11/10/2017

Leadership Summit - Employee Safety Team
Summit team tackles employee-safety recognition upgrade
A cornerstone ITD value is to safeguard and promote the safety of employees. One of the most popular Leadership Summit teams was brought together specifically to move the needle on the department's employee safety recognition efforts. They also had to contend with a serious curveball halfway through the process.
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Division of Aeronautics
Division of Aeronautics delivers fourth annual Safety Standdown
Several years ago, the Idaho Division of Aeronautics made a commitment to boost the department's safety culture, along with a pledge to decrease aviation accidents and fatalities. A cornerstone to that strategy was the unveiling of a statewide training for pilots, called a safety standdown. The latest rendition of the event was held Oct. 28 in Boise.
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Employee Development
New ITD Talent Management System "TalentED" launches Nov. 13
Last month, Chief Human Resource Officer Brenda Williams sent out a department-wide email announcing several upcoming programs driven by Human Resources and aimed at helping you in your professional development here at ITD. The new Performance Hub launches Monday.
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Leadership Summit - DRI Squad 6 Team
Team works to standardize workflow for District Record Inspectors
One problem addressed at the recent Leadership Summit was to streamline the job processes of the Records Inspectors in each district and standardize their workflow so that each district could perform their main tasks in the same way.
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Idaho Transportation Board
Employee honors, rest areas, and 129,000-lb. truck routes highlight Nov. 16 Idaho Transportation Board meeting
Employee service awards, 129k-lb. truck routes, a new rest area concept, and purchase of a replacement aircraft will highlight the Nov. 16 meeting of the Idaho Transportation Board in Boise.
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Leadership Summit - Team "What's in a Name?"
File-naming conventions standardized at summit
Every user of ProjectWise has eventually been confronted with the guessing game of finding the right report and guessing at what name that file would have. Was the draft saved under the Design folder? Or is it in Preliminary Design Review? Is it the PDF labeled 013018_v1.0 or is it the PDF labeled 012817_vfinal?
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DES - Innovation
Seeding, vegetation portion of construction projects streamlined
Every year, the last step for hundreds of ITD construction projects is re-vegetation. The problem is that too often that part of a project is ignored or marginalized, leading to unsuccessful plantings or seedings. Cathy Ford, John Ingram and John Bilderback recently took steps to change that.
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