What Matters Most: Clarity in Hiring Exercise

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A simple clarity exercise to help your team identify and align around the qualities that matter most so you can move forward with greater confidence in your hiring process.

The What Matters Most: Ministry Hiring Clarity Exercise helps your team slow down and clearly define what matters most before moving forward in a search.

In today’s ministry hiring environment, roles are more complex and candidate pools are shifting. Without shared clarity, teams often evaluate candidates differently, leading to misalignment and uncertainty.

This exercise helps your team move beyond individual preferences into shared discernment around the most important qualities for this role.

By the end, your team will have seven prioritized qualities to guide interviews, shape evaluation conversations, and support more consistent hiring decisions.

Key Takeaways

Align your team around what matters most for this role
Move from individual opinions to shared evaluation criteria
Identify seven clear priorities for candidate evaluation
Improve consistency and clarity in interviews and decision-making
Strengthen long-term hiring outcomes through shared discernment

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About the Creator

Meghan Hatcher

Director of Innovation, Ministry Leadership Center

Meghan has served diverse faith communities in the areas of pastoral leadership, youth ministry, new church development, community engagement, and ministry innovation. She has a Master of Divinity and a Master of Science in Sustainable Development and Applied Sociology.

What Matters Most: Clarity in Hiring Exercise

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About the Creator

Meghan Hatcher

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