I’m about to send out the appraisal form, which we are also using for self-appraisals this year. I need them back by July 7th, so there’s not a lot of time. Feel free to give yourself ratings, as well as make comments that I’ll find helpful in writing your appraisal. Feel free to write something [...]
Archive for June 2006
Don't panic, it's just a performance review
June 26, 2006Cool/amusing nanopeople
June 19, 2006I just thought this was cool, and rather amusing. Nanopeople! Kind of like smileys on the nanoscale. tc>
Performance Appraisal Process
June 19, 2006Yep, HR has finalized the plan and schedule for Performance Appraisals. The process kicks off this week, and gets us doing the appraisals right after the end of the goal period. (Which is certainly what *I* want to see.) The process this year is intended to work as follows: (lifted shamelessly from their memo) Week [...]
Performance appraisals; raises
June 14, 2006We’re still waiting for HR to finalize their plans for performance appraisals this year. They are redoing the form and the rating system, and will be redoing the goals themselves next year, so I expect both pushback and changes. Raises are, of course, determined in large part by the appraisals. The escalation the past few [...]
Last item on the All-Hands. Retreat and Ivan.
June 13, 2006Joe’s comments on the retreat: End of FY05 and start of FY06 was very challenging for the management team, which got in the way of working together. We met offsite in March to start a recovery process. We put a bunch of issues on the table, and have been talking about them since. We now [...]
Notes from the ESS All-Hands.
June 13, 2006I didn’t realize it had been most of a week since I last posted. Yikes. Here’s the usual brain dump. Flash news – Tropical Storm Alberto has come ashore. Joe started with acknowledgement: Tony Krueger’s AURA award, Christine Ritchie and Tony Rodgers for the PC and preprocessor software; Rob Hawkins, Brian Sietz and Christine for [...]
Carl on Storage and Network Enhancements
June 8, 2006Carl is using the SAS staff to preview his all-hands talk on storage. He’ll be giving the same talk (with edits based on our feedback) at next Tuesday’s all-hands. To get the extra money to redo the network and storage infrastructure, we had to demonstrate that we needed to fund a major infrastructure initiative. Current [...]
All-Hands on the new organization.
June 7, 2006Here’s my usual disorganized notes about what I heard/saw today. The starting slide was “Getting the Job Done” and it was up when I came in, so I suspected it would be a theme. Sure enough, Matt said it was a theme. Matt said there was a lot of turbulence over the past few years, [...]
Ivan was here
June 7, 2006I’ll update this later, but yes, Ivan Rosenberg did come to work with us on the ESS organization. How this falls out will be … interesting. Update: So, you can now see the work in progress that is the theme teams at the Theme Teams Wiki. Ask if you have questions. tc>
Ivan is coming?
June 1, 2006Ivan Rosenberg, who is an organizational consultant who worked with Matt Mountain at Gemini, is coming back to the Institute to talk to the Divisions. Next Tuesday and Wednesday he’ll be talking to some ESS people and some of our internal customers. Joe’s plan is to have some leads, some of the long-term staff, and [...]
