- What is TIP?
- Installing and Starting TIP
- Getting Acquainted with TIP
The Opening Window
The Help Window
The “About TIP” Window
Editing Windows - Overview
of How to Work with TIP
- How to Make and Modify Job Descriptions
- How to Evaluate Employees
- How to Print from TIP
- How to Exchange Data with Other Software
- When Things Go
Wrong
- Networking
- Keeping your Data Safe and Secure
- Appendix: System Administrator's Guide
Getting Acquainted with TIP
The Opening Window
When you start TIP, it will display its opening window:
Here you will choose what to do. The choices are:
Learn about Performance Management
TIP comes with its own brief training course (About Performance Management) on how to make your employees more effective. Choose this item to view this material.
Work with Job Descriptions
Choose this item if you want to create, edit, view, or print a job description.
Work with Employee Evaluations
Choose this item if you want to evaluate an employee, view or edit an evaluation that you’ve already created, or add notes to an employee’s evaluation at any time.
About TIP
Displays the “About TIP” window, which we’ll get to shortly.
Quit
Just what it says – this is one way to exit from TIP.
The Help Window
The entire time you’re using TIP, you’ll see another window that looks like this:
The message in this window will change to fit whatever you’re doing at the time.
This window never really goes away. When you hide it or close it, it is minimized onto the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, but it doesn’t disappear. To see it again, look at the Windows Taskbar (usually found at the bottom of your screen), and find the button that looks like this:
Simply click on that button to bring the help window back.
Sometimes, when it has something important to tell you, the help window will pop up automatically.
The “About TIP” Window
If you choose About TIP on the opening window, the help window, or elsewhere in the help system, you’ll get a window of information about the current version of TIP, like this:
This information will come in handy if you have a problem with TIP and need to contact us for support. We’ll need to know whether you’re running the latest version of TIP. The other information in this window also tells us something about the way your computer is set up.
Editing Windows
When you tell TIP that you want to work with job descriptions or employee evaluations, you’ll see an editing window that starts out like this...
and then, as you work with data, it will develop into a powerful tool for organizing information, like this:
