Creating a Culture of Engagement in Government Training Workshop II

This event qualifies for 7 CPEs

This is an updated Encore Training Workshop based upon a very successful and highly acclaimed Workshop in May 2016. Student rated the Workshop as “Excellent” and requested a repeat workshop to permit additional staff to attend. This updated “Encore” Workshop is scheduled at the request of previous students!

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 practioners involved in FEVS action planning 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 GAO and 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.

Format:

Instructor and Panel Presentations, Classroom Discussions, and Guest Speakers

Speaker and Presenter Information

Guest Speakers:

Mika J. Cross

Director of Strategic Communications, Digital and Public Engagement
U.S. Department of Labor, Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS)

Mika J. Cross is a seasoned Workplace Transformation Strategist specializing in innovative global workplace initiatives, culture change, strategic communications, knowledge management, next generation/future workplace predictions, mobility and flexible work policy, diversity, inclusion and employee engagement. Her 18-year career in public service includes assignments throughout the United States Intelligence Community and across the Federal government. She is a veteran of the Unites States Army, having served as both an enlisted soldier and commissioned officer.

Mika is highly regarded as a thought leader for flexible and transformational workplace practices and is regularly featured as a professional speaker at industry conferences and events. On behalf of the White House and the National Security Council (NSC), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) invited Mika to contribute to the “Workforce of 2020” strategy session as a component of the joint-led task force to develop a new business model for vetting current and future Federal employees into positions of national security. Mika was invited to speak at the House Smart Contracting Caucus roundtable on Telework and Mobility, by Co-Chairmen Gerry Connolly and Rob Wittman. She has also worked in partnership with Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on behalf of the White House Council on Women and Girls and the Federal Women’s Program, to design innovative learning strategies to help align Work/Life, Diversity, Inclusion and Human Resources professionals from across the government to share strategic vision and value for integrating a flexible and supportive workplace.

In 2014, Mika was selected as a President’s Management Council (PMC) Interagency Fellow at OPM and worked on government-wide projects affecting culture and process change. As a component of the President’s Second Term Management Agenda sub-goal on People and Culture, she helped create an online Employee Engagement Community of Practice (eCOP) within OPM’s interactive dashboard (the Unlocking Federal Talent data tool at unlocktalent.gov). The eCOP is targeted for Senior Executive Management to help Federal agencies collect and use data to create a more engaged workplace. She also has led several workforce transformation initiatives resulting in winning the organizations she has worked for numerous industry awards- the most recent being USDA named on the Forbes 500 Best American Workplace rankings in March 2015.

Mika has led the strategic communications and initiatives capability for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and currently does so for the Department of Labor, Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL VETS.) Mika was awarded the Fed50 “Most Inspiring Up-and-Comer” award, the Federal News Radio “Causey Award” as well as a Next Gen Gov public service award. In 2013 she was named a ‘Work-Life Rising Star’ by WorldatWork’s Alliance for Work-Life Progress. She currently serves as Government Chair of the Human Capital Shared Interest Group (HC-SIG) for the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Panel (ACT-IAC) and as a Board member for WorldatWork’s Alliance for Work/life Progress (AWLP.)

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

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

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