MUSICIAN MANAGER
Musician Managers carry a high level of leadership in the campus and are empowered to develop the musicians and raise the level of musicianship across that campus. The three main goals they have are identifying and training MDs for the campus, ensuring development and discipleship of all musicians is happening and ensuring our musician scheduling is strong!
Identifying and Training MDs
The goal for every campus is to have a wide team of competent, rosterable Music Directors for services. One of the main objectives of a Musician Manager is to identify and develop those Music Directors. This is done through intentional training, having an prospective MD shadow the Musician Manager or a veteran MD and having the prospective MD go through our MD Training Course (to create a baseline of training) then discuss what they learned. Every MD should be constantly growing so the Musician Manager should always be speaking into the excellence of all our MDs for the campus!
Development and Discipleship of Musicians
“Development and Discipleship” is one of our main core values as a church and one of the most important aspects of what we do off-stage as a team. It’s so important that every one of our musicians is being poured into personally and musically. On the development side, a wise Musician Manager would appoint team leads to work with people directly (so it’s not all on their shoulders). A best practice of this could look like MDs each taking 3-6 musicians under their wing. On the discipleship side, they’d use that same leadership structure to meet with the musicians and ensure they’re being discipled, whether by the MDs themselves or if the musician is being discipled elsewhere, periodically checking in and making sure that discipleship relationship is still going strong. When it comes to discipleship, we don’t want people slipping through the cracks, but we also want to avoid multiple people from different areas or ministries simultaneously thinking they’re the only discipleship point person in that musician’s life. The Musician Manager then isn’t directly discipling and developing all musicians, but instead, spending their time pouring into the MDs of the campus.
Oversee Musician Scheduling
The third main objective of a Musician Manager is to ensure that musician scheduling is STRONG at the campus! It’s highly recommended that the Musician Manager have a season of musician rostering under their belt so they can wisely lead the Musician Scheduler. A crucial part of making sure musician rostering is strong is the understanding of variables. If we manage variables well, they can lead to the development of our developing team members. If we don’t take any risks with variables, we won’t grow as a team. If we have too many variables for a service, we could be setting ourselves up for an uphill battle and/or a distracting set.
Success Measures
EVERY musician is being discipled, whether by someone on our team or through somewhere else in our church’s discipleship structures (connect group, Pathfinders, etc)
The number of musicians who can MD is growing across the campus
The excellence of our MDs is constantly growing
The level of musical excellence among musicians across the campus is constantly growing
Musician scheduling is strong at the campus