"What Have They Done For You Lately?"

Merits4U™ KEEPS SCORE.  

 
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Get more Effort and Cooperation from your Group!

Merits4U™ is a Performance Appraisal Tool 
Managers, Supervisors and other Group Leaders can use to 
help motivate Group Members and evaluate Group Performance.

Merits4U™ uses Merit Scores to tell the story.  
A running score is kept of each Member’s Merits, Demerits, and Rewards.  
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Merits4U MERIT SCORE

A Plus Score means the Member has accumulated 
Merit Points and deserves a reward.

A Minus Score means the Member has participated in 
rule-breaking activities or received unearned rewards.
Member owes Group Meritorious Activity as payment.  

No Score means a Member has only done his job - 
no more no less - and deserves no special recognition. 
Group Leaders can quickly compare scores, see who deserves 
the choice assignments and have documentation to back it up.  

Built For Fast-Paced Environments.
Only a few Clicks Records Merits, dMerits and Rewards!

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Use Merit Scores To Track and Encourage Meritorious Activity

Managers, Supervisors, Teachers, Parents, Group Leaders Of All Kinds.

Your success as a Group Leader depends on how well you can 
motivate group members to perform.  
Unless you get people to do what you want when you want it, 
you're going to be labeled a poor manager. 

Positive-reinforcement for productive behavior is the 
proven method for improving performance. 

Behavioral Psychologist suggest a simple graph or count sheet to 
record baseline measures and to keep track of improvement. 
Merits4U™ makes it simple with a running Merit Score.

 Merits4U™ gives you a fair and impartial way for dispensing assignments and rewards as reinforcement for productive behavior. 

How can you possibly be fair, without a way to keep track of 
what your Group Members, Family and Friends have done for you lately?

Merits4U™ is a fairness tool. 
It helps deserving Group Members get the Recognition 
that motivates the Effort and Cooperation that makes a group successful.  

Merits4U™ is for the Leader who wants to maximize human performance in his group.

Setup for Merits4U™ takes only three steps.  

Step 1) List activities that will be considered Meritorious  
(above and beyond the Member’s job description) 
Give each activity a point value. 
(I suggest points based on hours saved or hours donated by Member.)  

Step 2) Lay Down The Law!  
List activities that are not permitted and the 
point deduction for each infraction. 

Step 3) Create Rewards 
(which can be choice assignments) that can be 
earned for a Positive Merit Score.

Once you load Merits4U™ with your Merits, Demerits and Rewards, 
it only takes a few clicks to assign points. You can instantly see the number 
of times a Member has participated - or not participated, in a listed activity 
by day, week or month. Print full reports for any time period.

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WHO’S AHEAD?  

Are the Rewards going to Group Members who do the least 
because they have been around the longest?  
Are the Group Members who do the most, getting their fair share?  

Use Merits4U™ To KEEP SCORE

 Leaders are only as fair as their memory allows - and,
 they remember best, what was done most recently.

 Merits4U™ gives you a tool to document Member activity 
with a score card to help maintain fairness.

Merits4U™  is a no-hassle way to 
recognize who your best Group Members are.  

Set up Merits4U™ for your specific operation.  

 
Develop Standards to assign Merit, Demerit and Reward Points. 
You will need standards for proof of activity like; receipts for Car Washing Merits, 
supervisor sign-off for Overtime Merits, etc. - whatever you set as a standard 
to prove the activity took place.  When the standard has been met, 
the points can be issued - you have fairness all around.

Run your performance appraisal program privately for a time, before 
informing your Group Members.  That way, you get a baseline for 
where you stand now in Member effort and cooperation.

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If you can identify a behavior or activity that you want credit for or, want to give credit for… 
Merits4U™ lets you document that behavior or activity to prove how many times 
it did or did not take place.  

If you want documentation to prove that you deserve a reward
for meritorious activity... You need Merits4U™. 

If you want to distribute rewards based on merit to workers,
family and friends...You need Merits4U™.

 Merits4U™  has other uses.  It includes a Photo Profile module to keep a photo record of 
Merit Group Members. The Photo Profile has a one-click phone dialer and color photos 
can be printed along with profile information.

