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In a retained search, we conduct the national search for your candidate, thoroughly vet all top-level candidates, shepherd the entire interview process, and help you onboard the hired candidate successfully. The search fee is paid in monthly installments over the life of the search. A retained search includes a complete Discovery Assessment, the creation of an Opportunity Profile and regular, formal reporting to your team regarding our efforts.
As the veteran church staffing firm in existence, we’ve been expertly handling succession planning longer than anyone else. One thing that we know quite well is that a “one-size-fits-all” approach is simply not the way to go.
Because of this, we have designed our succession planning service to help your team understand all of what goes into developing a holistic succession planning strategy. Once you understand the areas that need to be accounted for, we help your team design a succession planning strategy that fits your specific context.
Ask one of our consultants about how we are able to assist with this important strategy.
We can provide consulting services to your search committee regarding best practices, help you design a healthy search process, and coach you through interviewing skills and techniques. We are happy to provide any information that will help your team operate in the most effective way possible.
Candidate Identification is only one part of a search process. Once you have interested candidates, you must evaluate them to determine their suitability for your position. We can help you with this critical part of the process. Using a third party, objective outsider to manage this process is a wise move that will leave the internal discernment part of the process with you. We will personally interview the candidates and provide written reports for your consideration along with thorough reference checks.
We are available to provide resources and coaching to staff members who need to be transitioned, no matter the circumstances. We will interview them as candidates, work with them in their job search process, assist with resume presentation, and provide interview coaching. We will offer feedback to them that will help them as they find another position.
Are you feeling stuck? Wondering what might be next for you? Navigating difficult relationships or situations?
Sometimes, it is helpful to talk with someone confidentially who is outside your immediate situation and can listen, ask good questions, hold space for you, and help you discover new ways to process and unlock your thinking. If you think you could benefit from individual coaching, please reach out to learn more.
At this time, we are not offering a Contingent Search option. This may change at some point in the future as we are working on an option that makes good sense for the churches that we serve as well as for our team of high-capacity consultants.
Our work with thousands of churches over the years has helped us develop the conviction that church health is one of the most important aspects related to recruiting and retaining exceptional staff. With that in mind, we’ve developed some additional areas of assistance that churches are finding extremely helpful. We would be happy to discuss any of these solutions for your church.
An important part of any successful pastoral search is answering the question “How healthy is our church?”
One successful way to answer this question is by using a church health assessments that has been designed to identify areas of strength as well as areas that may need attention before the next staff member is selected.
Our consultants are trained to help churches answer this question with intelligent research, hard data, and a plan for improvement. This process greatly enhances the overall search effort and allows us to help place candidates in the most healthy church environment possible.
Ask our consultants about our approach to church health assessments.
In some cases, it is wise for a church to enlist the help of an Intentional Interim Pastor before a full time pastor comes on board. This is especially true if a church has had a Senior Pastor with significant tenure or if there were unfortunate circumstances leading to the pastor’s departure.
The decision to secure an Intentional Interim Pastor usually provides a great deal of assurance to highly qualified pastoral candidates that are considering their next ministry step.
Ask our consultants about our strategy of identifying and deploying an Intentional Pastor for your church.
Large churches often require dedicated staff members to be in charge of finances, Human Resources and executive level administration.
Many churches can actually save on the expenses related to full or even part time staff by outsourcing church management activities and have them handled by experienced and reliable industry experts.
Shepherd Staff is on the cutting edge of the growing trend to outsource these kinds of tasks and can help you realize significant savings by doing so.
Use the button above to set up a free consultation with one of our consultants to discuss how you can get this started at your church.