On-Boarding and Retaining New and Experienced Government Staff Training Workshop V

Overview:   Hiring federal employees was never an easy process, and so it is especially frustrating to both line managers and HR offices when a new hire might leave after just a year or two. In today’s budget environment, with hard or soft hiring freezes, and early out and buyouts becoming ever more common, it is especially important that once a job offer has been accepted that the hiring manager be able to retain the new hire for a reasonable period of time. With fewer people around to perform the agency’s mission, the mission can be jeopardized, or at least the work unit’s performance may be threatened, by even one ill-timed departure.  There is also the growing risk that once a position becomes vacant, the organization may lose the FTE, as the agency’s Budget Office is ever more likely to “sweep up” vacant slots to better manage FTE and their associated personnel compensation and benefits budgets across the agency.

The workshop will explore best practices in onboarding and retaining federal employees, especially in a budget constrained environment.

What You Will Learn: 

• How to effectively manage the new hire’s transition into the workforce
• What works and what is challenging about OPM’s Pathways programs
• How to keep engagement and enthusiasm high during the critical first few months and beyond
• How to teach supervisors to deal effectively with the attitudes and workplace values of Millennials and Gen Xs, as well as Boomers and Traditionalists
• What a smart supervisor does to retain staff
• What agency policies can be implemented to improve onboarding and retention of staff
• How to keep your employees who are at their peak of productivity from retiring or simply quitting before you are ready to replace them
• Strategies for retaining your best and your highest potential talent
• How to manage budgets cuts without losing the staff you most want to keep

Why You Should Attend: 

• You can’t afford to spend time and energy replacing people you just hired
• You need to keep your new hires engaged to make your organization productive
• If you lose the person, you may lose the FTE and the salary budget associated with it
• If you are going to accomplish your mission in this budget-constrained environment, you need to figure out how to retain your most productive talent

Who Should Attend: 

• Managers facing unacceptable attrition rates for newly hired employees
• Managers whose best talent is close to retirement
• Managers who have the chance to staff up due to reorganizations or new organizational responsibilities, and who don’t want to lose energy and opportunity due to staff churn
• Chief Human Capital Officers
• Chief Financial Officers
• Performance Improvement Officers
• Chief Information Officers