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.