Creating an employee-focused culture of care, celebration, and fun will lead to communicating that organizations want their employees to thrive. It’s imperative that we value our team members beyond their job function, and for us to create an environment that positively contributes to their holistic health. When employees experience the combination of loving what they do AND where they do it, they often have longer tenures and will aggressively recruit other highly-talented connections to join your team.
If you don’t care for your teams enough to ensure they experience this reality, don’t be surprised when they leave for an organization that does.
Better Together: The team outperforms the individual, every time.
Across the history of sports, certain players have radically changed a game’s trajectory as soon as they entered the playing field. But regardless of how many times they “put the team on their back” on the way toward a victory, those players wouldn’t have been successful playing solo against their opponents.
The success of our churches is no different. Some organizations are centered around the skills and personality of a central figure. But, there are many people working behind the scenes that create the platform the primary leader can stand on. It takes a wide range of talent and gifting to produce opportunities, environments, and methods in which people connect to the organization. Churches that are growing in their reach celebrate the impact of each team member and leverage the unique gifts, passions, and experiences that an employee brings to the table.
If, as leaders, we regularly find ourselves exhausted or crippled by the amount of pressure we feel to carry the organization, it’s likely time to lean into the team we have been entrusted with to more efficiently advance the mission of our organization.
This article originally appeared here.
