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#Identity as continuity. Thoughts inspired by #CISmcc.

I didn’t get to go to Cloud Identity Summit again this year. At least, not physically. I was there at a distance, attending via the very full twitter feed on #CISmcc. My experience was choppy. There were few slides. Ideas were filtered through the varied perspectives of the people tweeting. Then something odd happened in the middle of the whole experience. It changed the way I assimilated the ideas. Since attending at a distance also cuts off the nightlife, I spent the evening between the two major days of presentations knocking off a long standing item from my Netflix the man who is tall happy I watched a documentary based on conversations with Noam Chomsky called “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” As always, listening to Chomsky talk linguistics and philosophy is a bit mind blowing. Then all these cascading connections began to form between the philosophical ideas and the identity ideas. That’s where the fun began. What struck me was a deep sense of irony. There is a stark contrast between the way ideas are progressing in identity and the advice contained in those ideas.

Walking into CIS, many were already primed with notions swarming around IRM (identity relationship management). That noise reached its pitch with Ian Glazer’s thoughts and the reaction to those thoughts (the links are only examples, there’s a ton more out there). Both implicitly and explicitly it felt like this debate was very present. Thoughts were flying by fast, but I sensed a tension that felt familiar. The notion that focus on relationship was paramount versus a focus on identities (or users) had a dynamic I recognized. It was only watching Chomsky that shook loose where I had felt that before.

At one point, the documentary talks about cognitive science. It treats the subject briefly. But I’ve studied it pretty deeply. That’s where the link is. There are schools of thought that focus on a homunculus based approach to mind, looking at the entities that make up thought mechanisms (e.g. brain cells, ideas). There are other schools of thought that focus on the connections (e.g. networks of neurons, or constellations of notions). I should say here that I know I’m slaughtering the heart of both of these schools of thought for the sake of brevity. Feel free to make me pay for it in the comments. But don’t think that will stop me now – in for a penny, in for a pound. This homunculus versus connectionism dynamic suddenly became very like the identity notions of user/identity centered versus relationship centered. The reasons I rejected the dichotomy of these cognitive science ideas began to seem relevant. The battle line between focus on the points versus focus on the lines that connect the points seems to be too artificial to me. In my mind, you only get realism with all of it included.

Imagine the difference between Abbott and Costello discussing the Middle East versus Mahmoud Abbas and John Kerry discussing the Middle East, or, if you prefer, the difference between Abbott and Costello doing “Who’s on first?” versus Mahmoud Abbas and John Kerry doing “Who’s on First?” Clearly, the people and their relationships both matter when you want a full understanding of how you should react to something. We can’t have a full understanding of how identity should react (in authentication, in authorization, in entitlement management) without understanding both the identity and the relationships in which that identity are currently involved. Both the current state of being and the current state of relationship of Abbas/Abbott and Kerry/Costello are informed – even formed – by the past states of being and the history of their relationships. To imagine understanding either the men or their relationships in some idealized, ahistorical setting is ridiculous. To me, it’s the same with identities and their relationships. It’s all or nothing. You need it all to answer the basic questions. Who’s on first? Exactly*.

I said there was a deep irony here. We need to go a level deeper to root it out.

By the way, if you want a bit more irony, you can go read about how Chomsky is actually a fan of discontinuity in the context of humans acquiring language while still maintaining the importance of continuity as a feature of how we conceptualize the world.

That artificial division of concepts, the burst and stop twitter feed, these discontinuities underlined another idea Chomsky brought into the discussion in the documentary: continuity. Continuity was discussed in many ways, but the basic idea was encapsulated in a children’s story. Sylvester the donkey becomes a rock, and then is turned back into a donkey later. Chomsky uses this to show how children don’t bind words and concepts tightly. If you ask a child if Sylvester is still a donkey, even when he’s been turned into a rock, they will say yes. The identity of Sylvester transcends his physical form. Chomsky calls this continuity. In the child’s mind, and I bet in most of ours, Sylvester is a being that is a donkey and having been turned into a rock doesn’t change that. The story’s dramatic tension is the contrast of form and identity. We’re happy when things are all right: Sylvester is again a donkey in form and identity.

