I hear all the time, “how did The Oaks put together such an incredible staff?” I love hearing that because I love the staff at the church I get to serve at and it makes me happy to see other people notice that they are great people. Something I heard from Craig Groeschel a couple of weeks ago has helped me understand that many of these people who ask this question aren’t as far from a great staff as they think they are.
Craig said, the difference between a good staff and a great staff is 10%.
A good staff is made up of…
20%-Great Leaders
70%-Good Leaders
10%-Average Leaders
A GREAT staff is made up of…
30%-Great Leaders
70%-Good Leaders
So there are two questions you must answer:
1. How do I get rid of the 10% average leaders?
2. How do I add 10% more great leaders?
Before you get angry and say how could a church “get rid” of people just because they are average leaders let me encourage you to develop plans to move them from “average” to “good.” The same way you will need to develop plans to move your “good” leaders to “great” leaders.
With that said (written), there will be a time to move people on and at that point you want to look to hire greatness. At the risk of sounding like a self-serving comercial I am going to tell you ONE of the best ways to do that is to utilize an outside firm such as HelpStaff.me to come in and assess your needs, develop a target profile for the position, and go out and hunt down greatness for you. I will get more into that in another post.
If you at times find yourself frusterated that you don’t have a GREAT staff, know this, you aren’t as far off as you may think you are from it.
