Top 33 Victories Part 4

#4 - We made training a priority

One of the things we have done well is make training a priority on our staff.  I buy books for our staff to read and even give office time to read them. We discuss what we are reading and talk about the ideas they give us. I do a training session with our staff every month discussing
different areas of ministry. We also go to conferences that we feel will help us be more effective.  Before I went into ministry, I had a boss that was serious about traning.  We asked him about it and talked to him about the fact that a person or company could spend lots of dollars training someone, only to have them leave.  His response was amazing.  He said, ¨It´s true that if you do train they might leave.  But what´s worse, having them trained and they leave or having them not trained and they stay?¨  Point taken...

Comments

[Jesse J. Anderson]

Thanks for this 'series' I'm very much enjoying it... it's so helpful to see through the eyes of someone who's been through something that you're about to jump into!

One thing along the lines of this that our church United Foursquare is planning on being dedicated to is having 'apprentices' in many positions... so we will (in theory) always have people training and learning the different positions in our church. Hopefully, this will allow us to give the "key people" breaks every once in a while =)

(and by "key people" I'm referring to those individuals who end up doing so much that they're afraid to be away lest everything fall apart without them to run it)