{"id":2792,"date":"2011-09-13T18:48:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T23:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2011-09-13T18:48:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T23:48:21","slug":"strategic-priorities-of-usps-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/09\/13\/strategic-priorities-of-usps-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"STRATEGIC PRIORITIES OF USPS DRIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/USPS-News2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2793\" title=\"USPS News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/USPS-News2-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>KICKING INTO GEAR<br \/>\nSTRATEGIC PRIORITIES OF DRIVE, PART TWO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service\u2019s high-level initiative to review and improve the organization\u2019s business management practices \u2014 \u201cDelivering Results, Innovation, Value and Efficiency\u201d (DRIVE) \u2014 is guided by eight strategic priorities. An <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/09\/usps-wants-to-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier article<\/a> outlined the first four.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining four priorities also play an important role in the overall effort and include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robust Stakeholder Management. The goal of this priority is to deepen relationships with stakeholders to improve communications and coordination with legislative and regulatory audiences. Deeper stakeholder relationships also will improve the customer experience and continue development of USPS sustainability efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Robust Employee Engagement. This priority will strengthen talent development, recruiting, retention, overall employee engagement and the impact an educated, well-trained work force has on relationships with stakeholders.<\/li>\n<li>Financial Capabilities and Cash Management. This priority focuses on cost and revenue reporting to improve management decisions, cut costs and increase revenue.<\/li>\n<li>Executive Transparency. The goal of this priority is to improve the consistency, speed, and effectiveness of decision making and also strengthen coordination among USPS senior managers by developing a cross-functional calendar and tracking for major events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2011\/drive_090611.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> (PDF) to learn more about DRIVE and its portfolio of initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KICKING INTO GEAR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES OF DRIVE, PART TWO The Postal Service\u2019s high-level initiative to review and improve the organization\u2019s business management practices \u2014 \u201cDelivering Results, Innovation, Value and Efficiency\u201d (DRIVE) \u2014 is guided by eight strategic priorities. An earlier article outlined the first four. The remaining four priorities also play an important role in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}