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Cultivate a Diverse Volunteer or SME Program
Diversity and inclusion has long been a buzzword across all sectors of society and especially professional organizations. More recently, it’s left the realm of a feel good policy HR policy and now is accepted as an essential approach to improve outcomes.

The Value of Tracking Soft Skills
Everyone knows the value of ensuring that you have the proper hard skills and qualifications for your upcoming work group, but ensuring that you have the proper soft skills may be the way to get the most out of your SMEs, Volunteers, or Membership!

Making the most of your SME data with Surpass and Lineup
Surpass and Lineup have been working in collaboration to explore the additional benefits that can be gained from using the two platforms in combination with each other, connecting the data via APIs to capture the most comprehensive and useful information about your SME performance.

Create an Optimal Volunteer Application – Ask the Right Questions
Lineup’s Application feature, you can gather and compile information from your volunteers quickly and easily. An Application is simply a customizable form you can set up to solicit whatever information you need. The information you can gather in Applications has many potential uses, including vetting new volunteer applicants, determining volunteer suitability for specific tasks, maintaining

Simple and effective ways to improve your exam workshops
Exam maintenance workshops are the life blood of any exam. I’ve worked with many different SME programs from organizations that are employing just a few dozen SMEs to thousands of SMEs. After calls with so many organizations to discuss their programs, I’ve compiled a few simple tips for how you can improve your item writing workshops and in time improve your entire SME program and produce better outcomes.