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Best Person to Do Staff Evaluations?

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Typically ministry leaders do the staff evaluations from start to finish for those in their sphere of influence. Yet, they may not always be the best persons for the task, or at least for some phases of the process.

The Best Person to Do Staff Evaluations Based on Spiritual Gifting

Staff evaluations happen in at least three phases — evaluating, consulting, and record keeping. Each of these phases pull on different skills and hence, varying spiritual gifts:

Evaluation Phase: spiritual gifts of discernment or wisdom

Consultation Phase: spiritual gifts of exhortation or pastor

Administrative, or Record-Keeping Phase: spiritual gifts of helps or service

Ministry Handbook for Spiritual Gifts in Use
The Ministry Handbook: Spiritual Gifts in Use explains why these gifts may best suit the different phases. In addition to record-keeping, this handbook suggests spiritual gifts most useful to 26 other specific tasks a ministry leader must either do or oversee, as well as gifting for 16 broad ministry areas.

The Leader May Not be the Best Person

Few leaders have all of the above mentioned gifts. As a result, they may shy away from doing evaluations. Or, they may focus in on the phase for which they are best equipped. When they do that, the full benefit of doing evaluations may not be realized.

Getting other people involved in helping with different phases can be problematic due to the confidential, sometimes sensitive nature of evaluations. So, what’s a leader to do? — That will be the topic of another post.

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