Staffing Systems — From the Vault

Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast

Andy Stanley

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this episode from 2015, Andy Stanley and Lane Jones unpack three essential principles that can transform your staffing approach and unlock your organization’s full potential. Whether you're building a team from scratch or refining your hiring process, you'll learn how to create a hiring system that helps your organization thrive.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help leaders go further faster.
0:08.4	On today's podcast, we'll talk about creating a staffing system that will liberate your organization.
0:14.5	Andy, I'm really excited about today's topic because we're going to look at three principles that can help ensure that we not only hire the right
0:21.0	people, but that we set them up for maximum impact. And I don't think there's a more important
0:25.6	asset that leaders manage than the people in their organization. Yeah, in fact, when we wrote our
0:30.8	constitution, our basically a legal document for our organization, the very first thing we put in there
0:36.5	was simply that the people we use are as important as the systems we choose. The very first thing we put in there was simply that the people we
0:38.3	use are as important as the systems we choose. The people we use are as important as the systems we
0:44.0	choose. And people we use, obviously we don't use people. But the people we select, I just wanted it to
0:48.6	rhyme. So that's why we said you. So the people we use or select are as important as the systems we
0:54.0	choose. And the reason we put that up front as important as the systems we choose.
0:54.8	And the reason we put that up front is regardless of how well written our legal documents are, our mission, vision, purpose, all those wonderful things.
1:03.2	If you don't have great people, great things aren't going to happen.
1:05.3	At the same time, we've both seen organizations that aren't that well organized, departments or divisions, or even
1:12.2	entire, in our case, churches, who they don't have extraordinary organization, but they have
1:16.3	extraordinary people. And, you know, everybody listening knows this. If you have extraordinary
1:20.5	people, extraordinary things happen because they either work through a great organization, or
1:26.2	they will find a way to work around a not-so-great
1:28.9	organization in order to get great things done. So obviously on the organizational side and
1:33.8	structure side, it's super important. But finding and engaging great people, that really is the
1:40.0	make or break, really for any organization. And the reason we've chosen to talk about that is
1:44.0	because unfortunately some organizations actually have systems that prevent them from hiring
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