Quadrant 2 day

The organization I work for has some very innovative ideas about organizational structure; we have "teams" instead of departments and there is no clear definitive hierarchy of power between individuals, but there is kind of hierarchy among the teams (i.e. the leadership team versus the management team). With this organizational management thinking comes the belief that all employees should spend at least one day out the year thinking/brainstorming on how the organization as a whole or the team you are a part can be improved. So, after being an intern for a year I was given the opportunity take a Quadrant 2 day (this is based on a time management model and Quadrant 2 is a high value/low time importance type activity).

I decided to spend my day outside and disconnected from the internet, the phone, and the television; and so I took a note pad and pen and went to a park by my apartment. There I began to think about how we (CPM) could provide a more comprehensive service to our clients; namely by helping them develop the performance management side that would enable communities to develop a strategic plan that have performance goals and targets embedded (as opposed to developing a strategic plan first and then searching for measures to fit the plan).