Inviting the right people into ministry, whether paid or volunteer, can be one of the toughest challenges leaders, ministry teams and search committees face. To help you address that challenge, the Position Insights Profile will identify the strengths needed and what the demands of any position are before the recruiting process starts. This establishes the strength-based job benchmark that candidates can be compared to using the Leading From Your Strengths Profile.
The Successful Staffing guide free download will guide you through a comprehensive 6-step process that incorporates the Position Insights and Leading From Your Strengths Profiles along with some of the other considerations that must be part of your overall staffing process. This powerful combination of the Positions Insights Profile, the Leading From Your Strengths Profile and the Successful Staffing process guide should be integrated as a key piece of inviting the right people into your ministry organization.
Four essential factors are at work in every position and every job candidate, whether paid or volunteer; and every position in ministry demands from a person a certain degree of each one of these factors. The Positions Insights Profile will identify what each position in your ministry will require from a person in that position in the following four areas:
Solving Problems
Influencing Others
Responding to the Pace of the Environment
Following Rules and Procedures
Some predictable issues and conflicts can be avoided if the recruiting team or leader assesses how much “strength” or intensity of each one of these factors is needed for a person to succeed in the job. After identifying these four issues required by the position, the Leading From Your Strengths Profile can then be used to compare a candidates strengths in those four areas.
Here is how Position Insights can help in the staffing process:
Build consensus for recruiting groups around the expectations for positions and candidates
Create a comprehensive report on the behavioral demands of a position
Gain insight into the unwritten expectations of each position
Reduce staff turnover by matching the position with the ideal candidate
Perfect for evaluating and filling any position
There are many uses for Position Insights. Here are a few examples of how to apply it:
Recruiting
Staffing
Conflict resolution
Performance review
New hire orientation
The Positions Insights Profile includes the following:
Graph of the behavioral profile of the position
Written summary of the position providing an overview of the strengths needed for the position
Success Insights Wheel
Detail pages of the requirements in the position for each of the four behavioral areas:
Problems and Challenges
People and Information
Pace and Change
Procedures and Rules
Video Tour: Overview of Profile and Guide
This short video help yo understand how to get the most out of the Staffing Guide and Position Insights Profile.
