Key to assessing an Employee's Performance is the setting of objectives. A key element of the performance appraisal process should be reviewing how well the employee has performed in relation to objectives that have previously been set for them. For objectives to be useful, it is often said they should be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Results orientated, Time framed
Case Study Published By: Adobe
Published Date: May 16, 2012
Find out how the Nation's largest high school journalism program uses Adobe Creative 5.5 Master Collection to cultivate the next generation of award-winning print, broadcast, and web journalists.
White Paper Published By: ShoreTel
Published Date: Oct 11, 2011
Find out what important criteria are used in evaluating IP telephony vendors, what real customers are saying about their experiences, and the state of the IP telephony industry today.
White Paper Published By: AtTask
Published Date: Feb 11, 2012
In this free case study Forrester Research explains how the melding of task management with social networking is increasing transparency and team member buy-in for projects - dramatically increasing projects delivered on time and within budget.
White Paper Published By: AtTask
Published Date: Feb 11, 2012
It really doesn't matter if you are leading an army into battle or a product into market, sometimes the best solutions seem counter-intuitive. The same is true with project management. This document will safeguard your success.
White Paper Published By: AtTask
Published Date: Feb 11, 2012
To protect their investment in a project, an organization needs to engage in a three step process to put a reasonable and viable risk management plan in place. This free guide walks you through the process.
White Paper Published By: TeamQuest
Published Date: Jan 23, 2012
This guide is designed to help those IT leaders who are now looking to assemble a capacity management organization and put in place the processes and best practices to make it successful.
White Paper Published By: GoToMeeting
Published Date: Oct 11, 2011
Distributed work programs are one of the most effective ways of achieving badly-needed operational savings. To be effective, however, you need to know which practices and tools are most effective for managing remote staff.
This new white paper addresses three fundamental management questions, explores key challenges of managing remote workers and provides best practices for setting up a successful remote work program.
White Paper Published By: GoToMeeting
Published Date: Oct 11, 2011
Video conferencing use is growing. In fact, users recently surveyed by 1080 Group expect it to grow by 211% in the next year. Better make sure you're putting your best virtual face forward.
Video conferencing no longer has to mean 'go to a room with expensive, hard-to-use equipment installed.'
This new 1080 Group white paper explores best practices for video conferencing and provides a handy checklist for preparing and conducting a successful video conferencing session.
Webinar Published By: GoToMeeting
Published Date: Oct 11, 2011
It's one thing to change yourself, but to effect change in the world around you, you have to get other people involved in the process - which isn't always easy.
Watch this on-demand webinar to hear Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of Alltop.com and founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures, explain how enchantment enables you to influence people's hearts, minds and actions to bring about voluntary, enduring and delightful change.
Webinar Published By: GoToMeeting
Published Date: Oct 11, 2011
Great leaders always have one thing in common: They are able to inspire people to act.
From Martin Luther King Jr. to Steve Jobs, leaders with the ability to inspire don't start with what they want done or how they want it done. Great leaders always start with Why.
Watch this on-demand webinar to hear Simon Sinek, leadership expert and best-selling author, explain how real inspiration starts with Why and what changes you can make - in both your business and personal life - to achieve the same success.
White Paper Published By: GoToMeeting
Published Date: Oct 11, 2011
Building a team culture can be challenging - particularly if members of your team are distributed around the globe.
Teamwork ensues when the team feels stable, is focused, able to envision the work required to achieve it and collaborate in an ego-less structure of contribution.
This new white paper explores how to build a team culture regardless of where team members are located.
Webinar Published By: GoToAssist
Published Date: Oct 05, 2011
When budgets are tight, it's more important than ever to get the best performance from the people who deliver, support and deploy technology. But over the past decade, managers have fallen into the trap of believing that motivation requires ever larger bags of money.
Watch this on-demand webinar with Paul Glen, author of Leading Geeks, as he discusses the most effective and surprisingly inexpensive ways to motivate geeks. Getting the best from your people requires clearly understanding what really drives them.
Webinar Published By: Absolute Software
Published Date: Sep 09, 2011
Join Michael Scarpelli, Technical Support Manager for La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, as he shares how his team streamlines and automates computer setup and maintenance for a rapidly growing network of more than 500 machines.
To survive in today's marketplace, small to mid-sized businesses are increasingly using the power of company-wide goal alignment to generate strong financial performance, increase productivity and create a more cohesive culture than their larger competitors.
A successful pay-for-performance culture can literally transform any business. Learn the key steps necessary to unlock your employees' potential, keep your "superstars" happy and ultimately drive a healthier bottom line.
White Paper Published By: Webroot
Published Date: Jul 20, 2011
The internet has become a key business tool for organisations in all types of industry and its importance continues to grow as an ever wider range of devices, such as smartphones, allow immediate, always-on connectivity. Its importance is not lost on hackers, who are looking to attack networks via the web as many see this as the greatest opportunity for their exploits to be successful. Their chances of success only increase with growing demand for interactivity of services and more collaboration, leading to ever more sensitive information flowing around communications networks.
White Paper Published By: Webroot
Published Date: Jul 20, 2011
Small businesses, representing companies with fewer than 500 employees, represent 99.9% of all employers in the UK1, and 99.7% of US employers2. As such, they are a substantial economic driver, and can be considered part of the critical national infrastructure, meaning that their security readiness is a significant issue. As a leader in the campaign to secure companies of all sizes against cyber attack, Web security company Webroot undertook a survey to help increase the understanding of small to medium-sized business (SMB) security awareness and readiness. Webroot sampled businesses across the US, the UK, and Australia, and used responses from organisations of various sizes to help gauge the security stance of SMBs in context.
White Paper Published By: Webroot
Published Date: Jul 20, 2011
Computer and networking technologies continue to evolve rapidly, enabling previously unthought-of ways of communicating and collaborating with our peers, suppliers and clients. Unfortunately, they have also created new opportunities for cybercrime - the bad guys are using the distributed power of the internet to maximise their reach and impact. From an IT security perspective we still follow approaches and practices that are more than two decades old. The old models neither support today's business activities, nor do they protect against the sophisticated and highly targeted attacks that are becoming prevalent.