I see continuity echoed in so many of the themes from CIS – and the wider identity threads with which we all weave our thoughts. My friend Nishant (if one can call a man who depicts you as a bizarre mix of Jedi and nun in front of large crowds a friend) raised the ever present specter of killing IAM, making the ultimate break in continuity. Bob Blakley (who gets a halo, not a habit, from Nishant) again pointed us to a future of continuous authentication. The heart of a dichotomy like IdM versus IRM suggests a lack of continuity. Make no mistake, the breaks in continuity also fit the trend. Chomsky brings up continuity specifically because so many people wish to set up a dualistic relationship between ideas labeled by words that map intimately to “real” objects in the “real” world. But, if Sylvester the “donkey” is still a “donkey” when he is a rock, that sort of dualism doesn’t fly. The map is in the mind and it’s drawn using the continuity we all sense. When we want to label things neatly, as we so often do in technical circles, we try to break the messy continuities that come naturally in a messy world. Identity is a messy business. Anything that attempts to sum identity up neatly must betray its core features. Sylvester is always a donkey because being a donkey is part of his identity. I am always Sander regardless of my company, my relationships to other people at given times, or the avatars with which I present myself to the world (habits and Jedi robes notwithstanding). We get so frustrated with these messy threads and the knots they tie us into that we want to burn the whole thing, kill IAM off in favor of a new shiny thing that will fix all the problems. Identity is an attempt to bind a narrative that spans a lifetime to single concept. That means we will have to deal with messy continuity, and all the things we killed trying to neaten up our ideas will rise up like zombies to join us again.

Continuity is a core feature of identity. The attributes, the relationships, the actions, the entitlements, the policies, the authentications have all been about something that has been a continuous thread. You can choose to describe it through the lens of its kinetic relationships and actions; you can choose to describe it through the lens of its associated attributes. The thing you describe remains the same. It’s the continuity of that thing which binds all those other concepts. This is where the irony sets in. As we try to capture this continuity over time, we try to break the threads, disrupt the stories. We worry about picking one of the two lenses, when we need both to correct our collective vision. We want to destroy what we’ve built to rid ourselves of the messy parts we didn’t like, but those are the parts that likely came closest to the essence of what we wanted to capture. “Things that let you do anything make it hard to do anything” said Ian from the stage. And I agree. Does that mean we look for a simple solution? What if we need to get close to that level of fluidity, that ability to do anything, to truly capture the kind of continuity that can let a rock be a donkey that’s physically a rock at the moment? If that sort of extreme continuity is a core feature of identity, then our identity management teapot needs to be strong enough to hold a tempest that strange. We can’t run away from the hard bits of our approaches to identity. Those may be the bits that are the best reflection of how hard it is.

This is not meant to be a Luddite’s cry. Bring on new standards. Bring on new ideas. Bring on new technologies. It is a word of caution. If our new ideas are simply about banishing the bits we didn’t like in the old ones, if we forego dealing with the messy continuity in identity or the complicated wisdom that may be buried in our old ideas, then we’re simply falling in love with novelty. We are hopping from one engineer’s honeymoon to the next. Here we find the deepest irony. It is ironic that we would take identity, which attempts to bind with continuity a myriad of disparate things, and attempt to break it up into neat pieces. The advice we scream at those building new systems is do not simply pick up the easy, familiar identity bits they know or fall in love with the novelty of a shiny new library. We tell them to consider the larger, likely messier whole. Use the standards even if that’s a bit harder for you right now. Take from the complicated (in appearance) fabric of identity that already exists in your organization or the wider web. Do it for the sake of continuity so you can reap the benefits later. It’s advice we should all keep in mind.

If you’ve read this far, then congratulations for navigating the deep waters of my odd mind! It’s taken over a week to get this out. If you think this was complex, you should ask for some of the notes.

This is linked to from above. It’s an entertaining side note from writing this I had to share. When I quoted “Who’s on first?” as saying “Who’s on first? Exactly.” I didn’t realize I was mixing up the actual script of “Who’s on first?”, where “exactly” never appears, with the lines from Purple Rain where they mimic “Who’s on First?” The funny synchronicity is that in Purple Rain the theme they use to mimic the routine is about remembering a password! Identity really is everywhere…

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Happy New Year from IVS!

There is still time left to enroll in the Jan. 5 and Jan. 19 full-service course start dates. Click HERE to view Illinois Virtual School’s course offerings. Students seeking credit-recovery courses can enroll and start at any time. Have a great 2017!

An Illinois High School and Community College are Teaming to Give Students an Opportunity to Earn a Computer Science Degree with Their High School Diploma.

