understanding compensation and benefit issues
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