Supporting Your Administrative Staff

by | Administration, Leadership, Operations, Podcasts, Team Development

Finding and keeping the right support staff for your church is a vital part of helping you stay on mission. Join William Vanderbloemen and Carl Barnhill as they share how to find the right person for your administrative support roles and how to help them through the challenges they may be facing.

Meet William and Carl

Guest Speaker: William Vanderbloemen

William Vanderbloemen is an entrepreneur, pastor, speaker, author, and CEO/Founder of Vanderbloemen. William has combined over 15 years of ministry experience as a Senior Pastor with the best practices of executive search to provide churches with a unique offering: a deep understanding of local church work with the very best knowledge and practices of professional executive search.

Vanderbloemen has served over 800 churches since its founding eight years ago, has grown to thirty-five full-time employees, and has won several company culture awards. Prior to founding Vanderbloemen, William studied executive search under a mentor with over 25 years of executive search experience.

Besides helping organizations with hiring and succession planning, William spends a whole lot of time with family and connecting with people. William is an avid social networker. Whether connecting with friends, candidates for searches he is doing, or church members, he loves to network. William, his wife Adrienne, their seven children, and their poodles Moses and Pearl live in Houston. In his free time, William enjoys running, working out, and caddying for his kids, who are now better golfers than he is.

Guest Host: Carl Barnhill

Carl Barnhill is a creative entrepreneur, motion designer and author. He is the Owner and Creative Director of [twelve:thirty]media, a company that serves churches and ministries all over the world through motion graphics content and church media coaching. He is the host of “The Making Sunday Happen Podcast” and author of “The Ultimate Production Team Handbook.”

You can find him in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife, Katie and two sons, Jacob and Wesley.

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