Join Gavin and Anna Wood, the Operations Director for Cornerstone Liverpool, as they talk through the third part of our results for the Check-in survey, the Bad Habits of a Church Administrator.
Join Gavin and Anna Wood, the Operations Director for Cornerstone Liverpool, as they talk through the third part of our results for the Check-in survey, the Bad Habits of a Church Administrator.
Thank you to everyone who took part in the survey and shared their bad habits with us. The results were so encouraging in their openess, you can find them below:
- Plugging gaps everywhere
- Spending to much time moaning
- Ignoring issues to avoid drama
- Too controlling
- Taking too long to get things looking perfect when less than perfect would suffice.
- Saying yes without thinking.
- Trying to fill every gap (because you hear every need in the office)
- Not feeling good enough
- Forgetting things
- Patience
- Trying to be a perfectionist with everything - it's my personality type, but I'm working on it.
- Procrastinating and overthinking - getting better. Need to take more of my own advice.
- Saying Yes when I mean or should say No.
- Not enough training
- Church gossip
- People who do not stay in their lanes
- Self pity
- Thinking I am too old
- Not listening
- Not delegating enough
- Panic, when people don't carry out tasks or answer emails.
- Get annoyed, when tasks are not done.
- Unnecessary fears and anxiety
- Being more rigorous
- Mentoring and supporting more people
- Tendency to overwork!
- Overthinking
- Over planning
- Over reliance on myself
- App and tech distraction
- Do what I like doing first
- Withdraw
- Long hours
- Last to book holidays
- Emailing at home
- Being a control freak and being rubbish at delegation.
- Typing instead of talking!
- Not always finishing the week with a to do list for next week. I keep forgetting how much easier it makes Mondays!
- Reading work emails late at night on my phone, then worrying all night
- Being interrupted and not finish what you started
- Not reading email properly
- Worry about the church and future
- Doing things in my own strength
- Being an achiever not being a slave to the to do list (Trello / slack )
- Staying late to finish stuff
- Becoming too task focussed instead of people focussed
- Working beyond my hours
- Starting late
- Always saying yes
- Not letting go
- Taking on too much
- Putting too much pressure on myself
- Listening to negativity / gossip
- Rushing and delaying
- Time management erratic, intolerance of less enthusiastic colleagues.
- Saying yes, putting back to back meetings in diary, getting distracted
- Getting distracted and putting off jobs you need to do!
- Trying to do too many things. I need to learn what can be dropped
- Being too flexible, towards the urgent tasks and not following through on the planned 'important but non-urgent' tasks
- Not starting in prayer/scripture on a daily basis enough
- A reluctance to delegate in case it burdens others.
- Apologising when there is no need to - including when I am just doing my job!
- Becoming frustrated when the 'unexpected' makes a full workload even more difficult to fulfil well.
- Holding too many things in my head.
- Stepping in too readily to help out.
- Lack of understanding around the role - people see the "added layer" of governance as often frustrating.
- Lack of willingness from others to embrace policies if in place.
- Long hours
- Over control things
- Withdraw from people, staff and volunteers
- Long coffee breaks
- Make lots of notes but lose my notebook.
- Try and control everything!
- Lose my notes
- Withdraw and get stressed
- Habit of long hours
- Too much focus on the details and not on the bigger picture!
- Plan, replan
- Feeling that you have to be available 24/7 to anyone who wants to email, text or call me.