Normal Community West High School, in McClean County, and Heartland Community College have partnered to provide high school students with an opportunity to earn an Associate’s Degree in Computer Science while earning their high school diploma. 15 incoming freshmen will be chosen to participate in the dual-credit program, which will begin the summer before their junior year.

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To all my fellow Christmas-celebrating people, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas.  I am pleasantly home in the Keys right now where it’s a cool 73 degrees out.  However, what you see above is in Manchester, England’s Christmas market, where it was a bit cooler.  That’s right, the first of many […]

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Jillian Maas Backman and Simran Singh at the Oak Creek, Wisconsin Sikh Temple

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Saturday, October 19 Jillian Maas Backman facilitated Simran Singh’s “Rebel Road Tour” stop at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin to participate in a panel discussion of the topic, Oneness: From Darkness to Light.

Simran Singh’s Rebel Road Tour is for the purpose of connecting life dots from what was to what is, celebrating the human experience walking towards the expression of universal light.

Jillian Maas Backman’s relationship with the Oak Creek Sikh community has deepened over the years since she first became a student, taking her “Journey to the East” as explained in Chapter 10 of her book, Beyond the Pews. It was a great shock to Jillian, and to the nation, when on August 5, 2012 the Oak Creek Sikh Temple made national news when several members lost their lives due to a shooting. Those members are memorialized on the official website.

Simran Singh’s recap of the panel discussion and it’s effect:

3 Part Video series of the enlightening panel discussion:

Jillian Maas Backman, Change Already Radio,Beyond the Pews

Jillian Mass Backman is an Award-Winning Radio Personality and Intuitive Life Facilitator. She graduated from the University of Texas in San Antonio with a degree in Psychology. Through years of study and experience, Maas Backman has developed her career around her empathic ability to assist those who require a distinctive, natural healing and knowledge: that of the soul.

After taking a hiatus from the airwaves to finish her award-winning book, BEYOND THE PEWS: Breaking With Tradition and Letting Go of Religious Lockdown, Jillian returned to broadcasting in January 2012 with the creation of her current worldwide blog talk radio show, Change Already! Your Future, Your Choice. Along with interviewing an array of interesting guests, her groundbreaking approach offers the audience step-by-step methods that can be incorporated into their daily lives. Her show can be found at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jillianmaasbackman.

Jillian Maas Backman has been a key-note speaker at numerous colleges, seminars, and book conferences. Her client base includes corporate executives, international business leaders, celebrity musicians, artists and school administrators. Along with expanding her blog radio show, working with clients, and spending time with her family, Jillian is also working on her second book.

Since its release in 2011, BEYOND THE PEWS: Breaking With Tradition and Letting Go of Religious Lockdown has won several literary awards which include 2012 San Francisco Book Festival, Best Spiritual category; and the 2012 CONV Award, Second Runner-Up, Autobiography category.

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Simran Singh is a creative visionary, transformational catalyst and ‘Leading Voice for the Journey of the Soul’. Publisher of the Nautilus Award Winning 11:11 Magazine, the only publication to have ever been granted this designation and #1 rated, syndicated 11:11 Talk Radio show host, Simran brings to the forefront a unique interpretation blending co-creative power with metaphysics and personal responsibility. Impacting thousands upon thousands with her message, her passionate style takes individuals on a journey into personal power, authenticity and presence through writing, speaking, products and creative expression.

Simran’s passion and purpose is providing resources, wisdom and creative expression through vehicles that support the growth and evolution of consciousness on the planet. Simran assists individuals in making meaning out of the experiences in their lives, while providing focus upon the conversation begging to be had from the Universe, as a means of greater connection and self realization.

Her unique yet gentle manner of relaying thought forms catalyzes authentic living and action. Expertise in generating interpretation and understanding for the various messages and languages the Universe has available is what has led to the expansion of 11:11 media resources and audience.

Simran Singh, Publisher of the Nautilus Award Winning, leading self coaching, life enhancement publication today, 11:11 Magazine, distributed in print throughout North America and worldwide in its digital form, is the Syndicated 11:11 Talk Radio Show Host, 11:11 Innerviews On The Lighter Side – World Puja Network and The rebel Road One Woman Road Show Tour.  Simran has committed her life to providing content rich, quality information through creative vehicles.

About Sikh Temple of Wisconsin

Sikhism is a monotheistic religion founded during the 15th century in the Punjab region, by Guru Nanak which continued to progress with ten successive Sikh gurus, the last and current teaching being the holy scripture, Guru Granth Sahib. It is the fifth-largest organized religion in the world, with approximately 30 million Sikhs.

