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2013 Biennium Commissioner’s Office Goals and Objectives

Commissioner’s Office

Goal #1: Live, breath, walk, and talk the core values of the Department.
  • Customer Focus
    • Making decisions based on what is best for internal and external customers, within the legal parameters of laws and regulations.
    • Inviting customer participation to better understand their needs.
  • Individual Responsibility
    • Taking individual responsibility for performance, attitude, professionalism, and communication.
    • Working effectively and productively in teams and partnerships and taking responsibility for each individual’s role in developing and maintaining healthy relationships and business partners.
    • Seeking training, tools and information needed to perform the job.
    • Looking for ways to improve customer satisfaction.
    • Accepting responsibility and accountability before acting.
    • Creating a culture of safety.
  • Individual Growth
    • Freely sharing knowledge and opportunities for development.
    • Committing resources for staff development.
    • Recognizing individual strengths and valuing how they contribute to the whole.
    • Looking creatively at solutions to enhance staff performance at all levels.
  • Ethics in the Workplace
    • Displaying and encouraging trust, mutual support, respect for others and honesty.
    • Does not engage in nor tolerate mean-spirited behavior.
  • Continuous Improvement
    • Continually questioning the "why" and "how" of performing specific job duties.
    • Including all stakeholders that may be affected by any change or improvement being considered.
    • When appropriate, using data and a structured method to make decisions.
Objective: The department’s core values are measured through an annual performance appraisal, which includes a midyear evaluation due no later than March 31st and a final evaluation due June 30th.

Commissioner’s Office of Information Technology

Goal #1: Provide quality, innovative technology to better serve our internal department customers.
Objective:
  1. Provide technical support that meets the internal customers’ requirements while adhering to Department and Enterprise standards and policy.
  2. Provide technical assistance/guidance for effectively interacting with advancing technologies for continuing development of efficient delivery systems to the external customer.

Commissioner’s Office of Human Resources

Goal #1: Successfully facilitate the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements for the two bargaining units within the agency.
Objective:
  1. Reach an agreement with MPEA bargaining unit by October 1, 2011.
  2. Reach agreement with the Hearings Officers and Mediators bargaining unit by October 1, 2011.