{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Executive Pastor Podcast","title":"How to Decide: Volunteer or Paid Staff for This Role?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":770,"description":"Volunteer or paid staff? Every staff request sounds urgent, and the pressure to just hire someone never lets up. In this episode, Doug Parks and Erin Johnston, Executive Pastor at Canyon Ridge Christian Church, walk through how to decide whether a role should be filled by a volunteer team or a paid hire.\nYou will hear how to pilot a role with volunteers before you commit to a salary, why the Executive Pastor has to hold the line on every believer owning the Great Commission, and how a little forensic analysis can show you where assumptions and perfectionism are driving the hiring decision.\nIn this episode:\n- Why staff requests bring constant tension, and how to respond\n- How to run a pilot with a volunteer team, with a debrief every week\n- How a pilot can change the job description you eventually write\n- Holding the line on the priesthood of all believers\n- Why staff can take up all the oxygen\n- Forensic analysis: where did this need come from, and where are we assuming excellence matters most?\n- Why the XP's job includes disappointing people at a rate they can tolerate\nYour next step this week: look at your staff and pick one place to pilot something with volunteers.\nMore episodes and resources: https://executivepastor.io\nEpisode page: https://executivepastor.io/episodes/12-how-to-decide-volunteer-or-paid-staff-for-this-role\nNext episode: How to Handle Staff Conflict Without Picking Sides\nTimeline\n0:00 Cold open\n0:17 Welcome and baseball banter\n0:50 Today's topic: volunteer or paid staff for this role\n1:14 Why hiring requests bring constant tension\n1:40 Point 1: Pilot before you hire\n1:52 How to pilot with a volunteer team\n3:30 What a pilot teaches you about the job description\n5:08 Point 2: Hold the line on Great Commission ownership\n6:20 The priesthood of all believers\n7:45 Why staff can take up all the oxygen\n8:30 Point 3: Forensic analysis of the need\n9:32 Where are we assuming excellence matters most?\n10:43 Disappointing people at a rate they can tolerate...","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}