
The Healthy Church Staff Podcast
We're all about helping create a healthy, positive, and spiritually positive environment for church staff members and leadership teams.
Episodes
439 episodes
Hiring for Potential, Not Perfection
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses why churches should consider hiring staff based on potential rather than perfection. The episode covers key points about shifting the hiring mindset, identifying pote...
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Episode 438
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8:13

What Your Hiring Metrics Are Telling You (That You're Ignoring)
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the importance of tracking specific hiring metrics to improve church hiring processes. He emphasizes the need for churches to pay attention to key metrics such as time to ...
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Episode 437
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7:12

The Quiet Staff Member Who’s Already Halfway Out the Door
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the subtle signs of disengagement among church staff members and how to address them before it's too late. He emphasizes the phenomenon of 'quiet quitting' where staf...
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Episode 436
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5:11

You Fired the Wrong Person
Have you ever made a staffing change that was supposed to solve everything, only to discover weeks later that nothing improved? That sinking feeling might be a sign you've addressed a symptom rather than the root cause.When terminations...
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Episode 435
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7:54

When the Trust Falls Apart
Trust erodes silently in church staff teams through small, consistent breaches like withholding information, avoiding hard conversations, and inconsistent leadership. When trust breaks down, staff members disengage, play defense, and create a c...
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Episode 433
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8:01

The Leadership Culture Your Staff Can’t Thrive In
Church culture is defined by how your team experiences leadership every day, not just through perks or events, and toxic leadership environments can slowly push away great staff members despite their calling.• Constant urgency where eve...
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Season 1
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Episode 432
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6:51

The Candidate You Let Get Away
When great candidates disappear from your church's hiring process, it's rarely about salary or location. Top-tier ministry candidates evaluate your church's communication, vision clarity, and culture before deciding whether to continue pursuing...
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Season 1
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Episode 141
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7:02

Silent Alarm: Stop Trying to Rebuild Alone
Todd Rhodes concludes the Silent Alarm series with a crucial message about the danger of trying to rebuild church staff pipelines alone. The most resilient churches recognize that rebuilding ministry is too important and complex to be carried s...
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Season 1
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Episode 430
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7:00

Silent Alarm: The Interim is Not a Pause Button
The interim period between church staff members isn't just dead space to endure—it's a strategic inflection point that shapes your church's future. Todd Rhodes explains how this critical time either heals what's broken or hides it deeper, with ...
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Season 1
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Episode 429
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8:59

Silent Alarm: The 1997 Church Isn't Coming Back
The church of 1997 isn't coming back, and that's actually good news for ministry leaders willing to adapt their staffing approach. Many churches are still hiring for positions that made sense decades ago, using outdated strategies, and wonderin...
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Season 1
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Episode 428
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8:45

Silent Alarm: The Quiet Quitters of Ministry
We're exploring why promising ministry leaders are quietly leaving church jobs without returning to ministry elsewhere, examining this growing trend that's draining the church leadership pipeline. This "invisible exodus" includes gifted mid-car...
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Season 1
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Episode 427
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10:19

Silent Alarm: We Don't Have a Hiring Problem - We Have a Discipleship Problem
Your staffing problem isn't really about hiring—it's about discipleship. Most churches have shifted from raising up leaders internally to importing candidates, creating a leadership development vacuum that threatens the future of ministry.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 426
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10:28

Silent Alarm: Why Even 'Healthy' Churches are Struggling to Hire
Even healthy churches with solid theology and stable leadership are struggling to fill open staff positions due to fundamental shifts in the ministry landscape. The talent pool of potential church staff has shrunk dramatically, creating intense...
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Season 1
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Episode 425
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9:39

Silent Alarm: The Myth of 'Just Find the Unicorn'
We tackle a harmful church hiring myth: the fantasy of finding the "unicorn" or perfect candidate with impossible qualifications at a modest salary. While churches wait for this mythical person, positions remain open, current staff get overload...
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Season 1
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Episode 424
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8:13

Silent Alarm: The Pain You Don't See on Resumes
Ministry staff are carrying unprecedented emotional weight from difficult experiences, and hiring churches must learn to address the pain behind every resume to build healthy teams.• The last five to six years have been incredibly diffi...
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Season 1
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Episode 423
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7:20

Silent Alarm: The Disappearance of Mid-Career Leaders
We're facing a growing crisis in church staffing—the quiet disappearance of mid-career ministry leaders who should be stepping into senior leadership and mentoring younger staff. This exodus creates a dangerous vacuum where churches lose experi...
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Season 1
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Episode 422
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8:11

Silent Alarm: The Pipeline is Quietly Breaking
The church staff pipeline in the US is quietly cracking beneath us, systematically changing in ways that threaten our future leadership. This episode introduces Todd Rhodes' new book "Silent Alarm" which addresses the diminishing flow of qualif...
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Season 1
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Episode 421
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8:22

The Courage to Lead When It's Easier to Coast
The most dangerous season in leadership might be when everything feels fine, leading to comfortable coasting rather than courageous direction. Leadership fatigue often comes not from crisis moments but from the slow, steady grind of keeping eve...
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Season 1
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Episode 420
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7:28

How to Know if Your Church is Scaring Candidates Off
We explore why promising candidates often disappear during the church hiring process and how to stop unintentionally scaring away top talent. Your hiring process communicates volumes about your church culture, and candidates assume how you hire...
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Season 1
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Episode 419
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9:28

You're Not Burned Out. You're Bored.
Ministry leaders often confuse burnout with boredom, but these conditions require completely different solutions. Recognizing the difference can help you take the right steps to reignite your passion and purpose in ministry.• Burnout is...
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Season 1
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Episode 418
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7:13

The Staff Meeting You Should Probably Kill
Not every meeting adds value, and some are actively damaging your church staff's energy, creativity, and morale. We examine which staff meetings you should eliminate and what to replace them with to boost team productivity and happiness.
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Season 1
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Episode 417
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7:22

The Ministry Unicorn Myth
Many churches waste time searching for perfect ministry candidates that don't exist. This unrealistic quest for a "ministry unicorn" leads to extended vacancies, team burnout, and missed opportunities to hire promising leaders with potential to...
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Season 1
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Episode 416
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7:48

Why You Shouldn't Be the Smartest Person in Your Staff Meeting
Pastors who need to be the smartest person in the room unintentionally silence their team and hinder collaboration, eventually causing creative staff members to leave or stop contributing.• Insecurity often drives leaders' need to have ...
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Season 1
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Episode 415
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7:38

What Ministry Leaders Can Learn from Emergency Room Nurses
Ministry today resembles an ER room more than a boardroom, requiring church leaders to adopt skills similar to emergency medical professionals to navigate chaos effectively while preventing burnout.• Learning proper triage - treating th...
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Season 1
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Episode 414
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6:50
