Michigan Tomorrow: Making Government More Cost-effective and Efficient
Colton Clark, fresh out of technical school, was attracted to employment with the Michigan Department of Information Technology (MDIT). He knew of the fast-paced and exciting environment, the excellent training programs and the potential for career advancement. After joining MDIT, Colton received technical and customer-service training during his first six months, established an ongoing training schedule and set his long- term career goals. This employee of tomorrow would be provided with tools he needed to work directly from the field or from his vehicle. And when issues like building power outages would occur, Colton, working with a team, would be able to quickly bring the systems back up, working alongside employees in the field. As a young IT professional, Colton would be engaged and stay with the department for the long term.
Goal Four: Great Workplace Support a high-performance workforce
Government technology is a rapidly-changing landscape. To succeed in serving our agency partners and our customers, we must attract and retain the best technology talent by consistently striving to provide an engaging and stimulating workplace. This includes not only offering employees meaningful work, professional development and expanding career potential, but also pride and a commitment to the work they do.
Strategies
Progress to Date
Workforce: Recruit, retain and recognize a diverse, high-performing technology workforce
Great Workplace IT Action Campaign
Campaign to create an even better workplace and empower Michigan's IT workforce is underway
Workplace: Establish standards and procedures requiring and equipping a high-performance workforce
Awareness Sessions Underway
Over 1,000 employees have participated in awareness sessions to implement the new SUITE program, providing them with the skills necessary to implement this new project development methodology
Over 1,000 employees participated in Enterprise Architecture awareness and usage sessions to date
Workforce development: Support, enable and help drive Michigan's IT plan goals and strategies through our IT workforce
Leadership Development Programs
63 new leaders participated in the New Leadership Development Program, launched in 2006 adding value to leadership transition
47 employees participated in the Informal Leadership Program. providing immediate application of skills to current roles
Vision and Values: Support a culture where employees take pride and responsibility for delivering exceptional service
Participate in Annual MI-360 Evaluation
Managers and employees take part in the annual MI-360
feedback program
Strategies
Initiatives in Motion
Workforce: Recruit, retain and recognize a diverse, high-performing technology workforce
Human Capital Management and Service
Enhancing HR programs and processes for a more effective, engaged workforce by addressing professional development and job alignment with skills and interests
Workplace: Establish standards and procedures requiring and equipping a high-performance workforce
Great Workplace IT Action Campaign
Establishing a long-term, department-wide, effort to make MDIT an even better place to work and empower employees; creating an action team of frontline IT staff to identify and prioritize issues/needs, suggest, implement and measure solutions
Leader and Employee Development
Cultivating customized professional development for informal, new,
established, strategic and executive leaders
Developing young talent by reaching out to establishments of higher education to recruit students and creating specialized opportunities for current MDIT students
Workforce development: Support, enable and help drive Michigan's IT plan goals and strategies through our IT workforce
Succession Planning
Identifying trends and projections for employee departure for continuity of operations and working with program areas to help develop plans to meet future needs
Vision and Values: Support a culture where employees take pride and responsibility for delivering exceptional service
Vision and Values Initiative
Coordinating with the Governor's Values Awareness, Alignment and Performance Management initiative; providing guidance in aligning employee values, interests and skills with statewide vision and values
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