Church Employee Handbook Template

Can you really afford to not have an Employee Handbook in your Church?

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Remarkable Improvement almost Immediately

Operating a church is challenging. Like any organization, it relies on people, their abilities, and clear, efficient communication.

Do you quickly need to improve how your church organization operates without spending a huge amount of capital? Are you frequently dissatisfied with how your church’s staff, volunteers, and others work together as a team?

A Church Employee Handbook allows you to strengthen your organization by communicating the mission, direction, and standards of your church to your team. It is your ‘silent partner’ who communicates expectations both when you are present and when you are not.

You are a busy senior church leader who cannot be everywhere at once. A Church Employee Handbook is a low-cost partner in your organization that helps you express expectations and drive your church towards its set Vision and Mission.

Can you really afford not have an Employee Handbook in your church?

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3 Real Breakthrough Benefits of a Church Employee Handbook

As mentioned above, a Church Employee Handbook will improve many areas in your church.

One significant advantage is that your team of workers, volunteers, and assistants will immediately understand what is necessary. Guidelines apply to churches and non-profit organizations in the same way that standards apply to traditional businesses.

A Church Employee Handbook will dramatically reduce the need for you, the senior leader, to have to repeat yourself over and over again.

Benefit 1. Improved Communication of Specifics

Many churches do not operate efficiently because the team have not been told the specifics including guidelines on how to perform basic tasks, such as administrative or organizational tasks, that any organization requires just to function.

An Employee Handbook helps to fill this gap.

Benefit 2. Improved Delegation

You must be specific to your team if you desire to lift some of the load off your shoulders, integrate your team together and move forward toward your vision for the future.

Delegating through an Employee Manual will reduce the need to repeat yourself particularly when new members, employees and volunteers arrive in your organization.

Benefit 3. Clear Understanding of Expectations

Having a tool that identifies expectations including safety requirements in detail allows your team to know where they stand. This will result in better performance, improved communication, and less friction.

Documenting the detail will communicate your expectations easier, and as mentioned above, reduce the need for you to have to repeat yourself over and over again particularly when new people arrive.

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Huge Time Saver Template

Creating a Church Employee Handbook requires a significant amount of time and effort. This template will help you quickly and easily construct your Employee Handbook.
You will be able to create your guidebook in minutes rather than months and may adapt it to your exact needs.

There are also checklists which are incredibly useful for getting tasks completed correctly. Review some of the content below.

The pages shown below are only a sample of the entire Church Employee Handbook. The Table of Contents shows the complete content and all pages included.

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Review the Detail

This is a 41-page template.

Title Page

The following page is the title page. You can easily customize this to suit your church and add logos or other items.

Table of Contents

The following page shows the Table of Contents and the detail included within the template.

Section 1 – Welcome

The first section is a welcoming message for new employees. This is an opportunity to introduce the church and also the Employee Handbook to your team.

Section 2 – History, Vision and Direction

Section 2 is an opportunity to communicate the history of the church and provide direction for the future including your Vision and Mission Statement.

It is important that you have a Vision and Mission Statement for your organization to provide direction for your team and show leadership to your employees, volunteers, church members and suppliers.

Section 3 – Values

Section 3 defines values. Values are important for your team, so they understand what the expectations are. If you don’t communicate values to your team, they will use their own values which may not be appropriate or may not meet expectations.

Values provide a foundation for expected appropriate behavior.

Section 5 – General Details

Section 5 includes space to add all your general details and explains reporting relationships and an organizational chart.

Section 6 – Workplace Requirements

Section 6 includes a range of workplace requirements typically found in any organization. There are standard workplace requirements including leave.

Section 7 – Health, Safety and Emergencies

Section 7 is about health, safe work practices and emergencies.

There is also a section to include your emergency evacuation exit maps and diagrams.

Section 8 – Workplace Equipment

Section 8 is about workplace equipment.

Section 9 – Procedures

Section 9 includes a range of procedures. There are quite a few standard types of procedures commonly found in any organization. You can easily add your own procedures to the manual as well.

Procedure Example 1 – How to Open the Church

The first example is How to Open the Church. Procedures should be detailed and explained in steps. If you want your team to operate in a particular manner, then including all the steps is important.

It is also a good idea to involve your team when creating the steps for each procedure. They will have a valuable contribution to creating the correct steps for each procedure.

The second example is How to Clean the Church. Procedures should be detailed and explained in steps.

Section 10 – Summary

Section 10 is a summary of the Church Employee Handbook.

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What is Included?

Church Employee Handbook Template
Microsoft Word .docx

Page Count
46

Word Count
4769

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Free Bonus No.1
Employee Code of Conduct Template

When you purchase the Church Employee Handbook Template above, we also include an Employee Code of Conduct Template free. Review some of the content below.

Title Page

The first page is the title page which can easily be customized to suit your church.

Table of Contents

The next page is the Table of Contents. This identifies the content within the template.

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Free Bonus No.2
15 x Quality Checklists

Also included for free are 15 x quality checklists. Quality checklists are extremely helpful and make your team’s job easier. They also allow you to assign and delegate tasks while having some assurance that quality is being met.

Even with checklists there still might be mistakes. However, they are the benchmark for getting things right. Quality checklists are a fantastic tool to assist you and your team in meeting expectations and standards.

These checklists can be modified to post on the wall, in the kitchen, in the team room or wherever they can be easily viewed and referred to. You can also provide them as print outs to your team as a reminder on how to complete any task to the expected standard.

Review two examples below. The first example is a step-by-step procedure on how to lock the church. You can customize to suit your own church and process.

Checklist Example | Lock the Church

The next quality checklist is Answering the Phone. As a church organization it is useful to present the organization in a professional manner. Providing step by step guidelines assists your team of employees and volunteers to complete these tasks well.

Checklist Example | Answering the Phone

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Total Inclusions

Church Employee Handbook Template
File Type: Microsoft Word .docx
Page Count: 41
Word Count: 4769

Free Employee Code of Conduct Template
File Type: Microsoft Word .docx
Page Count: 11
Word Count: 1384

15 x Free Quality Checklist Templates
File Type – Microsoft Word .docx
File Count: 15

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Using templates will save you a huge amount of time. Do you really have time to start from scratch? Get a huge head start by using a template to get your employee handbook underway and your team heading in the right direction fast.

All the best with your organization.

Regards,

David

P.S. The price of our products do rise based on upgrades, improvements and demand. We encourage you to buy today not only to avoid missing out at this price, but also to immediately reap the benefits of establishing an Employee Handbook in your church.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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