Annual Reviews and New Salaries 

Supervisors, we appreciate the ministry of supervision you provide our missionaries! Once a year, Reliant Missionaries and Supervisors evaluate their jobs and review their performances. After evaluations are completed, Reliant program team leads work together with Supervisors and/or the church or ministry's compensation teams to set updated salaries for the coming year.

As a reminder, here are a few distinctions to our newer Annual Review process:

• This document will be a shared resource between the Missionary and their Supervisor.
• The Missionary will complete their portion and then share this resource with their Supervisor to fill out their section.
  • For Collegiate Program Team only: Pastors, pastor spouses, and local church board members - you will share this with both your Supervisor and your church personnel committee.
• Once completed, the Supervisor (or Personnel Committee) will share this Google Sheet with their program team at either collegiate.program@reliant.org or us@reliant.org.

Missionary

1. Find your most current Job Description. You will be referring to it as you complete the Missionary Input portion of the Annual Review.
   1. If you cannot find your job description or do not believe you have an updated one, be prepared to give your best estimation of your primary roles during your review.
2. In your Reliant email inbox, find the email with the link to the Annual Review.
3. Click on the Annual Review Link and make a copy of the Google Sheet.
4. Rename the Google Sheet to "2023 Spring Annual Review (Last name, First Name)".
5. Review the Missionary Input tab. You will need to complete all of the boxes highlighted in blue. Once you complete the field, it will no longer be green.

Ministry Team Development Section

• If needed, access your giving information here (staffnet.reliant.org).
• Notice that the rating boxes have small arrows to the right. Click on an arrow to select an option in the dropdown.

Ministry Duties Section

• Refer to your current job description and enter 5 to 7 of your most significant ministry duties in the column labeled "Ministry Job Description."
  • If you do not have a current job description or do not know where to find it, select some of your most significant duties, and you can work with your pastor during or after review season to update your job description.
• Use the dropdown arrows in the boxes in the Self-Assessment column to choose the rating that best describes your performance over the last year. 

Ministry Skills Section

• If needed, you can review the Ministry Skills tab to see the list of skills and their definitions.
• In the section, you can use the dropdown arrow to select skills that are most necessary for your role. Once you choose a skill from the list, the definition will automatically populate below.
  • If you'd like to add a skill that isn't on the list, you can select "Other" from the dropdown and then type the name of the skill and a short definition in the box below.
• After choosing a skill, use the dropdown arrows in the Self-Assessment column to select a rating. Then provide a short explanation for your self-assessment.

Character Section

• Use the dropdown arrows in the boxes in the Self-Assessment column to choose the rating that best describes each area of your character development.

Accomplishments Section

• Write down some accomplishments you and your team had over the last year.

Look Forward Section

• Answer the questions about goals you have for the upcoming year.

Missionary Job Description

• After looking at your job description, select from the dropdown the appropriate statement. You can add comments in the box to the right.

When complete, use the Share button in the upper right-hand corner and share the document with your Supervisor and any other person completing your Annual Review. (E.g., a Church Personnel Committee)

Supervisor

The Missionary will share the Annual Review Google Sheet with you to begin the process, so please watch your inbox for that notification email.

1. Once you access the Google Sheet, review the Missionary Input tab to see how the Missionary completed their self-assessment and comments.
2. Go to the Supervisor Input tab. You will need to complete all of the boxes highlighted in yellow. Once you complete the field, it will no longer be yellow.

Ministry Team Development Section

• If needed, access the Missionary's giving information here (Coachnet.reliant.org).
• After checking what the Missionary wrote on the Missionary Input tab for this section, provide any feedback regarding their MTD Duties.

Ministry Duties Section

• The Ministry Duties will automatically populate after the Missionary completes this section on the Missionary Input tab.
  • NOTE: If the duties that the Missionary listed for themselves do not line up with your assessment of their duties, this could be a good conversation piece and opportunity to update their job description.
• Use the dropdown arrows in the boxes in the Assessment column to choose the rating that best describes their performance over the last year.
  • Notice that the rating boxes have small arrows to the right. Click on an arrow to select an option in the dropdown. 
• Make sure you add your comments.

Ministry Skills Section

• The Ministry Skills and definitions will automatically populate after the Missionary completes this section on the Missionary Input tab.
• Use the dropdown arrows in the Assessment column to select a rating. Then provide a short explanation for your assessment.

Character Section

• Review what the Missionary wrote on the Missionary Input tab and provide comments or feedback.

Accomplishments Section

• Review what the Missionary wrote on the Missionary Input tab in this section. You can provide additional comments about what they wrote as an accomplishment or add other achievements you observed over the last year. 

Look Forward Section

• Review what the Missionary wrote on the Missionary Input tab in this section, and provide input on the goals they set and other goals you have for them.

Missionary Job Description

• This section will automatically populate with what the Missionary wrote on their input tab. Please discuss any changes to the job description with the Missionary.
• If changes need to be made to the Missionary's Staff Level, please check the box in this section. You can also go to the linked Solomon page for instructions on starting the process with Central on changing Staff Levels.

When complete, submit Annual Review by clicking on the "Share" button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and entering either us@reliant.org for the U.S. Churches and Ministries Program or collegiate.program@reliant.org for the Collegiate Program Team.

Don't know which Program Team to share it with? Go to What Program Team Am I On?

Annual Review

Some significant changes are coming to the Performance Evaluation, now called "Annual Review." The most notable difference is that the Missionary now has a central role in the Annual Review. They will initially complete a Missionary Input tab, which allows them to do a self-assessment on their performance of MTD, Ministry Duties, Ministry Skills, and Character. They will also share their accomplishments over the past year and goals for the following year.

The new Annual Review can be tailored to the job role. Like the previous version, the Missionary will add five to seven of their most significant ministry duties to the Review. However, then they can now select five ministry skills from a list (or add skills, not on the list) that are most necessary for their role and complete a self-assessment on those skills.

The rating scales have also been changed on the new Annual Review to more simplified language. 

After the Missionary completes their portion, they will share it with their Supervisors and/or other leaders who will complete the Annual Review. The Supervisor should review the Missionary Input tab and then fill out the Supervisor Input tab. The Missionary will be able to see what the Supervisor entered in the Annual Review.