Team Orange,
This issue of OCI highlights several of our award - winning programs. I couldn ’ t be prouder to serve with a team of difference - makers who are continuously striving to be better at what we do. Congratulations and “ thank you ” to those members of Team Orange who developed these programs and to our Communications Team for telling our story. Winning awards on a regular basis is part of the culture of leading communities. I get a chuckle watching Henrico and Chesterfield counties (two high - quality organizations with excellent political and managerial leadership) compete for which locality receives the most service awards. One might argue that it ’ s really the service that matters, not the awards. True! But taking the time to apply forces us to think about what we are trying to do, and how we can make it better. It also spurs competition which gets our creative juices flowing. Now that we are repeat award winners, let ’ s keep this tradition going by making innovation a regular part of our work. To help this effort, we will be starting some strategic planning work over the next few months designed to gather feedback from employees across the organization. Helping each department think about its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and developing plans to address them, will help employees innovate and will be useful to the next Board of Supervisors as they chart a strategic direction for Orange County ’ s next (award - winning!) 10 years. We will be doing this work in addition to our Cultural Initiative that seeks to create an excellent work environment, so employees thrive as they serve.
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