Employee Engagement - Improving Agency Rankings on the Best Places to Work List and Your Agency FEVS Scores Training Workshop

This event qualifies for 7 CPEs

The White House set a goal of raising the government wide engagement score to 67% by the 2016 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.

This workshop is designed to help Federal leaders understand how to effectively cultivate a culture of engagement that connects each employee to the mission of their organization through engagement and excellence in order to lead to higher organizational performance, employee empowerment and an effective performance based culture.

Presentations, panel discussions and interactive exercises will help supervisors, managers and practitioners understand how to utilize best practices in workforce engagement to achieve greater outcomes for the public and ensure their Federal employees are working in productive environments.

What You Will Learn:

How to operationalize the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) drivers of engagement on a tactical level;
Performance conversations and tactics for creating a flexible, modern, performance based culture;
Proven communications strategies from Federal Agencies who will help you understand what’s needed to implement effective internal campaigns and implement ongoing performance conversations on an individual basis to drive cultural transformation at all levels of the organization.

Why You Should Attend:

Learn proven strategies from Federal Agencies who have improved their FEVS scores year after year;
Understand how to interpret your FEVS scores in order to design effective action plans that enable you to measure engagement throughout the year and how to build a performance based culture;
Build your toolkit for creating a customized employee engagement strategy in your own organizations that will sustain and improve your FEVS scores year after year.

Who Should Attend:

Federal supervisors and managers who care about fostering engaged teams at the local level
Federal HR practitioners; Chief Learning Officers, and anyone responsible for employee engagement and FEVS survey action planning;
Communications practitioners responsible for leading internal communications campaigns.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Keynote Speaker:

Chelsa Gurkin
Assistant Director, Strategic Issues,
Government Accountability Office
(Co-Author - GAO Report to Congress FEDERAL WORKFORCE Preliminary Observations on Strengthening Employee Engagement During Challenging Times GAO-15-529T: Released: Apr 16, 2015)

Guest Speakers:

Rebecca Ayers
Manager for Performance Management Solutions (PMS),
U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Jeffrey Neal
Senior Vice President,
ICF International
(former Chief Human Capital Officer, Department of Homeland Security)

David Dye
Director of Federal Human Capital Services,
Deloitte

Jason Briefel
Interim President,
Senior Executive Association

Mika J. Cross
Federal Workplace Expert

Michael Lawyer
Special Assistant to the Chief Human Capital Officer,
Department of Housing and Urban Development

Sydney T. Rose
Chief Human Capital Officer and Director
Human Resources Center
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management
U.S. Department of Labor

Sondra Kahawaii
Manager
Partnership for Public Service
(Insight from the latest Best Places to Work report by the Partnership for Public Service & OPM)

J.Peter Leeds, Ph. D.
Research Psychologist,
U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

Additional Speakers Awaiting Confirmation

Relevant Government Agencies

Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, Intelligence Agencies, DOD & Military, Office of the President (includes OMB), Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Dept of Health & Human Services, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of Housing & Urban Development, Dept of the Interior, Dept of Justice, Dept of Labor, Dept of State, Dept of Transportation, Dept of Treasury, Dept of Veterans Affairs, EPA, GSA, USPS, SSA, NASA, Other Federal Agencies, Legislative Agencies (GAO, GPO, LOC, etc.), Judicial Branch Agencies, State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, CIA, FEMA, Office of Personnel Management, Coast Guard, National Institutes of Health, FAA, Census Bureau, USAID, National Guard Association