Posted on Jan 19, 2017
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The MSAF is undergoing a review and survey to improve the system. They emailed recent users with a survey, but I wanted to add more input separately and decided to ask the RP masses for their opinion.

I will add more detail in the post.
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COL Chief Of Staff   Arng
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This site is an abysmal failure. Working from home or the office, it averages 4 minutes per load per ACTION. Re-attempts are required. And I am required to get GO-level input? The failures of this site prohibit effective input from superiors, peers, or subordinates.

This is an unacceptable waste of government resources and my team's time.
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Ditto!
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The Multi-Source Assessment and Feedback (MSAF) Program was designed to provide leaders with a tool that can be used to help with the development and maintenance of various leadership styles. Through surveying Senior, Peer, and Subordinate members of your sphere, you can get an anonymous assessment of what things are working or not working.

The system has been fraught with problems, including typical miliitary website issues as well as, in my experience, an apparent lack of importance with respondents. The developers have re-worked the website and sent an email to recent users to assess the system through a survey and to provide feedback. I found the simple feedback email survey was limited and replied to the developers that I have much more to add beyond the scope of the survey. They welcomed by additional input.

So, I am seeking more input from other members that I can draw from and compile. My comments will be included anonymously with the results of the feedback survey. Any additional input from fellow RP members will be distilled and included with my email, and will not have any personal information. In other words, I won't say that "SP9 Jones on Rallypoint said that this system blows".

I am going to comment on how the system has been utilized (or not), website access by respondents, and my thoughts on how effective this has been as a leadership tool. Feel free to elaborate on these or any other areas that may be useful
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The MASF system will not load on either my government computer or my personal computer, when people send me requests to provide feedback I am unable to do so; forget being able to actually fill out one for myself. It is a great tool in theory but in its current state it is a giant waste of time. The Army should remove the requirement to use a broken system. The system should be moved to a more reliable server or optimized to increase realibility and speed.
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My school removed the requirement when I was there in Feb. The system was supposed to be revamped by now; sounds like it is not
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