Page 14 - Sept/Oct 2020 Outdoor Oklahoma Magazine

GOAL 2: Strengthen a Dedicated, Talent-
Rich Fish and Wildlife Agency. JENA DONNELL/ODWC

• Rewarding Excellence: This team was tasked with evalu-
ating compensation packages and employee duties. The
team developed six recommendations to update pay pol-
icies and review employee pay grades and pay scales.

• Listening for Change: This team focused on encour-
aging more and better communication within and
between divisions and settled on an option to replace
the central information storage and sharing platform
(aka the Intranet). The team successfully developed
and launched a new hub for information sharing
called the Terminal of All Data (TOAD), a name select-
ed through an all-employee naming contest. TOAD will
include forms, documents and links to applications
often used by employees.
• Removing Paper Obstacles: This team sought to stream-
line paperwork so employees can spend more time
working on what matters most. The team identified all • Building a Team Culture: This team focused on holding
of the paper processes in the agency and transferred employees accountable to ODWC’s values by incorpo-
three internal forms to electronic processes. The team rating these values into performance evaluations. The
continues to explore paperless solutions for other tasks, team built the agency’s values into the evaluation pro-
including timesheets and electronic signatures. cess and launched a revised form for the 2020 cycle of
employee evaluations.
• Attracting Top Talent: This team focused on reviewing
job descriptions and requirements to ensure the agency • Leading With Purpose: This team focused on how to estab-
gets the best new employees. The team reviewed, updat- lish agency leaders that are equipped and expected to
ed, and standardized all job descriptions, as well as wrote lead by example. The team developed a basic framework
an addendum to job announcements that offers more for a multi-level approach to leadership development and
details about the Department, its mission and goals. held training for upper management to understand how
to manage change during a strategic planning process.
DARRIN HILL/ODWC GOAL 3: Manage Money and Services to
Our Fullest Potential.

• Aiming for the Target: This team was tasked with iden-
tifying agency program goals and how to evaluate them
for performance. The team developed a two-step pro-
gram evaluation tool: the first step focused on having
program leads identify goals and metrics, and the second
step focused on evaluation of stated goals and metrics.

COREY JAGER/ODWC

12 OUTDOOR OKLAHOMA

OutdoorOK-2020-September-October.indd 12 8/19/20 3:14 PM
8/19/20 3:14 PM
OutdoorOK-2020-September-October.indd 12