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You and your team can work smarter, not harder, by improving skills and knowledge with the training and development options discussed in this episode.
Evaluating your team's performance at the end of the year or at the end of a program can point out where your team shines and where they need development. This episode suggests two ways to evaluate your team depending on whether the team is on staff or volunteers.
After you’ve discussed the behaviour and results you expect to see from your team members, you can start giving them ongoing feedback. Praising your team for their successes and helping them develop when they aren’t doing so well will keep them motivated to reach their goals.
Before you can evaluate the members of your team, you need to let them know what they’re being evaluated on! We’ll tell you how to write job descriptions for the roles in your organization that you can use to evaluate the behaviour and results of your team.
Leaders need to hear from others. Find out how to get feedback from your team, from other leaders, and the Lord to improve your leadership.
Leaders need to take the time to regularly self-reflect. Here are some ideas for the types of things to ask yourself and suggestions for how to set up your reflection time.
What is performance management? Whose performance are we managing? What are some of the outcomes of good performance management? Find out here!
Hear some insights from a business owner with pastoral training! My father, Russell, will discuss how his pastoral training helped him lead an organization and what knowledge and skills he was missing. He also explains how management knowledge makes leading an organization easier and gives his best advice to leaders.
It’s time to put your strategy map into action by setting targets for each of your objectives, choosing the key actions you’ll measure to be sure to reach your target, and creating the initiatives to take your organization to the next level!
Connect the learning and growth of your staff and volunteers with your strategic objectives to give them a solid foundation of people power!
Your internal processes are the foundation for the objectives you’ve set for your beneficiary/stakeholder and stewardship perspectives of the strategy map. Here are some tips to make sure you have the right ones in place.
Learn how to motivate your team with from the outside with extrinsic rewards and from within with intrinsic rewards.