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Spend 90% of Your Time With Your Best People

  [Blog]
02/26/2010
By Admin, Admin

Spend 90% of your time with your best people.
 
Over the past 15 years, I've learned some basic truths in regard to developing an outstanding team. Two of our assignments at RMCM is to empower and equip children's ministry workers and church leaders. I believe the information in this week's blog will help you understand the importance of spending 90% of your time with your best people.
 
The top 10-20% of the individuals deliver 70-80% of the results. Spend 60% of your mentoring and personal ministry time with your top producers in ministry. Spend 30% of your mentoring and personal ministry time with your high potential people. Spend 10% of your mentoring and personal ministry time with the low performers. This means if you are going to invest forty hours in one month training, coaching, planning, working and encouraging your team, then twenty-four hours are invested with the top producers in ministry, twelve hours with the future leaders, and four hours with the low performers.
 
The great leaders in children's ministry understands this math. Too many leaders do not. Too many leaders are attracted to the problematical team members as moths to the flame. Too many leaders invest too much time with low-performing team members who deliver a low return on the time invested in them. Too many leaders under-invest in their best-performing people on the team.
 
It is a myth that the top producer in ministry wants to be left alone. The best performer may be independent may be an individual, may like to do it his or her way, but the top performer wants the great leader in on the action. The best performer will sell the leader on getting something done in ministry or will learn from the leader or will encourage the leader in making things happen. The best performer may perform at an even higher level. The great leader observes the way of the best performer and tries to encourage others to reach their highest potential.
 
The four hours invested in the low performers is spent observing, questioning, listening, training, and looking for a spark or a relevant talent. If after training, coaching and a reasonably fair amount of time, if the low performer does not improve, the great leader releases fast, making room for potential top producers, individuals who are more in tuned with God, connected with the vision and are personally ready to do what is necessary to improve their skills and bring their talents up so that we can get the most out of what we have with the time we have ministering to boys and girls.

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