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Dual reporting grants greater flexibility, more complete employee performance history

Shelley Moore — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:00:01 +0000

As of this week BLOOM® gives even greater flexibility to its users — this time in the form of dual reporting.

Within the BLOOM® system, the human resource department can assign an employee a primary and a secondary supervisor. Each manager’s personal portal gives them access to the employee’s information, and each can add notes, enter goals, and contribute to performance reviews.

When the employee logs in and reviews past performance reviews and other items the managers have approved, he or she is able to see the feedback entered by both managers.

This latest update extends the ability for organizations to adapt BLOOM® to meet their needs and to better track and monitor employee performance.

BLOOM® is a web-based, fully-integrated performance management system that supports individuals and working teams. BLOOM® was developed by Insight Strategic Concepts® Inc. For more information contact Julie Warner Miccichi, Director of Business Development, at julie@insightsc.com or 574.970.1322.

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New Features: Employee Goals and Personal Notes Dashboard

Michael Connelly — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:48:41 +0000

Our latest BLOOM feature brings some updates to the Employee Goals section and a new Notes dashboard area.

EMPLOYEE GOALS

ADD YOUR OWN GOAL: BLOOM users with Manager or Executive level access can now add edit/add/delete their own Employee Goals.

MARK GOAL NOTES AS READ

We have had the ability to add goal notes, but it sure you would be nice to know if you actually read the note. Now you can simply click the MARK NOTE AS READ LINK under the Goal note. This lets you and your manager know that you are paying attention to the goal.

ONE STOP NOTE SHOPPING

Now that you can mark a goal note and a performance log note as read, BLOOM makes it easy for you to see those new notes rise to the surface so you can read/mark them off!

BLOOM DASHBOARD

If you have any outstanding notes, you will see them on the dashboard.u will also see the same results on the MYSELF homepage, as well as a link on the top called UNREAD NOTES.

MYSELF NOTES DASHBOARD

When you click on the above links, it brings you to a personal note center where all your undread notes are in one spot. Simply click the MARK NOTE AS READ link to update!

And that is all for this update! Happy BLOOMing!

New Features : July 3rd, 2009

Michael Connelly — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:18:56 +0000

NEW SERVER!

With all the growth we have been experiencing, it was time to upgrade our web servers! Thank you for your support!

PERFORMANCE LOGS

A user suggested it would be great to see if a manager had posted a performance log and if the employee could see it on their dashboard, and then tell BLOOM that they have read it. Problem solved.

STEP 1:

Manager inputs a new performance log.

STEP 2:

Your dashboard will show a note saying you have X New Logs that are unread.

BLOOM Dashboard - Performance Log Notification

Step 3:

After you click on the X New logs link, you will see your log overview page – from here you can easily mark the log as read and it will no longer show up on your dashboard!

BLOOM Employee Performance Logs Overview Screen

BLOOM offline for Server Upgrade – July 3rd, 2009

Michael Connelly — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:37:41 +0000

As we continue to grow, we needed to upgrade our web server systems. Since most businesses will be closed for the holiday weekend, we will be doing major hardware upgrades to BLOOM.

BLOOM will be offline for hardware upgrades on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 6 AM.

We will be back online same day, and will be 100% ready to roll for your use on Monday July 6th.

If you experience any problems or broken links, please email your specific problem and error message to support@bloomware.com.

New Server Testing almost complete!

Michael Connelly — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:45:19 +0000

BLOOM is growing and we thought it best to move up to bigger server sooner than later!

We are in the final stages of testing out our new server. We will be migrating BLOOM the week of 4th of July.

Stay tuned for updates on planned downtimes for late next week!

Michael

BLOOM Development