{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Executive Pastor Podcast","title":"How to Decide Your Next Staff Hire","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":794,"description":"Your church needs another hire. But which one? Get it wrong, and the cost is more than money. It is strategic. In this episode, Doug Parks sits down with Erin Johnston, Executive Pastor at Canyon Ridge Christian Church in Las Vegas, to walk through how to decide your next staff hire using strategy, capacity, and your org chart instead of the loudest voice in the room.\nYou will learn:\n- Why you should build a three- to five-year org chart before you write a single job description\n- How to avoid \"whack-a-mole\" hires that solve today's pain point and make tomorrow miserable\n- How to tell if you have a missing role or just an overloaded one, using a simple two-week time matrix\n- How to audit functions and ask whether a volunteer team could do the work\n- How to sequence hires as you scale, and why developers of people beat specialists\n- Why a staff-to-attendance ratio around 1 to 100 should drive hiring decisions with data, not emotion\n- What \"leadership weight\" is and how to add capacity instead of one more doer\nThis week's action step: sketch your three- to five-year org chart, even as a rough draft, and let it guide your next hiring conversation.\nTIMELINE\n0:00 Cold open\n0:16 Welcome and meet Erin Johnston\n1:11 Why the next hire is so hard to get right\n2:59 Start with the future org chart, not the job description\n4:14 Avoiding whack-a-mole hires\n5:44 Is it a missing role or an overloaded role?\n7:12 The time matrix tool\n7:51 Audit the functions and use volunteers\n8:25 How to sequence hires as you scale\n9:52 Staff-to-attendance ratios and data-driven triggers\n11:12 Leadership weight and multiplying capacity\n12:12 Recap and your action step this week\n12:56 Next episode and wrap up\nCOMING NEXT: Episode 11, how to have the hard conversation with an underperformer.\nMore episodes and resources at https://executivepastor.io\nThe Executive Pastor Podcast is hosted by Doug Parks and Bart Rendel and brought to you by Intentional Churches. Subscribe so you do not miss a new...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/hmoldqtpv6NRZ5YiVX6JHu4bcWf7ZocQ7jPe1h0Y_8I/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80ODIx/NmI1MDVkNTllMjYx/ZTU0MzljNzI5YmJl/NzBjZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}