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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.

Cultivating a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
Diversity is critical for any organization. Building a diverse talent pool gives organizations new perspectives and allows for broader idea sharing. But really, what is diversity? When many think of diversity, they often think that is has something to do with race or gender, which isn’t entirely what diversity is. Diversity is significantly broader and can be broken down in two categories.

Building Diverse Teams: Your Recipe for Success
While it’s easy to acknowledge that diversity impacts outcome, strategically building diverse teams is anything but simple unless you have the right tool. Most organizations don’t have an easy way to capture information about their talent pool, much less maintain it in an easily-accessible central repository.