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
617 episodes
The Communications Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight
This episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, hosted by Todd Rhoades, addresses the critical topic of communication within church teams. Rhoades highlights how poor communication can cripple staff effectiveness and lead to misaligned prioritie...
The Strategy Meeting Where Nothing Gets Decided
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the common issue in strategic planning meetings where much is discussed but little is decided. Referred to as 'discussion theater,' these meetings often fail due to confus...
The Competency Trap That's Limiting Your Team
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the common hiring mistake of prioritizing current experience over future growth potential. He emphasizes the importance of hiring candidates who can adapt and grow with th...
The Human Touch (Part 5): Leading with Emotional Intelligence When Everything Else Is Digital
In this episode of the 'Leadership in the Digital Age' podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the challenges church leaders face in the digital communication era, especially when it comes to discerning emotional cues and maintaining team chemistry des...
The Human Touch (Part 4): Creative Problem-Solving That AI Can't Touch
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the potential pitfalls of relying too heavily on AI, templates, and external solutions for ministry challenges. Emphasizing the unique nature of each church community, ...
The Human Touch (Part 3): Building Real Relationships in an Automated World
The episode of the 'Healthy Church Staff Podcast' discusses the over-reliance on technology and automation in church operations, which leads to efficient communication but weakens personal relationships within church teams. The hosts emphasize ...
The Human Touch (Part 2): The Art of Spiritual Discernment When AI Has All the Data
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the balance between data-driven decisions and spiritual discernment in church management. With the growth of AI and data analytics, there's a temptation to rely solely ...
The Human Touch (Part 1): Why Your Presence Still Matters More Than Your Productivity
This episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, hosted by Todd Rhoades, discusses the integration of AI in church settings, emphasizing the importance of human presence in ministry. Despite the efficiency AI offers in tasks like sermon prepar...
The Performance Review Revolution: When Reviews Reveal Deeper Culture Problems
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the pitfalls many leaders face during performance reviews. He highlights the importance of introspection and suggests that consistent performance issues across sta...
The Performance Review Revolution: Linking Performance to Spiritual Formation
This episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast focuses on transforming church staff performance reviews from business-like evaluations into meaningful discipleship conversations. Todd Rhoades discusses the importance of integrating spiritual ...
The Performance Review Revolution: The Art of Growth-Focused Feedback
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades addresses the common pitfalls of church staff performance reviews. He highlights the tendency to either avoid necessary hard conversations or to be overly critical, which can dam...
The Performance Review Revolution: Building Ministry-Specific Evaluation Criteria
This podcast episode discusses how churches can create evaluation standards that genuinely reflect ministry values rather than adopting business-like metrics that may not capture the essence of spiritual and pastoral work. Todd Rhoades emphasiz...
The Performance Review Revolution: Why Corporate Models Don't Work in Ministry
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the ineffectiveness of traditional corporate performance reviews in church settings and offers a new approach to ministry evaluation that aligns better with the mission...
Pastoring People Who Don't Trust Each Other
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the impact of current societal and political divisions on church communities. The central theme is the erosion of trust within churches, paralleling trust issues in broade...
Safe Doesn't Mean Soft
The podcast episode discusses the concept of a 'safe church' and what it truly means beyond just comfort. Todd Rhoades explores how churches should aim to focus on core values like trust and inclusion rather than aligning strictly with a political...
The Pulpit Is Not a Cable News Desk
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the challenges of addressing current events from the pulpit. He urges church leaders to focus on the gospel rather than chasing the latest news stories, emphasizing the im...
Your Church Is More Politically Mixed Than You Think
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the political and cultural diversity within churches, highlighting the disparity between pastors' assumptions and the reality of their congregations' beliefs. He emphasize...
When the Violence Comes Inside
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses how church leaders should navigate the aftermath of significant societal events, such as the recent incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Rhoades emp...
The Volunteer Ceiling_ When Unpaid Leaders Outperform Paid Staff
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, host Todd Rhoades explores the complex dynamics that arise when passionate volunteers outperform paid staff in church environments. He discusses the potential issues this can create, including t...
When the Church Falls... And Rises Again: What Redemptive Rebuilding Actually Looks Like
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses how churches can rise again after experiencing leadership or organizational crises by undertaking the difficult and honest process of rebuilding. Key steps include embr...
The Permission Problem: When Staff Wait for Authorization They Already Have
This episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, hosted by Todd Rhoades, addresses the issue of unclear decision-making authority within church staff, which hampers productivity and fosters frustration. Todd provides strategies for defining cl...
The Empathy Burnout: When Caring Too Much Becomes Your Ministry Kryptonite
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades addresses the challenge of empathy burnout among church staff. He emphasizes the importance of establishing boundaries to protect emotional well-being while maintaining the abili...
The Skills Expiration Date: When Your Team's Expertise Becomes Obsolete
In this episode, Todd Rhoades discusses the importance of updating long-term staff skills to maintain effectiveness and avoid becoming outdated. By fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development, leaders can support sta...
The Ministry Identity Crisis: When Your Role Changes But Your Heart Doesn't
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the shift in ministry roles towards more administrative tasks over the years and the impact on church staff members' spiritual and vocational calls. He reflects on the ...
Why Your Best Staff Member Just Applied for Another Job
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the importance of recognizing and addressing the aspirations of high-performing staff members to prevent them from seeking opportunities elsewhere. High performers often l...