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Update Your Mailing Address for W-2's

If you will be returning home for the summer, graduating, or otherwise leaving the University, don't forget to update your home address in the FASIS Self Service Portal. Any time you switch residences, including student housing, you need to update your address on file with Human Resources. This is important to ensure future tax documents, including your year-end W-2 form, and other necessary communications reach you. To update your address, log onto https://nupa.northwestern.edu and navigate to: My Personal Information > Update My Home Address. Click the pencil "edit" icon next to your current address to edit it, and save your changes.

NOTE: Address changes on SES do not automatically change your FASIS address. The FASIS change must be done separately.

You must edit your address before you leave the University.  Once your job ends, you can no longer access the Self Service Portal to make address changes.  If you are leaving Northwestern, you should also add a personal email address in the Self Service Portal.  This ensures that Payroll can contact you regarding next year's W-2 even after your NU email is expired.

NOTE TO ADMINISTRATORS

1. Terminating Temporary Employees

As the academic year draws to a close, please ensure that temporary employees in your department who will not work at the University during Summer 2015 are terminated from employement.  The employees' job records can be terminated in FASIS Production by administrative users with access to the Temp Panel.  When the Temp Panel is open for editing, navigate to: /Workforce Administration/Job Information/Maintain Job Information-Temps/Temp Panel.

Terminating these employees will help prevent unapproved/unauthorized payments to the individual and help the University remain in compliance with the Affordable Care Act.  Any temporary employees who return to your department this fall may be rehired upon their return.  

2. Cognos PED By HR Department Now Live

We are pleased to announce that the new Payroll Expense Distribution (PED) Report by HR Department/ Employee has been released in the Cognos/BI Reporting Tool!  This new report, equivalent to the NWPAY013 in Vista, joins the existing PED by Chart of Accounts that has been available in Cognos since last spring.  Users with an existing FASIS Admin ID and current access to Vista or Cognos PED reports have automatically received access to the new PED by Employee.  Any new user must submit a security form, as is standard practice, to obtain initial access to FASIS Admin and Cognos PED reports.

Questions regarding the Cognos tool or understanding the PED data may be directed to the FASIS helpdesk at 7-4800 or fasishelp@northwestern.edu. 

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Why is Differentiating Performance Important?

 As the merit increase and performance management processes for staff are occurring throughout the organization, important conversations between employees and their managers are taking place.  These discussions typically revolve around an employee's performance, the corresponding salary increase, and goals and development opportunities for the next year.

Benefits of Differentiating Performance:

• Differentiation communicates to employees 'where they stand,' in relation to their individual goals, other employees, and within the organization;
• This strategy recognizes and assists in the retention of key talent;
• We send the right messages to those performing at the highest levels;
• Employees are inspired to greater creativity and productivity;
• Our process provides sound rationale for merit increases, promotions, and other employment actions;
• Performance rating inflation is potentially reduced; and
• Fully adopting this strategy becomes a safeguard against reluctance to identify poor performers.

Just as it is critical to have an understanding of the benefits associated with differentiating performance, there are inherent risks associated with not differentiating performance.

Risks of Not Differentiating Performance:

• Employees don't receive necessary feedback, and may not have clarity on how their performance is valued;
• Top performers may become discouraged and come to believe that hard work doesn't matter;
• Low performers may not be aware of where their performance needs improvement and, therefore, are not able to address their development areas;
• Employees who do not perform to their potential can affect the performance of the entire team; and
• The organization's achievement potential may not be optimized.

For more information regarding the linkage between performance differentiation and the merit process, please contact your supervisor/manager or the Compensation Consultant that supports your area.

The Northwestern University Learning & Organization Development (L&OD) team collaborates with faculty and staff who want to develop their talent and advance their workplace outcomes, processes, and engagement. L&OD provides consulting, coaching, workshops, retreats, and tools for individuals, groups, and organizations.

Upcoming Workshops

Registration is now open for June, July, and August workshops. Check your mailbox for our summer catalog or view the catalog online to see what's coming up. New Summer Workshops! 

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Visit our website for more information about NorthWEstern WILL Initiatives - CONNECT to Professional Development and Engagement. Funding for these initiatives is provided by the Catalyst Workgroup.

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L&OD offers a variety of workshops and additional opportunities to help improve workplace performance. Check them out!

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Questions? Comments? Contact the L&OD team at workplace-learning@northwestern.edu or 847-467-5081