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A number of key features are only available to registered users. They include:

  • Access to the full content of top-rated material (only teasers are available to anonymous users after the material has been posted for 45 days)
  • The ability to search site content
  • The ability to access reviews of books relevant to site material
  • The ability to access key quotes relevant to site material
  • The ability to access content from partner sites
  • The ability to rate material
  • The ability to post comments
  • The ability to post new information and propose it for publication
  • The ability to request email notification when selected content is added or updated

Listing of goals

Goal Priority Minimum target Needed by Desired target Needed by
Help stakeholders understand how they can favorably influence outcomes from performance evaluations 1
  • Explanatory material is prepared and distributed to team members who have expressed interest in getting a better understanding of performance evaluations.
  • A follow-up survey is conducted to assess the effectiveness of this material in improving their understanding of performance evaluations.
  • Enough interest is generated through follow-up questions that there is concensus on requesting an update of the prepared materials.
  • Follow-up is scheduled or performed to address remaining issues and questions that people have.
  • Survey results indicate that at least 50% of the people who were interested in improving their understanding of the performance evaluation process believed that the information provided did improve that understanding.
  • At least 20% of the team agrees to develop and partner with their manager to pursue at least one measurable personal improvement goal in the upcoming performance period.
Improve on my own and my group's ability to deliver on our highest value goals in a timely fashion 2
  • Implement a goal prioritization system to establish relative priorities for goals
  • Define and validate a means of identifying and tracking staged goals for two different performance levels
  • Collect time spent on activities working towards satisfying each goal
  • Capture time on-line using an automated on-line timer facility
  • Produce a means of tracking progress against staged goals on-line, with a means of providing email notifcation as changes occur.
  • Use collected information to produce a report which summarizes the effort required to support goals.
Explore options for implementing portions of site's data architecture 4 Understanding of potential open-source components, and their maturity, which could support time tracking, information relationships, and workflow management.
  • Generation of reusable database constructs for the site that could serve as a basis for future work
  • Experience with workflow features sufficient to plan next steps in that direction