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On occasion, and especially for short-term (or fixed-term) support raisers, milestones are not met by the missionary. In response to this, often churches will ask for some stronger accountability. Reliant then creates what's called a Standard of Performance (SOP) specific to the individual.
What is a Standard of Performance
A Standard of Performance is a document that outlines weekly goals for a short time frame. The main difference between an SOP timeframe and normal MTD is that these goals, agreed upon by the church and Reliant, are now required instead of suggested. An SOP explicitly outlines the minimums that we expect of the missionary moving forward. To be clear, this is not meant to be a punishment, but to help motivate and push each missionary to meet their goals and get fully funded. It is meant to add structure to the week-to-week journey with support raising for missionaries.
How to Create A Standard of Performance
There are a couple of ways to create a Standard of Performance, but they all start with an agreement with the church leadership and Reliant that some different kind of accountability is needed to help the missionary take some steps forward. Once that agreement is made, Reliant will write up the SOP using a few metrics.
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Standard of Performance Process
- After a discussion with leadership, a decision to create an SOP is made
- Create goals based on previous performance and needed progress
- Deliver SOP to supervisor for approval
- Once approved, make sure missionary and coach also have a copy
- Coach will use SOP to dictate goals for the period of time SOP dictates
- Coach will update Reliant Central on progress, then Reliant will update the supervisor
- At the end of the allotted timeframe, the supervisor and Reliant Central will evaluate progress and take action steps for the missionary moving forward.
- Possible deferral until next year
- Second SOP for continued progress
- Enough progress to let the missionary go back to raising without strict expectations