For an Introduction to Sikhism Please Click Here

The Sikh Temple of WI is organized to promote the principles & ideals of the Sikh religion regardless of color, creed, race, or national origin. The Sikh Temple is devoted to the principles and the ideals of Sikhism.

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Betty Manetta Announced as Keynote Speaker for the 2017 Immigrant Journey Awards Gala

We are so excited that 2016 immigrant entrepreneur award winner, Betty Manetta, will be our keynote speaker. Betty heads two of the top 10 Hispanic-owned businesses in north Texas. Her companies, Argent Associates and Asociar, generate over $300 million in annual revenues. Don’t miss hearing her inspiring story! Join us on June 16 for the Immigrant Journey Awards Gala.

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Outstanding North Texas Leaders Receive Immigrant Journey Awards

Immigrant Journey Awards Awarded to Outstanding North Texas Immigrants
Scheef & Stone Spotlights Positive Immigrant Achievements

_33D0728The Immigrant Journey Awards, an awards ceremony aimed at placing a spotlight on immigrant achievements and contributions to North Texas and the nation, held its annual Awards luncheon on Friday June 10, 2016.  Awards were given to recognize this year’s most important contributors from the immigrant community to the civic and economic vitality of North Texas. Proceeds from the event are used to benefit the American Dream Scholarship for immigrant or first-generation American high school seniors in North Texas.

Emmy award-winning journalist Rebecca Aguilar served as the master of ceremonies and kept the crowd of approximately 120 attendees entertained.  Guests included local dignitaries such as the Honorary Consul of the Consulate of Ecuador, Honorable Ricardo Miguel Bowen and a representative from the congressional office of Marc Veasey.  Award finalists also received congratulatory letters from the congressional offices of Eddie Bernice Johnson and Marc Veasey.

Now in its fifth year, the Immigrant Journey Awards program has become a staple event in North Texas shining a light on immigrant citizens who have made positive contributions in their respective fields and communities.  The program, sponsored by Scheef & Stone LLP, was the brainchild of Ann Massey Badmus, Partner at Scheef & Stone.

“Immigrants make important positive contributions in every facet of life, from the business world to the public square,” said Badmus.  “We see these annual awards as a way to celebrate all of those contributions and advocate immigrants throughout North Texas and beyond.”

Award candidate nominations include entrepreneurs, advocates, civic leaders and individuals who have made substantial professional achievements in their field.  Finalists are awarded in the categories of Immigrant Entrepreneur, Immigrant Professional Excellence, Immigrant Spirit and Immigrant Advocate; there is typically more than one award winner in each category.  Of the many nominations received, nine winners were recognized and they represent a broad scope of immigrants living in North Texas communities with roots in countries including Pakistan, Argentina, Iran, India, and Ethiopia.

Call for Nominations for 2016 Immigrant Journey Awards

About-Page-Nominate-Now-Button-2013Shining a spotlight on immigrant achievements and contributions in North Texas, Cowles & Thompson, PC and sponsors seek nominations for the 2016 Immigrant Journey Awards.  This awards program celebrate its 5th anniversary by continuing to honor immigrants in four categories:

Immigrant Entrepreneur Award

In recognition of an immigrant business owner who has founded a highly successful business in North Texas and who serves as a model and inspiration of success.
Immigrant Professional Excellence Award  In recognition of an immigrant who has demonstrated significant professional achievements in their field and whose advancements in their field have a positive impact their profession or community.
Immigrant Spirit Award In recognition of  an immigrant civic leader or elected official who has contributed substantially to the community or the region.
Immigrant Advocate Award

In recognition of an individual or organization making positive impact on the lives of immigrants, as an advocate.  Nominee may be an individual, an organization, a business, a governmental or community entity, or a non-profit organization.

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Tortilla + Pizza = Tortizza

Basil Collage 2Last night the Hubby and I decided to eat at home, but did not want to go to the store to get anything, so I figured I would use what we had on hand and would just make it work. I did not want boring chicken and broccoli ( I saved that for tonight’s dinner) so I decided to use the left over tortillas to make some pizzas, or what I like to call tortizzas!

