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

This event qualifies for .7 CEUs

This event qualifies for 7 CPEs

This event qualifies for 7 CLPs

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

Format:

Lecture, small group discussion, panel discussion, federal executive guest speakers

Speaker and Presenter Information

**Additional Speakers to be announced shortly**

Guest Speakers:

Sondra Kahawaii

Manager

Partnership for Public Service

Sondra assists a broad audience of government leaders, providing agency services to help them use their Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® data to positively impact workforce satisfaction and commitment, improve recruitment and retention and drive performance. Additionally, Sondra contributes to the Partnership’s Ready to Govern program aimed at helping political appointees prepare to effectively lead their agencies. Sondra graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from Brigham Young University-Hawaii and later went on to earn a Master’s degree in Public Administration with an emphasis in Nonprofit Organization and Management from the Marriott School of Management. She completed her Juris Doctorate from the J. Reuben Clark School of Law in 2013.

Instructors:

Scott J. Cameron

Director, Strategic Programs,

Tuknik Government Services

(Former Appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary

Department of Interior and

Chief Human Capital Officer, E-Government Executive and

on the Executive Committee of the interagency Chief Acquisition Officers Council)

Scott J. Cameron, Director of Strategic Development at Tuknik Government Services (TGS), has 37 years of experience working inside and around the federal government. TGS is one of a family of companies under the umbrella of Koniag, Inc., an Alaska Native Corporation government consulting firm. Scott has worked in both houses of Congress, in the Executive Office of the President, as a career civil servant and as a political appointee, working deep in the bureaucracy and in the Office of the Secretary of a cabinet department. He has consulted with federal agencies on management issues working for both large and small businesses, and worked to influence the federal government as a state government employee, corporate government relations executive, and as an executive in a non-profit organization. In November 2015, he became a local government elected official, being elected as a Director of the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District, serving Fairfax County’s 1.2 million people.

Scott is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, has been designated a Strategic Advisor to Government Executives (SAGE) by the Partnership for Public Service, and also has written a column on government human capital management issues for HR News, the publication of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources.

Prior to entering consulting, Scott was a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of the Interior. There he served as Chief Human Capital Officer, E-Government Executive, had the lead on strategic planning and performance management, and was a member of the Executive Committee of the interagency Chief Acquisition Officers Council. He also directed two of OMB’s government wide E-Gov projects; Geospatial One Stop and Recreation One Stop.

Before joining Interior, Scott established the global government relations function of CHEP. CHEP is the global leader in materials handling, with business in 38 countries.

Previously, Scott represented Governor Pete Wilson of California in Washington, D.C., working with Congress and federal agencies on environmental, energy, and natural resource policy issues.

Before entering state government, Scott was Director of Conservation Policy at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, managing all of this congressionally chartered non-profit’s Congressional relations activity.

Earlier, Scott was Deputy Chief of the Interior Branch at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), part of the Executive Office of the President. He served as the program examiner for the US Geological Survey and US Fish and Wildlife Service. Earlier at OMB, he oversaw the EPA’s Office of Water and the Office of Research and Development.

From 1985 to 1989, Scott worked as a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Chic Hecht (R‑NV), handling all the energy, environmental, and natural resource issues for the Senator.

Scott began his career as a Presidential Management Intern in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, after earning a BA in biology from Dartmouth College, and an MBA from Cornell University, with a concentration in natural resource economics.

He was raised in New York City, is married, and has a son and two cats.

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