Wednesday, September 10, 2014

 

I have a new role as Director of Communications. This responsibility will require that I focus on two areas: internal communications and external communications. I created this role with the intention of advancing our organization into a best-in-class company. From my perspective, a best-in-class company must focus on professionalization. I have clear ideas on what steps we must take to professionalize our organization, and today I outlined those steps for each Director that reports to the COO. The first step will be to write out clearly-defined job descriptions for each of the six directors. To provide an example, I wrote out the role of the Director of Communications. It includes a brief narrative of the position, followed with a bullet-point list of responsibilities. Then it provides a reporting, or accountability metric that will guide productivity during the quarter and outside of the quarter, as well a reporting mechanism to document progress throughout each week. Finally, the role description provides guidelines by which the COO can hold each director responsible during quarterly performance reviews. After outlining the performance of the role description, I provided each director with a template and asked that they go through the process of writing out their role. Once they completed that task, the next step, I explained, would be to write a description for each subordinate within each director’s department. We set a goal of completing those role descriptions by the end of September. Once those we complete those descriptions, we will turn our attention to writing the policy manuals and procedures for each task. This exercise, I’m convinced, will allow us to achieve higher levels of efficiencies as we all strive to pursue excellence in our roles. My responsibilities have become much more clearly defined with today’s meeting, and my work load has increased in a big way. I welcome the challenge.

 

Days since my release from prison: 394

Miles that I ran today: 8.18

Miles that I ran so far this week: 23.36

Miles that I’ve run during the month of September: 59.07

Miles that I ran so far in 2014: 1,770.06

Miles that I need to run in order to reach my annual goal of 2,400 miles: 629.94

Miles I’m ahead of schedule to reach my 2,400-mile goal by the end of 2014: 101.28

My weight for today: 168