When building a team, what talents should you look for?
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Leadership Straight from Bill Hybels
When building a team,
what talents should you look for?
Choosing talent. Talent matters as you recognize.
Whenever you are choosing high-level staff,
there are risks involved.
You know from my writings and lectures
I look for people with character, competency, chemistry,
that fit our culture, that are called by God.
The 5 "C's," I run through that grid consistently.
Some of you who are veterans in leadership,
you know that with an airtight screening process
you do not know what you have with a new staff member
until they have been on the job for about 2 years.
Then you know what you have.
I have been upwardly surprised.
I have been downwardly surprised.
I have been, "Oh, that is about what I thought."
But you really do not know.
All your screening, interviewing, and testing...
all of these things give you clues and your intuition.
All of these things matter.
You have to make a choice
at a certain point in time.
Hopefully throughout your career
your processes get better
for choosing the right talent
for the right era.
I am the first one to say that I have made
a series of brilliant choices.
I have made some choices
that wound up being heart breaking.
But nobody gets it all right.
I do not beat myself up
for the rest of my life
for realizing I made a choice
that did not work out.
I say, "D a r n, that did not work out.
I was sure it was going to work out."
But I do not live with a bad situation forever.
As soon as you find someone
you are pretty sure will not work out,
bless that individual, yourself,
your organization, their family.
Move them on.
We give extraordinarily gracious severance packages
when we hire someone wrongly
and we have to move them on.
We say, "We thought it was going to work out.
You did. You moved your family.
It is heart breaking. We are so sorry.
We are going to let you go."
We complete a long careful process.
But when we get to the end
if we feel we had to own quite a bit of it
I am glad you do not know how generous
some of our severance packages have been
because we say, "It is our fault. We missed it.
We are going to give you a long time of support
so you can find the next job
and hopefully you can be at a church
where you fit better.
I used to be resentful
about gracious severance packages.
I have had a total conversion.
I think it is one of the most
gracious things you can do
is to take the full responsibility
and be ridiculously generous
and that person will go out and tell a wonderful story
about you and your church for the rest of their life.
Every time you send someone out without being gracious,
they will tell a horrible story about you and your church
the rest of their life to everyone who will listen.
So, why not build the Kingdom.
At the end of the day,
it is only "x" amount of dollars.
You are going to raise
"x" amount of dollars anyway.
Be gracious if you make a mistake.