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A Guide to Church Staff Performance Reviews
I once heard on a podcast that staff performance communication at churches can be so bad, it can often come across to the employee like, “we love you, we love you, we love you. You’re fired.”
When I heard that, I shuttered. Unfortunately, it’s true.
As a church, staff performance reviews seem like a no brainer, but practically, can be really difficult to execute. This is why many churches don’t have them at all and you end up in a bad situation like I mentioned from that podcast.
The church is not a business, even us Executive Pastors know that 😉, but then again, we don’t want to have the wrong person in the wrong role or to neglect the importance of challenging church employees to be more effective for the mission they’re called to. So some kind of regular way to assess church staff seems wise.
But based on what metric? The kinds of goals our staff are ultimately after are the sanctification of God’s people and the growth of His kingdom — how can our staff reasonably be assessed on these eternal (and Holy Spirit dependent) goals?
Tricky. But important and I’d argue, not unsolvable. It just requires a little more thoughtfulness.
In 2022 at Arrowhead Church, we needed to solve this very problem. We needed a process for regularly evaluating…