 Merits4U™  also has a messaging center where messages can be emailed, faxed or printed to a single person, a Merit Group or everyone in your system. Great for sending 
Invitations, Commendations, Recommendations, etc.

 Merits4U™  is a software project in progress. Bells and whistles will be added but 
if you want a tool to prove your point, it’s ready right now.

 Merits4U™  was created because I lost an expected reward when someone did something more recently than I.  What the person did equated to a couple hours of work. But because it was the most recent activity it outweighed the dozens of hours I had invested over the previous weeks. 
It was a case of “What have you done for me lately?”

 Having not kept track of my “meritorious activities” (above and beyond my 
job description), I could not prove how badly I was being shafted 
so, lo and behold, the inspiration for Merits4U™.

 Merits4U™  can handle multiple Merit Groups so it can be used for business 
and personal performance appraisal.

 Merits4U™  is based on very simple principles of behavior management. 
To change any good or bad behavior you must identify and measure the amount of the 
activity that takes place.  Then, provide positive-reinforcement for the 
activity that you want to continue.

 I wrote several articles on Behavior Management including a Worker Motivation plan 
published in Services Magazine May 1994  I was trained in Behavior Management by 
Behavioral Systems Inc, a company owned by football great, Fran Tarkenton. 
I have 15 years software development experience - all of which gave me the 
background to produce Merits4U™. 

Merits4U™  is in the Beta User stages. If Merits4U™  is useful to you, you can support it by registering the software now while in Beta Development for only $139.95 for Commercial Registration and 
$29.99 for the Family & Friends Version.

Beta Development Supporters will have the opportunity to have their ideas built into 
future versions and will get life-of-the-product free upgrades. 

Merit4U™ Is "In-House Quality" Software  

In-House Quality means, User Interfaces are designed to be functional, 
not as slick and pretty as off-the-shelf software. 

Merits4U™ meets the specifications Clients for custom-built, in-house software ask for; 
To work reasonably free of bugs - be upgradeable when and where necessary. 

 Thanks for your attention,  
Curtis MJ
Merits4U™ Developer

Contact Email: curtismj@Merits4U.com

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QUICK START

 Step 1 Assign Merit Points to activities that aid the Group and dMerit Points to prohibited activities.

  Step 2 Develop Merit Rewards to offer as incentive for Group Members that reach the required score.

 Step 3 Use Merits4U™ 
to document Member activity.  Performance can be tracked by day week or month.

 Step 4 Share the program with your Group Members for active participation in earning Merit Points and Rewards.  

FREE Email Support

Merits4U™
Includes many goodies like; 
multiple photos per Member record,  one click phone dialer, fax, email and more. 
Use Merits4U for Group Contacts 
as well as Merit Appraisal.

 WORKS FOR FAMILY, FRIEND AND PERSONAL  PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL ALSO!

Try Merits4U™ 21-Days FREE!  

Register Beta Version!
Only $139.95 Commercial Version 
(Single User)
$29.95 for Family $ Friends. 
Get your input built into the next VERSION and
FREE Upgrades For The Life Of The Product.
 

Merits4U™ Rules!

MERITS & dMERITS 
1.  A Merit Activity is one that helps the Group but is not part of the Group Members Job Description.

2.  A Merit Activity is scored based on one point per hour and the maximum points for one Merit activity is 10.

3.  A Job Description Task unperformed is a dMerit.

4.  All prohibited activities are also dMerits.

5.  The Maximum dMerits for one instance are 40. - Equivalent to docking a Member 40 hours of Merits. If more dMerits are deserved, the situation probably calls for more discipline than this program can hand out.

SENIORITY EDGE
6. One point for each year of seniority can be added to the Group Members total score for whatever time period is being considered (Optional)

REWARDS  
7.  Two types of rewards should be available: 1) Rewards anyone can receive if they reach the required points – like a fast-food lunch.  2) One-of-a-kind rewards that can be chosen by the Member with the most points for the period covered – like a choice assignment.

 8.  The most important rule is, all the above rules can be changed by the User.  

Merits4U™
A Whim of The Wiz Production
A Desktop Magic Design
Copyright 2003-2010 Curtis MJ

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