These tutorials will assist you to know, understand and apply ReadAct to any leadership, management, decision making or problem solving effort.

ReadAct Desired Outcomes (the target you want in constant view.)  To keep a clear and thorough picture of Desired Outcomes in view, you, the user, must specify them.

Desired Outcomes may be expressed as Goals, Purposes, Objectives, Vision Statements, To Do Lists, Want Lists, Wish Lists, and many other forms. Most such formulations benefit from clarity, specificity, completeness, and being recorded, tracked, and evaluated in a meaningful way.

To guarantee completeness you must address four quadrants of Desired Outcomes.  Any formulation which fails to address all four quadrants will suffer from "things falling through the proverbial crack."

The four essential quadrants of criteria categories are:

Success / Achievement

Support / Teamwork

Economy / Ecology

Productivity / Satisfaction

Using ReadAct requires you to specify clearly how you measure each of these.

Success / Achievement may be measured by win-lose, gain-loss, completed or not, credential earned or not, alive or dead, goal attained or not, ongoing performance to a standard, or many other forms of measure of success and achievement.

Support / Teamwork may be measured by levels of involvement and participation, attitudes, willingness to perform, extra effort under stresses of time and schedule, sacrifices made to build the team, and many other forms of measure of support and teamwork.

Economy / Ecology may be measured by the appropriateness of fit between resources needed and resources provided with a view to the long term as well as short term sustainability of the effort.  Budgets, schedules, inventories, on time delivery coordination, waste reduction, pollution control, environmental impact assessments and many other accounting and auditing forms measure economy and ecology.

Productivity / Satisfaction may be measured by the appropriateness of fit of people resources to the enterprise.  Organizations tend to measure and monitor productivity.  Individuals tend to measure and perceive levels of satisfaction.  They are two sides of the same coin.  People who are overused or underused in the process of attaining desired outcomes, or are ill prepared, ill trained or ill managed are less likely to be productive or satisfied.