At the Department of Labor We're Using our Strategic Plan to Manage. No, Really.

Labor has taken a government strategic plan from its traditional home—the shelf—and moved it to center of the desk.

How can a strategic plan become a springboard to directly manage the operations of a federal department or agency in a way that increases the likelihood of achieving the organization's goals? At the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), we have adopted a systematic approach to assess our progress in the implementation of our fiscal year (FY) 2011-2016 strategic plan to f