Present:  Mary Backus, Mike Roy, Shel Sax, Carol Peddie and Doreen Bernier
Absent: Simpkins, Norris

Tim Spears was scheduled to join the group and discuss the staff survey results, as he and Mike have done with all workgroups within LIS.  Because not all AD team members were available for today’s meeting, Tim decided that he will instead join the ADs at a future meeting, when everyone is available.

The shortened meeting was then dedicated to handling administrative tasks revolving around scheduling the optional all LIS staff meetings and preparing agendas for our monthly managers and regular all-staff meetings.

• February 9th – Manager’s meeting – staff survey themes, debrief
• February 15th All staff meeting will be rescheduled for March 2nd when Tim Spears will discuss staff survey themes.
• February 17th – Optional All Staff meeting – eBooks with Terry Simpkins and Rebekah Irwin (more info to follow)
• March 16 – Optional All Staff meeting – Alison Byerly will discuss digital humanities, (more info to follow)
• March 30 – Possible In-Service Day – more info to follow
• April 6 – Optional All Staff meeting – Chris Norris will address disaster recovery (more info to follow)

We had a brief discussion on the approval/implementation process for Service Level Agreements.

Thanks for reading,

Doreen & Terry

Present:  Mike Roy, Carol Peddie, Chris Norris, Mary Backus, Shel Sax, Terry Simpkins, Doreen Bernier. Guest: Fred Schmitt

Fred Schmitt joined us to discuss team training sessions.  Though we haven’t finalized the dates for training yet, Fred suggested Fridays during the HR-sponsored management training program.  Fred will also be working with the SLT.  We discussed questions such as the duration of Team membership, how we can create time in the day for Team work, and whether we should routinely revisit Team membership as Teams complete their charges. Mike will be sending out an email to LIS requesting input and suggestions for agenda items for these new training sessions.

We are about to start the annual performance evaluation process.  The timeline is as follows:

• Self-evaluations and Team 360 evaluations are due to managers by 2/17
• Managers need to make recommendations to their director by 2/29 – please note: this is a firm deadline
• SLT will discuss and identify staff exceeding expectations during the 3/1 weekly meeting, and communicate back to managers by 3/5
• Managers should meet with staff between 3/6-3/23.  Please do not begin meeting until after the directors have confirmed the managers recommendations regarding performance rating.
• Forms should be signed by staff and manager and returned to the director by 3/23.
• All evaluations will be delivered to HR by 3/31

We followed with a detailed discussion about the MSLive/Google evaluation, which will be continued at next week’s meeting.  We need to clarify the features we want to evaluate/compare, and receive feedback from managers/workgroups about involving staff in the process.evaluation.

Draft agenda for 1/26

• Liaison expectations for non-RCS liaisons (carried over from 1/19)
• Additional evaluation questions
• Google/MSLive continued
• Preview of upcoming discussion of on College strategic planning

Draft agenda for Feb. 2

• Tim Spears will join @ 11:00 am discuss the employee survey
• Set agendas for managers and all staff meetings
• SLAs – process for approval/implementation
• Calendar review
• Feb 1: LIS in-service day planning team formed
• Feb:15: Applications from workgroups for LIS interns due to LIS administration

Thanks for reading

Terry & Doreen

Present:  Mary Backus, Terry Simpkins, Chris Norris, Ian Burke and Doreen Bernier
Absent: Carol, Mike, Shel

Ian Burke joined our attenuated meeting to discuss the change management proposal for the Sophos antivirus project. Continue reading →

Present:  Mike Roy, Terry Simpkins, Mary Backus, Shel Sax, Chris Norris and Doreen Bernier.
Absent but not forgotten:  Carol Peddie

We began by setting agendas for the upcoming Managers, All Staff, and SLT meetings in January. Continue reading →