Numerous factors and influences converged in the making of PositiveWare. One of the most significant is the entrepreneurial coaching program called Strategic Coach®. Founded by Dan Sullivan and Babs Smith in Toronto in 1982, the program has grown to offer a variety of coaching, and knowledge products geared to entrepreneurs, and executives of entrepreneurial firms.

In response to your comments, we have dramatically improved the Plan tab in the application. Now you can see at a glance your cascade of plans, and their associated actions.

We have reduced the entire sum of corporate activity into two concepts, Plan and Action.

From Wiktionary.org: Plan: a set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

A plan typically consists of multiple actions by multiple people over a longer timeframe such as a quarter or a month. An action is typically an individual activity done by one person in a shorter timeframe such as a few days or a week.

For more information, log into PositiveWare at https://app.positiveware.com and click on View Past Trainings and see the training dated 10/12/2005.

One of the benefits of being a user of an online application is that the application can be changed quickly in response to customer feedback. At PositiveWare we have minor releases every few weeks. In order to make these releases as helpful as possible we are publishing inline training at the same time.

Every time you log in to the system the application will check to see if you have seen the newest inline training, and present the training, if appropriate. Once you have seen the training you can check a box to make sure that it is not presented to you again.

To see old training offerings, go the My PositiveWare page and click on the View Past Trainings link in the Support section. All old trainings are shown there.

PositiveWare, a Web-based, employee performance management solution, has committed to exhibiting at the 2006 Colorado Human Resources Association Human Resources Conference, ?Vision, Voice and Value in HR? to be held January 18, 2006 at the Pepsi Center in Denver.

Many of our users ask us an obvious question: Why can't I use PositiveWare inside Outlook? Enough of you asked, so now PositiveWare can be accessed directly from Outlook. PositiveWare pages can now be displayed directly within Outlook as another view, similar to the way a user would switch between Mail and Calendar view in Outlook already.

Recently, we responded to user requests for a simpler way to create and manage actions in the PositiveWare system. Now, by filling in a few fields and clicking a button, most users have everything they need to track the most important activity that is being done. However, some users wanted to be able to go a step further, and for some types of activity, actually put a numerical measurement on what is being accomplished. In addition, they wanted to be able to indicate how much progress is being made toward the target goal.

With our next release of PositiveWare, users will have the option to create and track progress against numerical measures on actions.

We appreciate all your suggestions, and would ask that you send additional feedback and ideas to support@positiveware.com.