Guest Blog: Lori Black, Assistant to Pastor Steven Furtick
It’s end of year staff evaluation time here at Elevation. As a staff, we all have mixed emotions about our evaluations. In fact, I think we’d describe it as a love/hate relationship.
And here’s why… we hate them because it challenges us to take a long, hard look into our work performance, our ability to meet goals and deadlines, our personal character and our walk with God. It’s a grueling process that forces us to get really truthful with ourselves. And I’ll be honest; I’d really prefer not to dig in to all of that because sometimes it isn’t pretty.
But, we love staff evaluations because Pastor Steven is intensely committed to seeing us reach our full potential. We know at the end of the process we’ll be encouraged, motivated and directed on how to take our areas of ministry to the next level and the action steps needed to develop our disciplines and character.
I can’t tell you how valuable it’s been in my personal development. Pastor Steven establishes clear, consistent goals and expectations and that enables me to operate with clarity and confidence. I really believe the intensity of our staff evaluation process is a huge part of the continued improvement of our staff as well as unity. When Pastor invests so much thought, prayer and time into my personal growth, it makes me feel valued and I’m motivated to operate at a higher level. And since he places such a high priority on development, it creates a unified staff committed to helping each other reach their full potential.
So, bring it on. I’ll gladly endure the process and face some hard truths to allow God to take me to a new level in my ministry. And I’m thankful Pastor Steven has the vision to see my potential and call it out—it’s been life changing.