Have you done your regular health check-up this year? How well are you, as compared to your previous check-up? Did you carry out the regimen prescribed by your doctor which you had agreed to do; e.g., diet, exercise, etc.? How is your blood pressure, blood sugar, BMI, weight, waist size, etc.? In addition to your physical health, what about your fiscal, emotional, and spiritual health? Also, how well is your ministry health? Have you done a check-up of your ministry health, and reviewed your performance based on what you agreed to?
Following up to my previous blog posts, e.g., “To Budget or Not to Budget, that is not the question!” and “’Tis 2 months before CHRISTmas…,” check out this post from Charity Village, “Six Tips for Successful Executive Director Performance Reviews.” Albeit this recent post appears to be about “performance reviews” for ED/CEO’s of charitable organizations, these tips can also apply to executive leaders in churches such as the Senior/Lead Pastors, Executive Pastors, and other executive and administrative officers.
In church ministry, some spurn “performance reviews” in disdain as they think these are to evaluate them. They purport that they are accountable only to God, their sole supervisor, for their ministry and that no human committee has the authority to evaluate them. In spite of their personification of what they had done, the review is not about them per se but their actual performance. The objective of a review is to provide insight on what and how they did, reveal their blind spots, reflect in hindsight to engender foresight to proceed until the next review. The feedback is to empower them to continue to serve with efficacy, more effectively and more efficiently, and with excellence.