We begin this new series of processes we have learned which will allow you to do a stellar life and ministry year end review (YER). If you would like to take part in this thorough process, you need to calendar the following things now:

1. 1. Set aside a day outside the office late November/early December to do the personal assessment exercise sections of the process.
2. 2. Calendar a time to take 30 min or preferably an hour for every member of your ministry team to complete and return the participant evaluation exercise. (We prefer to do this in a group setting, as emailing them out gets you very few returns).
3. 3. Calendar a time to meet with your captains as individuals for their assessment of you and the ministry, and your assessment of them.
4. 4. Set aside an additional half-day for yourself after the individual assessments for mastery points exercise and personal goals tweaking.
5. 5. Calendar a group captain gathering to formalize 08 goals and agendas. I usually do a Friday night dinner at a nice restaurant to say thanks followed by a Saturday morning get together at my house.
6. 6. Find a time to vision cast reviews/goals 08 that are appropriate with all ministry participants.

You’ll need to start calendaring these dates now. In the coming weeks, we’ll provide the resources and tools for each of these segments. There are some cool things we have learned over the years to make this a highly effective process.

Here are the other posts in this series:

Year End Review: Process 1 Self-Evaluation

Year End Review: Process 2 Team Response and Evaluation

Year End Review: Process 3 Captain’s Interview

Year End Review Tool: Process 4 Writing Next Year’s Goals