Summit on Workforce: Building a Government Workforce for the Future

This is an invitation-only event, open to Public Sector only. For more information or to request an invitation, please contact Jeremy Smith.

Local and state governments employ over 19 million workers – a staggering 15 percent of America’s jobs. While this number has remained stable since the Great Recession, the competition for talent has increased as job markets tighten in the private sector. Public sector leaders face the challenge of attracting a highly-skilled workforce and keeping them to serve the ever-increasing needs of a 21st century constituency. Outdated civil service systems, reduced pensions and uncertain health care benefits, a lack of flexibility and access to the latest technology, increased job mobility among the youngest workers, and limited advancement opportunities mean human resource managers are looking to transform their culture while filling their positions. Future forecasts of an impending economic recession may also detract from recruiting workers to government.

This Summit will convene those state and local leaders who have found success in creating a culture that embraces their employees as the most important factor in service delivery. Learn from agency secretaries, chief learning officers, and human resource directors on how they have tackled civil service reform, provided flexible hours and telecommuting, invested in leadership development and training for retention and advancement, prioritized a diverse and inclusive work environment and filled even specialized positions with highly qualified candidates.

Proposed Session Titles:

• Winning the Jobs War: The Competition for Talent
• What are the Benefits of Benefits?
• The Skills Gap for the Public Sector: Developing the Labor Pool for Qualified Open Jobs
• A Radar Instead of a Compass: How Data Can Help HR Departments Fulfill their Goals
• Just Ask: Using Employee Surveys to Foster Engagement and Retention
• Succeeding at Succession Planning: Learn from the Private Sector
• Work/Life Balance: Creating a New Culture in the Public Sector
• The Alternative Workplace for the Public Sector: Changing Where and How People Work
• Civil Service Reform: Technology Based Hiring Reform and Performance & Professional Development Resources
• Using Technology to Modernize the Hiring Process