Daniel Im

Pastor + Author

leadership

Hiring for Potential or Past Performance?

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What do you do when your church is growing and your responsibilities are increasing?

The first thing that you should always do is to delegate the peripheral aspects of your role – those things that others can easily do. You then need to build up teams of volunteers to do the work of ministry. As you do this, there will come a point where your responsibilities of leading and delegating will max you out, it’s then that you need to hire another staff member, assuming that your weekly offering can support it.

The point of this post isn’t to tell you what role to hire next, how much to pay them, or how many hours to hire them for. Those are details for another time.

The point of this post is to determine whether or not you should hire for potential or for past performance.

Should you hire for past performance?
Hiring for past performance seems like the wiser and easier thing to do. After all, you can see if they have direct experience in what you need them to do, and how they performed. The flaw with this is that you are hiring that individual, not their previous context nor their team. This is the problem when organizations lure superstars from other organizations – it’s a gamble. Even if you were to give that person the same job as they had in their previous organization, they wouldn’t perform the same.

A different culture and context affect job performance significantly.

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Tuesday’s Thought – Leonardo da Vinci and Simplicity

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Leonardo da Vinci is arguably one of the most talented artists that has ever lived. Among his works are the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. In addition to his ability to create art, did you know that he had a stellar vision for what did not yet exist? He conceptualized solar power, armored vehicles and even flying machines! Now that’s impressive.

Consider how this quote relates to your leadership:

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

How are you making your leadership simple? Is your vision for your church or your organization simple? Or is it so complex that you find yourself continually having to clarify it to those you are leading?

Complex ideas aren’t necessarily better ideas. It actually requires genius and a lot of hard work to make complex concepts into simple ones. When you do that, your idea becomes scalable – which then can enlarge your leadership influence like none other.

Simplicity leads to scalability. Simplicity really is the ultimate sophistication.

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Tuesday’s Thought – Lincoln and Character

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Abraham Lincoln has no need for an introduction. So here’s a quote that probably has more relevance today than it did when he first said it.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

When given a seat of authority or power, do you find yourself leading and functioning differently?

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How to Create a Missional Culture at Your Church (BLESS Pocket Guide)

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How can you create a missional culture at your church?

The big challenge and task for churches that are serious about creating a missional culture and participating in the mission of God, is how to normalize mission and missional engagement in the lives of her congregants.

Do you inspire your church to action with a sermon? Do you equip your church with skills and knowledge with a seminar? Or do you employ an apprenticeship model? How is it that you can best call your church to significant city-impacting, gospel-driven and spirit-empowered missional engagement?

The answer?

You need to normalize it.

You need to make missional engagement as normal as motherhood and apple pie. Don’t make missional engagement sound like something that only missionaries are called to do. Make it natural and an assumption for every disciple. In other words, if you’re a disciple of Jesus, then missional engagement is just a part of it.

If your church is serious about the mission of God and multiplying, you need to normalize mission.

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I want to commend Community Christian Church for producing a fantastic acronym to normalize mission – it’s BLESS. You can find Dave Ferguson’s article and video on it here from Verge. You can also watch Jon Ferguson explaining it here.

Part of my role at Beulah Alliance Church was to lead the church and all the campuses in their missional engagement. And in order to raise the missional culture at Beulah, I needed to give the congregation a tool to normalize mission. Out of all the tools out there, we decided on BLESS because of its simplicity and its ability to make mission seem easy.

Read this article for 5 ways to create a #missional culture in your church

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So here are a few things that we did to create a missional culture:

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Tuesday’s Thought – Bill Hybels and Vision

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Bill Hybels is futurist and a visionary. I have incredible respect for this man and his leadership, influence, and kingdom vision. Here’s one of his stellar quotes from his talk at the 2014 Global Leadership Summit.

You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision

What vision are you pursuing?