Episode 578: The Importance of Feedback and Evaluation

In Episode 578 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss the role of performance reviews in a post-COVID church.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

  • Why performance reviews are looked at in a negative light
  • Why performance reviews are an important part of leadership development

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

  • “Performance reviews, historically, have been that annual or biannual opportunity formally where a supervisor and supervisee sit down and talk about things are going.” – @danielsangi
  • “Performance reviews are part of a development strategy.” – @toddadkins
  • “You owe them, the ministry, and the Lord to do an occasional check-in to make sure everybody knows where we are going, where they fit in, how they are doing, what they are doing awesome at, and where they could grow a little bit.” – @toddadkins
  • “Regardless of what you call it, regardless of the frequency at which you do it, it’s about leadership development.” – @danielsangi
  • “The thing that separates the best leaders from the rest is the emphasis around leadership development.” – @danielsangi
  • “If there is a major issue, you should find out about that during the course of your regular meeting time or if it was a real crisis it should be addressed in the moment, not in a performance review.” – @toddadkins
  • “Performance reviews are not weapons, but they are all about development.” – @danielssangi

Help us Multiply the Mission:

  • Please subscribe
  • Leave a rating and review on iTunes
  • Ask a question by clicking Send Voicemail on the right hand side of NewChurches.com
  • If you’re on a phone or a tablet, then go to www.speakpipe.com/newchurches to download the app and record your message
  • When you’re recording, introduce yourself and your context in about 15 seconds and then record your question for 30 seconds

Published March 22, 2021

P.S. Get our best content in your inbox

We send one email per week chock full of articles from a variety of Church Planting voices.