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Do you __________ your staff & volunteers?

You might guess:

A. Love

B. Motivate

C. Train

And those are good answers. But here’s a better one for you.

D. Shepherd

For most of us, the people closest to us on a day-to-day basis are our staff and key volunteers, right? But, are we *really* serving as a pastor to them?

We love, motivate and train our staff and volunteers . . . but what about our shepherding responsibility? You owe it to your staff and volunteers to shepherd them.

But pastoring a staff is different than pastoring a church.

A big mistake is to shepherd your staff and volunteers like everyone else in your church. Yes, you pastor your entire church… and staff and volunteers are part of your church.

But they are different.

You have a unique relationship with your staff. You have a different relationship with your volunteers. So, you must shepherd them differently.

But how?

That’s the question Pastor and Church Growth Strategist Nelson Searcy dives into in this new (short) resource, Shepherding Your Staff and Volunteers. After debating this issue for many years in Nelson’s coaching networks — evaluating his own management of staff and key volunteers, while pulling lessons from his most successful coaching alumni — he has now put it all together in one place.

He was challenged to answer this question: What is my shepherding responsibility for my staff and volunteers?

What Nelson found in answering that question is that it’s not about 100 different things. It’s about a very few but profound things.

Originally recorded for his Advanced Coaching Network, this resource is densely packed with proven principles and strategies to strengthen your ministry team, including:

  • Exactly what it means to Shepherd your staff and volunteers (it’s different than how you shepherd the rest of your staff)
  • The ONE thing you must do every day to shepherd them – it probably takes less than 30 seconds a day, but no one in Nelson’s Advanced Coaching Network admitted to doing it daily before this training. Full disclosure: Nelson wasn’t doing it daily prior to this either . . . but he does it now. Every day.
  • How you pastor those closest to you sets the environment for how everyone is pastored ( if you fail to pastor staff and volunteers . . . everyone else suffers)
  • Why shepherding your staff and volunteers means greater accountability, not less
  • The three things you must first do with your staff and volunteers to effectively shepherd them. You can’t shepherd them without these three things.
  • How your relationship changes with a church member when they join your staff or become a key volunteer. The change is neither good nor bad but it is a change. And you must lead through it. Nelson shows you how.
  • The truth about the pervasive teaching of ‘get people on the bus and then get them in the right seat’ and why this MYTH will destroy your staff ( this one teaching is worth the total investment of the resource).
  • The one thing you MUST do for your staff (if you have staff, you can’t delegate this . . . you must do it. Good news: it probably will take less than 60 seconds).
  • The one thing that you must see happen for every key volunteer (you may not have to do this yourself but you must build a process to ensure it's done).
  • How to criticize or realign or confront a staff member or key volunteer while enhancing, not destroying, your pastoral / shepherding relationship.
  • How to cultivate a true pastor’s heart for your staff and volunteers.
  • How to pastor onetalent, twotalent and fivetalent staff/volunteers (the process is different . . . Jesus taught it. Nelson shows you have to live it out each day).
  • How to lower your stress and the headaches that come from staff and volunteer management. Get the pastor/shepherding side right and you will have LESS PROBLEMS.
  • How to appropriately praise your staff and volunteers (most of us are doing it wrong).
  • Why you can’t force your staff to grow spiritually . . . but there are things you can do and must do.
  • How to talk effectively with your staff & volunteers about their spiritual growth. Sometimes we let them get so busy that we never stop and have this conversation (shame on us).
  • Why you can’t be the ‘best friend’ to your staff & key volunteers. But even better . . . you CAN be their pastor. Nelson shows you the difference.
  • How to cut down on impromptu meetings (got a min?) while improving the quality of your communication. Sheep know the shepherd's voice.
  • How to fire or dehire a person and help them stay in your church and still see you as their pastor (sometimes you can’t but Nelson will show you how it can and when it should happen).
  • And much more!

So, if you oversee staff or volunteers — whether you are the Senior Pastor, Executive Pastor, Worship Pastor, Minister of Volunteers or whatever title you might carry — you owe it to the staff and volunteers you serve to pick up this resource. Listen to it. Devour it. Or, just get one or two little ideas (they may be little but they are powerful) that will help you be a better pastor.

Let’s choose to be better shepherds to our staff and volunteers! We all have room to grow and improve.

Includes:

  • Audio Training on MP3 that you can transfer to your iTunes, MP3 player or listen online.

    CD buyers - You will also get a FREE download version so you can listen immediately!
  • Complete Transcript of the training that you can save onto your computer or tablet and read in more depth after going through the audio training.
  • Student Guide with fill-in-the-blank notes in a convenient PDF format that you can print and use to follow along, or simply view on your computer or tablet for easy reference.
  • A Complete Leader’s Guide so that you can take this workshop and train other pastors and key leaders on your team. You’ll have everything you need to lead this workshop in your church!

A little about Nelson Searcy

Nelson Searcy is an experienced church planter, coach and church growth strategist, consulting with churches around the world, including many of the largest and fastest-growing ones. He’s also the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church in New York City. Started in 2002, this groundbreaking church sees the majority of its growth coming from new believers and currently meets in locations in Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island, as well as San Francisco and Boca Raton, FL. Nelson is the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Donald A. McGavran Award for Outstanding Leadership in Great Commission Research. He’s the author of over 80 church growth resources and 14 books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry . He’s trained more than 50,000 church leaders as founder of Church Leader Insights and the Renegade Pastors Network.



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