John Maxwell’s Law Of The Inner Circle says, “Those closest to you determine your level of success.” Therefore, pastors, one of the most important things you can do to have a successful ministry is hire and develop a quality staff.
During the September 2nd edition of the Perry Noble Leadership Podcast, Perry discussed how he develops the incredible staff of NewSpring Church. I felt his insights were so important I wanted to pass them along to you. The following are 31 Lessons For Pastors On Building A Great Church Staff I captured from Perry’s podcast:
- Our church is not an organization because I’m a great leader. Our church is a great organization because we have a great team.
- Individual players get noticed but teams win championships.
- I don’t look for education. Just because a person has a lot of degrees does not mean they’re smart.
- The number one quality I look for in a person is grit. Grit is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get something done.
- You may not have the resources but do you have the resourcefulness? Because if you have resourcefulness the resources will come.
- If you pat yourself on the back enough, you’re setting yourself up for a fall.
- The person who’s always telling you how hard they work is probably not working that hard.
- Everybody on our team, you have the ability to be the best in the world at what you do. There’s no excuse to not be constantly learning.
- $19.99 for a book is a pretty cheap price to pay for wisdom.
- I just want people who are going to work hard. If you show up at 9:02 and you leave at 4:58 everyday you’re probably not going to be on staff.
- If you’re here on time, and you stay until it’s time to go home and work hard while you’re here. And if you’ll do those things, that is an irreplaceable team member.
- I’m always recruiting.
- I am the primary recruiter for NewSpring Church.
- It’s the responsibility of the leader to recruit the team. It’s the responsibility of the leader to grow the team.
- God gives different people different abilities so my job as a leader isn’t to take a one talent person and make them a five talent person. My job as a leader is to make sure that the one talent person doesn’t bury that talent in the sand.
- A leader cannot hold people accountable for unspoken, unrealistic expectations.
- At the end of the day, you don’t get excuses. You get good quality work. They just get stuff done.
- All a rut is is an extended grave.
- One of the things great teams do is they’re constantly pushing the edge, trying new things.
- We’ve made our staff meetings more frequent. We have an every-week staff meeting. It’s by video. We bring everybody in live nine or 10 times a year.
- About a year ago I gave everybody on staff my cell phone number. That’s like 400 people.
- Trust in a leader is essential for a team to grow and be successful.
- As leaders, the longer I lead, if I’m not careful, the more assumptions I’ll make.
- I just assume people think like I think.
- Leaders are repeaters. Leaders are repeaters. Leaders are repeaters.
- We have people on staff who were in a nursery when NewSpring started.
- The danger as a leader, is sometimes we hire people, we tell them what they’re supposed to do, and we cut ’em loose. We weren’t looking for a team member. We were looking for relief.
- If you’re going to be a great builder of teams, sooner or later you’ve got to pass out some encouragement.
- If a team wins, they celebrate in the locker room.
- They’ll celebrate the win. Then the next day they’ll start correcting the mistakes.
- There is nothing wrong on Sunday that you can’t fix on Monday.
What is one thing you can take from this podcast which will make you a better team?
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