{"id":35665,"date":"2025-01-16T17:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ldhr.org\/?p=35665"},"modified":"2025-01-17T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:56:11","slug":"everyone-was-right-wellbeing-and-retention-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ldhr.org\/pl\/everyone-was-right-wellbeing-and-retention-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone was Right (Wellbeing and Retention 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A long time ago <\/i><\/b>(the 90’s) <\/span>in a conference far, far away <\/i><\/b>(London)<\/span>, a band of rebel HR leaders gathered in secret to dream of a new hope, a new vision of what thriving Christian organisations might look like. <\/i><\/b>Let me tell you the story of what happened.<\/span><\/p>

The “Christian Distinctives” group was born through a shared commitment to seeing churches, mission agencies and other Christian organisations become <\/span>“spiritually passionate, professionally excellent and distinctively Christian”.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>A few good friends in the HR community and I spent the next few years speaking and leading seminars on HR in ways that combined industry best practices with 24-carat Biblical values.\u00a0 We lobbied and worked with government on employment legislation and published resources like the<\/span> Distinctives<\/span><\/a> HR Handbook for Churches & Organisations and developed an organisational assessment called <\/span>Aspire<\/i><\/b>.<\/span><\/p>

Aspire was a phenomenally researched and tested tool for Christian Organisations to assess their organisational health.\u00a0 It was sophisticated and thorough, providing evidence-rich feedback and action plans delivered through highly experienced consultants.\u00a0 It was fantastic… <\/span>and commercially, it was a disaster.<\/b>\u00a0 We couldn’t persuade organisations to use it.\u00a0 We knew exactly what organisations needed to enable their people to thrive, but we seemed unable to get them to hear it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

But what did come out of this time was a rich knowledge of the key factors that determined whether an organisation flourished and had staff that were thriving.\u00a0 <\/span>Of the questions that were asked many times in many organisations, 19 of them proved to be determinative<\/b>: the tipping points of whether the Church or movement was doing well, reaching its potential with committed staff who loved being there.<\/span><\/p>

Those 19 questions grouped themselves into five headline areas that we could show were needed in every organisation.\u00a0 The areas were:<\/span><\/p>