I love when I can use stuff I already have in the pantry/fridge/freezer to put a meal together. It makes me feel resourceful. What I like even more is that not all these ingredients came from the kitchen, one of the them came from the garden. Ok, ok, ok I know it was just basil, but this was the first time I grew something and then ate it. I think it was quite and accomplishment. Plus the added ingredient made it possible to make 2 different types of tortizzas. I already had everything I needed to make the garden garlic chicken, but now I could make a margherita with fresh basil, which is way better than the dried I had in the pantry. It was very tasty!

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The Nez Perce Extension office is located in Lapwai, Idaho.

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‘The Starry Night’ by Garip Ay

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.”

 ~ Vincent Van Gogh (from letter no. 155 to his brother Theo, June 1880)

I just came across this remarkable video and had to share it. It shows Turkish artist Garip Ay recreating Vincent Van Gogh’s enchanting The Starry Night on…wait for it…water.

Ay creates his masterpiece using the traditional Turkish method of marbling called ebru’ – in which art is painted on water before being transferred to paper.

In order to make such a feat possible, tragacanth, a natural gum, is added to the water to thicken it and insoluble paints are used.

The piece is just as dreamy and darkly brilliant beneath Ay’s skilled fingers, who then proceeds to create an exquisite portrait of the tormented artist himself.

Check it out!

P.S. Garip Ay has his own blog and YouTube channel if you want to learn more and have a look at his other gorgeous creations.

P.P.S. If you’re passionate about marbled paper, have a look at Italian luxury stationery brand Il Papiro. Their journals are pretty expensive, but you could just do what I do and buy a single sheet of their paper to wrap a generic exercise book in!

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A referendum on electoral reform? EKOS finds the Canadian public evenly split

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Do Canadians think a national referendum on changing the electoral system is necessary?

According to a new poll from EKOS Research, half do and half don’t.

It’s what EKOS President Frank Graves describes as an “almost exactly evenly divided voting population”.

On April 14 and 15, EKOS asked 1,176 Canadians the following question:

Some people say that any change to the electoral system is so fundamental that it would require a national referendum. Others say that a rigorous program of public engagement and Parliamentary review should be sufficient. Which statement is closer to your point of view?

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QP Monday: Surpluses, deficits and dairy farmers

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Lead question and answer

After a one-week break, Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose went full throttle on the government’s handling of the Canadian economy. She said, again, that the Harper government left the Liberals with a “healthy surplus” and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t following their formula of low taxes, balanced budgets and job creation.

“If the prime minister won’t admit basic facts, how can we trust him with our economy?”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was not in QP, as he was in Toronto meeting with Prince Harry to launch the 2017 Invictus Games.

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NEB looks to confidential messaging after whistle-blower review

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The National Energy Board wants to know whether end-to-end encryption and other communication techniques can help restore trust in its whistleblower program.

The federal oil and gas regulator issued a request for information Friday for software that could ensure confidential and anonymous communication between a ‘tipster’ in the industry and the board’s safety officials.

End-to-end encryption, such as that used by many e-commerce sites, is a standard practice for the type of communications the NEB would like to use in its new updated whistleblower program, wrote board spokesperson James Stevenson

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TMP: 71 Entire membership TLP:65 , Implementation of GLE, Mentorship, LEAD

Please refer to the LnD plan sheet shared in the audit in SECTION A:

EXAM ANALYSIS based on sensing: =0ArNc7zZyJZWKdGpuV05qdllkUGRpRV9SZ2xoQlVvRGc&us p=drive_web#gid=0 EXCHANGERS: WKeTBERE9hYllQV2s/edit

In every quarter

Members applying for future opportunities, members understanding the value proposition of AIESEC, understanding and implementing GCM, Organizational understanding

NON-EXCHANGERS: WKaHdRSzZZaERXQVk/edit The entire membership was Please refer to the LnD plan sheet shared in the audit in divided into different SECTION A groups: SB mentored by the LCP, MB mentored by the EB and GB mentored by the SB.

Succession planning

Every quarter

110 members

MB Q3 responses yoR2mw8HldFZ4eVhVaFF6Y1liUkMwYklLV2xDVHc&usp=drive _web&rm=full#gid=0. Membership appraisal form: clJkOUp4cXBQeXM/edit Evaluation document: bDJMUGxtNVAweWM/edit Appraisal tracker: 0ArNc7zZyJZWKdGVzVHlNTVl2djlKMV9jWWJneE8wbUE#gid= 0

Need based recruitment

March and July

70 in March and 70 in July

Please refer to the Recruitment report shared in the audit.

