It can be challenging for staff to share inner thoughts with leadership. Some staff fear they may lose their jobs. Others consider they may not get a raise again. This makes it hard to get ideas about culture, compensation and challenges. XPastor consultant, Mike Gould, conducts interviews with staff to get their perspectives on selected issues at your church.

• Pulse of Your Staff is a one-on-one dialogue with four to seven of your staff. Through well-crafted and open-ended questions, people give a pulse reading.
• Pulse of Your Staff gives leadership an awareness of issues, an objective sense of the culture of the church, and a view on how the staff see themselves.
• Pulse of Your Staff has two options. Choose to get the results anonymously or with staff names. This must be decided before the staff discussions so that staff will know what will or will not be cited.

The process creates a safe place for staff to share their perspective, one that they may not always share directly with church leadership. Mike Gould, as XPastor’s Director of Connections and a Leadership Consultant has a four-fold process:

1. Mike conducts in-depth dialogues with the staff members that you choose.
2. He discusses the findings with Fletch for input
3. A three to five page synthesis is prepared, detailing your pulse
4. Mike debriefs the results with your leadership.