Features and Benefits of GoalTutor™

Video-mini lectures with PowerPoint slides

  • Allows you to repeat the presentation as many times as you like.
  • Makes it easier to understand if English is not your first language or measurement is a difficult concept to master.

Supports multiple learning styles

Learn more quickly and provide training to more kinds of learners:

  • PowerPoint slides provide visual summaries of key points
  • Audio soundtrack provides detailed explanations of concepts
  • Workbook provides written summaries of concepts as well as hands-on practice and application
  • Example measurement idea database provides thousands of example goals to emulate

eLearning format

  • Provides a cost-effective way to reach your entire organization
  • Provides a quick way to roll out training, on your servers or ZPG's

QuickMeasures™ database of performance measures

  • Improves quality of goals in less time
  • Borrowing and modifying others' ideas is both faster and easier than creating from scratch

Practical how-to steps

  • No ivory-tower theories, just nuts-and-bolts how-to instructions you can immediately apply

Employees can draft their own goals

  • Improve employee buy-in and quality of the goals written 

Handles hard-to-measure, subjective work

  • ZPG's goal-setting techniques give you a way to make the subjective more measureable and objective
  • You'll be able to measure any kind of work — even hard-to-measure white collar and team work

Results-based

  • Your customers want results and GoalTutor™ uses results as the starting point for all performance measurement
  • Helps you to avoid emphasizing activities that don't add value to your customers

Customer-focused

  • The goal-setting process uses each position's customers as a key starting point for creating a list of measureable results.
  • This insures that all measures and goals will be customer-focused

Jack Zigon as presenter

  • Jack has been teaching this subject for over 24 years so he's polished, concise and very clear
  • You'll find the explanations easy to follow and easy to put to immediate use

Award-winning workbook

  • GoalTutor's workbook, How to Measure Employee Performance has won two national awards for excellence from the International Society for Performance Improvement including the 1997 Outstanding Instructional Communication award (ISPI)
  • The content is Information Mapped™ for ease of use and quick reference
  • Worksheets guide your efforts and break the process into easy-to-do chunks
  • List of common errors with solutions helps you avoid others' mistakes and improve your own goals
  • Self-evaluation criteria make you a more self-sufficient learner
  • Job aids summarize key points for as a memory aid after the training
  • Available in PDF format for easy portability or printing to paper

GoalTutor™ leads to improved employee performance

  • Measurable goals and the concrete feedback they allow have been shown to improve employee performance and morale in company after company
  • GoalTutor™ will help you create verifiable goals and a feedback system for any position

Useful for managers, employees and trainers

  • Managers improve a skill vital to their success: defining and communicating clear expectations
  • Employees can learn to draft goals for themselves, increasing buy-in, saving valuable manager/supervisor time and making them more self-managing
  • Trainers learn how to help others set measurable goals

Low price = high value

  • Less expensive than a live workshop with zero travel expenses
  • Let's you provide goal-setting training to employees as well as managers for maximum buy-in and organization-wide impact

Internet for dial-up and high speed connections

  • Easy to use from home, hotel rooms or on high-speed corporate connections
  • The video has been optimized for both connections

Web-based

  • Easy to integrate into your HR intranet
  • Quick updates
  • Easy to customize with organization-specific examples
  • Low cost-per-employee

Browser viewable

  • No need for employees to install or learn a new piece of software
  • If you can use Internet Explorer, you can use GoalTutor!

Licensing available

  • Purchase a license to put GoalTutor™ on your intranet behind the firewall and security systems you trust

Customizable

  • Change the language to fit your performance management system and corporate language
  • Add company-specific examples to make it easier for employees to use and build consistency

Use with or without classroom training

  • Use alone to reach the self-motivated learners
  • Combine with trained facilitators: GoalTutor™ helps users draft goals and the facilitators answer questions, give feedback and encouragement
  • Use during classroom training to allow GoalTutor™ to be the on-screen presenter with the trainer providing feedback and encouragement
  • Use after classroom training as a refresher

Purchase GoalTutor™ on CDROM or Internet subscription. Not ready to buy? Get more information or view the free GoalTutor™ Demo.