Churches often wait to evaluate their leadership until something goes wrong. But proactive church leadership evaluation is actually a key ingredient for a healthy church!

Join us for episode 10 as we discuss how to – and how not to – evaluate your church leadership.

Check out our summary for this episode here.

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In this episode:

00:00 - Introduction

01:00 - This episode’s special guests

02:00 - Today’s topic: evaluating church leadership

05:40 - Why is evaluation helpful?

07:43 - What happens when an organization doesn't evaluate itself?

11:00 - The importance of self-evaluation

12:50 - How does a board avoid catching the pastor off-guard with negative feedback?

19:08 - Do boards understand their role?

22:20 - What does a good pastoral evaluation look like?

27:45 - Questions to ask in a pastoral evaluation

30:30 - Advice for pastoral evaluations

35:00 - Tools and resources for evaluations

39:00 - Final thoughts

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Tools and Resources:

We asked our guests for their best resources for evaluating church leadership. Here are the books they said were most helpful to them in this process:

It by Craig Groeschel

High Impact Church Boards by T.J. Addington

Deep and Wide by Andy Stanley

At Your Best by Carey Nieuwhof
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell