{"id":199,"date":"2021-10-13T19:01:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/?p=199"},"modified":"2021-10-14T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T00:02:01","slug":"annual-check-ups-love-em-or-loathe-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/annual-check-ups-love-em-or-loathe-em\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Check UPs \u2026 Love \u2018em or Loathe \u2018em"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 <strong><em>ministry<\/em><\/strong> health? Have you done a check-up of your ministry health, and reviewed your performance based on what you agreed to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following up to my previous <a href=\"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/category\/blog-post\/\">blog<\/a> posts, e.g., \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/weswong.com\/cgi-bin\/ebb\/blog2\/index.php?action=viewcomments&amp;pid=5\">To Budget or Not to Budget, that is not the question!<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/weswong.com\/cgi-bin\/ebb\/blog2\/index.php?action=viewcomments&amp;pid=17\">\u2019Tis 2 months before CHRISTmas\u2026<\/a>,\u201d check out this post from Charity Village, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/charityvillage.com\/six-tips-for-successful-executive-director-performance-reviews\/\">Six Tips for Successful Executive Director Performance Reviews<\/a>.\u201d Albeit this recent post appears to be about \u201cperformance reviews\u201d for ED\/CEO\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In church ministry, some spurn \u201cperformance reviews\u201d 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 <em>per se<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/annual-check-ups-love-em-or-loathe-em\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Annual Check UPs \u2026 Love \u2018em or Loathe \u2018em<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}