On the Monday Morning Church Podcast, Neil Miller interview Fletch. From Fletch’s experience of being without a Senior Pastor for twenty months, he describes ten steps for a successful Senior Pastor transition. There are various aspects of being an XP during an SP transition. It takes an entire team of leaders and staff to successfully walk through such a transition.
The ten steps that Fletch talks through are:
- Mourn the loss
- Normalize great ministry and continue on
- Examine your constitution
- Use Harvard’s Question Zero
- Get some professionals involved
- Write a killer and detailed Opportunity Profile
- Establish your Search Team
- Celebrate generosity and great ministry along the way
- Find the candidate and superbly communicate the process, the people, him and his vision, his background and his family
- Have him speak and follow your constitutional approval process