Associate membership

July : I GCDP AMs and Udaan AMs(volunteers) (50 volunteers, 30 AMs)

Number of members/ program 24% conversion to TMP/TLP from UDAAN and 10% conversion from AMs

12 members from UDAAN and Please refer to the NSC report attached with the audit. It has the AM tracker as well as the job description. Our website has 3 from the recruited AMs everything wrt engagement plan:!about1/c1s4c AMs converted: ArNc7zZyJZWKdFdBMXVfSHlLOG9rVy01dHg0V2lfOUE#gid=0

Summer as well as winter cycle

14 IXPs

Entire membership

TMP TLP on exchange

Summer cycle.

Very few people 50 were assigned TMP/10TLP since we wanted it to actually enhance an EPâ€™s experience /spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak1bIBv_rRXE dFdFcTdMMmlORlU2ZDVQeG90NDhiL VE&usp=sharing#gid=0

March tracker: preadsheet/ccc?key=0AhMRPiDkrJYdF9Fb1RFYkhIaW1PeTdDd3VLYzB3a 2c&usp=drive_web#gid=3 July-Sept: preadsheet/ccc?key=0AlyI51B50m6dEhoOUFTbjlaRnBRM0N1NjdPX0xLRn c&usp=drive_web#gid=0

Performance report: Performance management process followed in the local chapter Entire year was majorly about intense tracking of the membership’s performance to ensure 100% activity in the LC hence we came up with a structured process. We have come up with this online tracking system where we calculate the weighted score of each member on the basis of OTF and priority, tasks are assigned through a system and are approved. Scores are calculated and then presented. in the form of a sheet with individual scores. This is known as Member Profiling system. Along with their individual profiles, they also have a department as well as every team’s page they are a part off. Every Monday, the EB assigns tasks to the SB/MB/GB and by the end of the week i.e. on Sunday the HR manager of the respective department sit with their VPs and review each member’s tasks assigned vs achieved and hence give a RED, YELLOW or GREEN. The colour coding also depends on the number of LC forums happened vs attended by the member. The ones with 2 consecutive REDs is put on probation/show cause wherein the member is given certain tasks/target to achieve within a timeline decided by VP TM and the respective VP. If the member fails to achieve the target, the member’s membership is terminated. However the idea is to not demotivate the member but to give him/her a push. Hence if the task/target is not achieved then his/her efforts are taken into consideration. In case the member doesn’t perform at all or doesn’t revert back to us within 48hours, then the member’s membership is directly terminated. • MPS MANUAL:

Along with the MPS, we also launched weekly forms so as to ensure effective and efficient tracking of every member irrespective of the portfolio. Also to asses the LCâ€™s mood of the week and LEAD sensing. Weekly HR newsletters were released in the LC with the color coding of each and every member and happiness quotient of the LC for the week along with certain write ups based on the theme of the week to motivate and help the membership depending upon the sensing.

Team Leaders

0-2 Exchanges

5-10 Exchanges 7

10+ Exchanges

% of members in exchange support. How did you track performance of exchange support member and managers 30% of the current membership is doing exchange support. Along with the MPS, weekly forms were released so as to track performance of each and every member with varied job roles. They had to fill their weekly tasks and had to mention how many of them have been achieved by them by the end of the weak since they donâ€™t really have tangible targets due to the nature of their job role. LINK: HU0RWM1Ri1pbFk1RUIwMHFES0E&usp=drive_web#gid=0

Number of team in 2013 (Middle level management) and how many teams achieved 70% of their targets I GCDP: 303/385 (78%) Out of 53 teams, 46 teams achieved 70% of the target which further contributed to the portfolio’s annual targets. 7 teams were not able to achieve their team’s target.

O GCDP: 121/170 (71%) Out of 53 teams, 32 teams achieved 70% of the target which further contributed to the portfolio’s annual targets. 21 teams were not able to achieve their team’s target.

O GIP: 13/25 (52%) Out of 40 teams, 22 teams achieved 70% of the target which further contributed to the portfolio’s annual targets.

18 teams were not able to achieve their team’s target

I GIP: 114/170(67%) Out of 52 teams, 29 teams achieved 70% of the target which further contributed to the portfolio’ annual targets. 23 teams were not able to achieve their team’s target.

2013 program goals v/s achieved ( Mention all 4 Programs)

400 350 300 250

Target Achieved Matches 2014

200 150 100 50 0 iGCDP o GCDP

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