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
632 episodes
The Innovation Graveyard_ Why Your Great Ideas Keep Dying at the Same Spot
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the systemic barriers in churches that stifle innovation and offers strategies to overcome them. • Churches often have an invisible system that stifles innovation, not du...
Why Your Church Staff Needs a Failure Resume
This episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, hosted by Todd Rhoades, discusses the importance of embracing failure to foster innovation and growth within church staff cultures. By normalizing failure, teams can learn effectively and create a ...
The Monday Morning Dread: When the Weekend Ministry Success Doesn't Feel Great on Monday Morning
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, co-host Todd Rhoades addresses the 'success trap' ministers often face: the disconnection between ministry success and personal job fulfillment. He discusses the emotional discrepancy from th...
When Your Elder Board Micromanages Your Ministry Staff
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the challenges of micromanagement by church boards and provides strategies for establishing healthy boundaries between church staff and boards. He emphasizes the impo...
Why Your Worship Pastor and Senior Pastor Keep Clashing
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the common issue of communication gaps between creative and strategic church staff members. He emphasizes the importance of understanding different brain types—creative ve...
When Your Church Staff Becomes a Revolving Door
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the issue of high staff turnover in churches and how it is not just a matter of bad luck. He explores the hidden costs of turnover and provides actionable strategies to bu...
Crisis Mode Is Not a Leadership Strategy
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the pitfalls of living in crisis mode as a leader and offers strategies for healthier leadership. He differentiates between urgent and important tasks, emphasizing th...
The Benefits Package Your Church Can't Afford Not to Offer
In this episode, Todd Rhoades discusses creative, low-cost benefits that churches can offer to attract and retain staff without matching corporate salaries. He emphasizes the importance of investing in staff through professional development, menta...
The Generational Handoff: When Your Church Has Too Many Chiefs and Not Enough Indians
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, the host discusses the challenges of unclear authority within church leadership and the impact it has on staff. The episode emphasizes the need for clear delineation of roles and authority to...
Ministry FOMO: When Other Churches' Success Makes You Question Your Calling
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades addresses the challenges of comparing one's church ministry to others, particularly via social media. Highlighting the dangers of 'FOMO' (Fear of Missing Out), he discusses how t...
The Permission to Plateau: When Good Enough Is Actually Good
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the pressures of achieving church growth metrics and the importance of valuing stability and depth over numerical goals. He emphasizes that maintaining a healthy, stabl...
The Sacred No: When Saying No to Good Things Becomes a Ministry Skill
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the concept of opportunity costs in church leadership. The focus is on the pressure to say 'yes' to every opportunity, even when it aligns with values, leading to missi...
The Art of the Ministry Pivot: When Your Role Evolves Faster Than Your Job Description
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the evolving nature of church ministry roles, highlighting how responsibilities often expand beyond initial job descriptions. Employees might inadvertently become overw...
The Unofficial Therapist Problem: When Everyone Expects You to Fix Their Problems
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the critical importance of setting boundaries for ministry staff, particularly when it comes to handling personal crises within their congregation. Todd explains how pa...
The Part-Time, Full-Time Expectation Problem
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades addresses the common issue of part-time church staff being given full-time responsibilities. He highlights the disconnect between paid hours and actual work expectations and su...
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 ...