Emotionally Healthy Hiring (Paid or Volunteer) Pt. 1

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Churches around the world are rebuilding in a post-pandemic world. Leaders are assembling new teams and desperately trying to fill vacant positions.

The temptation to cut corners in your hiring process (paid or volunteer) is ENORMOUS. When you feel the pressure to onboard a new worship leader or children's pastor in order to keep "the wheels on the bus", it's easy to make poor hiring decisions.

In today's podcast, I share 7 out of 13 principles that MUST be considered before your next hire. On the following podcast, I'll release part two of this series with the remaining principles.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Scuzaro.
0:08.0	What a welcome today, the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.
0:11.0	Very excited about today's topic.
0:14.0	It's called Emotionally Healthy Hiring, Paid, or Volunteer.
0:19.0	Emotionally Healthy Hiring, Paid, or Volunte or volunteer it is perhaps the most
0:24.2	difficult part of serving as a leader especially in a church setting but it also
0:30.8	applies of course to nonprofit leaders and marketplace leaders and I know for me
0:36.2	it's definitely was one of the most challenging parts of
0:40.7	my long history of pastoring and leading a church. And now, the reason we hire people,
0:46.1	or even empower a volunteer, is we want to multiply ourselves. We want to expand our influence.
0:51.9	We could just do it all ourselves. But again, part of leadership is
0:55.6	expanding and multiplying ourselves and our influence. So what happens often is we hire someone,
1:01.4	we put someone in a position, and we're all excited. We're overjoyed. We say, oh, what a breakthrough.
1:07.1	But then over time, we realize, hmm, this isn't working out. And then we find ourselves thinking, how am I going to end this?
1:15.6	Then that's often a long process, often very messy.
1:19.6	Rarely is it not messy.
1:21.6	And then after all the fallout of that, we have to start the process all over again. The temptation to cut corners
1:29.6	is enormous. And now what's interesting is churches are in a process of rebuilding as churches
1:36.5	are now gathering again around the world to meet together on weekends. And so people are
1:41.7	desperately building new teams and staffs. And folks are very afraid of falling behind because I don't get a new
1:48.0	whatever, children's pastor or youth pastor or whatever or leader,
1:52.0	as soon as possible, families or people might start leaving the church.
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