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CommunicationJun 2026

Staff and volunteers disagree most about communication

Of the five dimensions, internal communication shows the widest split between paid and unpaid teams.

Within the Team dimension, one sub-question splits paid staff and volunteers further apart than any other: whether communication about decisions actually reaches the people carrying them out.

Staff rate this significantly higher than volunteers do — a gap that widens, not narrows, as churches grow past 500 attendees. It points to a specific and fixable failure mode: information travels well within the paid staff layer and thins out past it.