Follow Up: Inviting Evaluation From Your Team (Part 2)
This is a follow up to my post about inviting my team to evaluate me. Here are some of their comments. (Just FYI, I’m not hiding any of the bad answers, but I am condensing some of the similar or repeated comments into one comment. I feel bad sharing the good stuff too, like I am bragging or something, but I guess to be fair I must. Honestly the evaluations were overwhelmingly positive, but I did slant this to get more negative feedback, because I was looking for self-improvement ideas.)
- What is my expertise? What do you sense I do well?
- Leadership/Team-building
- Business/church administration
- Networking /Connecting people/Internet presence
- Thinking strategically
- Communicating/Teaching (on Sundays)
- Transparency
- Kingdom-building
- Counseling
- What is my greatest weakness or what is an area in which I need improvement?
- Pace of life/Stress you assume/Being too busy
- Listening before you have the answer.
- Not interacting with the staff on a deeper level.
- Communication with the staff about upcoming plans and overall church business.
- What do you wish I did more of?
- Listening to feedback.
- Connecting people to our specific areas of ministry
- Helping come up with solutions to the problems you discover
- Invest in the staff/team-building
- Drink more diet Mountain Dew
- Enjoy the ride
- Giving more unsolicited feedback
- If you had my job, what would you do differently?
- Delegate more administrative duties
- Put the Blackberry down more
- Put as much emphasis on discipleship as on church growth
- Do you feel I have your best interest at heart?
- Yes
- Yes, but more than that you have Grace’s best interest at heart.
- 100% Yes/Another said 99% yes.
- I’m learning to trust more. (Went on to add they’d been hurt in previous employment relations.)
- Am I approachable?
- All but two said yes, absolutely yes, 100% yes.
- One said, “Not always, sometimes you are intimidating, especially to the female staff”
- One said, “Most of the time, but there are times you seem distracted, busy or uninterested.”
- What would you like to say to me, but you haven’t for whatever reason?
- Be careful with your Blackberry
- Don’t let past failures hold you back, they have shaped you and people see you as real.
- You are respected more than you know.
- I consider you a genuine friend.
- You have a tremendous heart for people, but you are often pulled in too many directions because of it.
- For us to continue to move forward you will need to delegate more.
- You help mentor and counsel so many people, but I wish you did those things more with your staff.
- I would like to see us as a staff spend more time in prayer.
Tomorrow I will share some of my comments to this feedback.
