70-20-10 Work Week

Three Areas of Work Week Allocation:

Focus on activities that move the needle on job description responsibilities
This is a stewardship and worship issue - working as unto the Lord
Many staff members cannot clearly articulate the practical activities needed to accomplish their job descriptions

John Maxwell's Rule of Five:

Identify five specific activities to do every day (or every week) to accomplish your vision/job description.
- Metaphor: Swinging an ax at a tree five times daily - eventually the tree will fall
Must be everyday (or every week) activities that you can evaluate at week's end to see if they have been accomplished

PC’s personal rule of five example:
- Spend Time with God
- Study God's Word
- Love Those Closest to You
- Make a Difference in Someone’s Life
- Take Care of Yourself
Work rule of five example (for chancellor): clarify vision daily, recruit for enrollment, etc.
Staff must have buy-in. They write their five to begin with, and then direct reports modify and improve them
Current initiative: All Church of the Highlands employees are writing their five most important weekly activities
- They are submitting and workshopping them with their direct reports over the next few months, and will have their final rules of 5 to be discussed at our All Team Retreat in May.

Find irritants or things making the experience difficult/ineffective
Collaborate with your team to innovate solutions
- Innovation is not invention - it's taking what exists and making it better
- Example: Service time went through lunch hour, causing poor attendance - the team shaved time and moved service 30 minutes earlier, resulting in tremendous growth
The best ideas for your church are inside your team

Focus on personal and leadership development
- When staff get better, the church gets better
So often, senior leaders get development opportunities (conferences, mentoring calls), but regular staff often don't have a plan laid out for them or don’t have a focus on them.
- Build an intentional plan for staff to attend conferences and receive leadership development

Organizations lose approximately 3 out of 8 work hours per day to distraction and unproductive work, which is equivalent to losing $108,000 in hours annually. Often in this world today, we are being trained for distraction rather than focused work.