Talent Scouting Programme

An explaination by Lud Lee, Mother Of All Servants. Cut and pasted from his e-mail without edit.

Talent Scouting, Why?

The church, especially creative ministry has been doing recruitment drive for many years and one of the weaknesses is that there is a mismatch in the vacancies available and the resources offered.

The other issue is that sometimes the follow-up is not done due to several factors and one of them is the availability of mentors/coaches/trainers. The other issue would be the time of practice and training. It is either the trainer is not free or the trainee is not available.

Another issue is the lack of staying power of both the trainer and trainee. Couple with that is the availability of opportunity for the trainee to practise their skills.

Looking at the situation above, it would be a better option to talent scout the person. This can at least address some of the issues namely :

1. The availability and readiness of the mentors

2. The availability of the trainees and the commitment of the trainees to be trained for a certain period of time

3. The agreement of time and day of practice and the duration of the training

4. The exact matching of the need with the resource available.

5. The progression of the trainee can be monitored and thus thrust into service at the appropriate time.

With that mentioned, it does not mean that we don't believe in the practise of recruitment drive. On the contrary, we believe and support the recruitment drive fully as we could also "net" some hidden talent from this exercise. The hard work would be to match the talent to the vacancies with the various variables at play.

This perhaps may be a slow process but I believe this is a more effective way of ensuring the people recruited will not fall into the crack.

Please do understand that this is only peculiar to Creative Woship Ministry and not applicable to the other department.

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Regards and God Bless

Lud Lee