The president’s management agenda provides a long-term vision for rebuilding public trust in government by tackling systemic barriers to reform, including an ineffective personnel management system and outdated technology infrastructure. The goals are threefold: deliver on agency missions, provide superior service to the public, and eliminate waste.

Experienced Human Capital Executives and Leadership Experts will share their insight and experience in developing and implementing long and short-term workforce management practices that will achieve implementing the PMA vision and develop the next generation of Federal government leaders.

This workshop will provide you with practical, easy to implement tools and resources to help your agency develop an innovative performance based employee experience and create a strategy that brings on the right talent with the right skills, empowers and engages employees, align skills and competencies with mission requirements and modernize your workplace for the digital age while understanding how best to improve performance, increase accountability and enhance mission efficacy.

The workshop will also address methods and lessons learned to help agencies improve agency Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Scores.

Date
Location
Willard Intercontinental Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington 20004 United States
See map: Google Maps
washington.intercontinental.com
Metro Center (Red, Orange, Blue Lines). Use the exit marked “12th & F Sts” to exit onto F St., then continue straight two blocks and cross 14th St.
What You Will Learn
  • Adopt promising practices that drive positive outcomes by leveraging the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Results into actionable steps to cultivate an inclusive, high-performing culture designed to retain top talent and maximize employee potential and performance 
  • Identify the competencies needed as a successful supervisor to maximize employee performance and engagement in the modern workplace
  • Optimize your strategy for recruiting, hiring, training and rewarding the Future Federal Workforce by bringing in the next generation of workers and retaining top talent; training (and retraining) personnel to forecast for future mission requirements, develop leaders across all levels of the organization and to enhance performance across the organization.
  • Build your toolkit for cultivating an inclusive culture of engagement and accountability designed to achieve enhanced organizational and individual performance
  • Identify best practices from other agencies who have improved their FEVS Scores and are leveraging strategies to enhance the customer experience through creation of an effective employee experience
  • Achieving Cross Agency Priority goals by leveraging shared services as a force multiplier
Why You Should Attend

Experienced Human Capital Executives and Leadership Experts will share their insight and experience in developing and implementing long and short-term workforce management practices that will achieve implementing the PMA vision and develop the next generation of Federal government leaders.

This workshop will provide you with practical, easy to implement tools and resources to help your agency develop an innovative workforce engagement strategy that brings on the right talent with the right skills, empowers employees, align skills and competencies with mission requirements and modernize your workplace for the digital age while understanding how best to improve performance, increase accountability and enhance mission efficacy.

The workshop will also address methods and lessons learned to help agencies  improve agency Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Scores.

Format
Instructor Presentations, Classroom Discussions, and Guest Speakers
Agenda

Agenda Subject to Change
 

7:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

Welcome and Introduction
 

Art Chantker, President, Potomac Forum

8:45 am

Modernizing a Performance Based Culture for a 21st Century Engaged Workplace

 

Technology is reinvigorating the transparency and accountability of the performance appraisal process by eliminating the paperwork headache that has distracted agencies from focusing on improving performance discussions and planning. Learn how OPM is helping agencies streamline and modernize the performance management process through best practices in employee engagement, performance accountability and automation.

 

-Rebecca Ayers, PhD, Performance Management Solutions, United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 

9:30 am

Morning Panel Discussion: Developing a Mission Centric Customer Focus with a Premier Employee Experience

 

In this session, participants will learn:

  • How to design and implement a supportive employee experience focused on driving a customer focus mission 
  • Accountability strategies for leveraging assessment tools that help workforce planning efforts, job-fit and enhanced engagement and retention
  • Understand the intersection of the customer and employee experience

 

Moderated by: Mika J. Cross, Federal Workplace Expert

 

Speakers:

 

-Connie Doyle, Director of Customer Experience Management, Enterprise Services, US. Department of Commerce

 

- Erica Roberts, Former DOL Customer Experience Director and Training Director and President, XisPossible 


-Darryl Peek, Former Director of Digital Innovation at DHS, Senior Manager Public Sector, Salesforce

10:30 am

Refreshment Break

10:45 am

The Power of Engagement

This session will expose participants to practical ways to identify gaps in engagement; shape the leadership experience and serve as a catalyst for increasing engagement within your organizations. You will learn:

 

  • Theoretical and practical areas of engagement
  • How to move from “buzzword” to action in your agency
  • The power of enhancing your leadership brand

 

-Treva Smith, Federal Senior Executive, Career and Business Etiquette Consultant

United States Intelligence Community

12:00 pm

Hosted Working Luncheon

1:00 pm

21st Century Skills for Public Service Leaders 

-Jason Briefel, Executive Director, Senior Executives Association (SEA)

1:45 pm

Human Capital Innovations for the Future Federal Workplace

 

A panel of highly regarded human capital and leadership experts will discuss their collective experience, lessons learned and highlights to help agencies:

  • Understand promising people practices needed to affect long-term change,
  • Hear next practices on how agencies are modernizing IT systems and leveraging shared services as a force multiplier;
  • Consider the critical elements for creating effective short and long-term plans that overcome challenges to a culture of performance and accountability
  • Learn about the most innovative practices in leadership career development

 
Moderator: Mika Cross, Federal Workplace Expert

 

 -Ann Conyers, Human Resources Director, Chief Management Office, U.S. Department of Defense
 

-Peter Hosutt, Deputy Director, Civilian Human Resources Agency, U.S. Department of the Army

2:45 pm

Refreshment Break

3:00 pm

Action Planning Toolkit for Effective Employee Engagement

 

As part of the President’s Management Agenda, employee engagement is a priority for positively impacting organizational performance.  You will learn about the resources available in a toolkit developed by OPM’s Employee Services and Human Resources Solutions to help agencies improve FEVS Employee Engagement Index (EEI) scores. Participants will also:

         Gain insights from FEVS survey results

         Understand how to plan and initiate action for engagement improvement

         Learn to manage change while enhancing employee experience and engagement

 

-Andrea Zappone, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, HR Strategy and Evaluation Solutions

4:00 pm

Future Proofing the 21st Century Federal Workforce

-          Modernizing inclusive hiring practices

-          How Agencies can move from best practices to next practices in performance management

-          Creating a culture of empowerment for engaged leaders
 

-Mika J. Cross, Federal Workplace Expert 

4:30 pm

Final Q&A/Final Remarks/Workshop Adjourns

 

Registration Information
  Early Bird Registration Fee Registering after November 15, 2019
Government Employees:
(Federal, State or Local Government Issued ID)
 $795 
Special Reduced Rates in Support of Government Budget Reductions
$895
Team Rate for Government: Send a government team to learn together. Register two government employees from the same office at the same time and the third person registers at $200 discount of the current government rate.

Registration Includes: Presentations, Workshop Notebook, Continental Breakfast, All Day Refreshments and Hosted Luncheon

Keynote Speaker
Cancellation Policy

Confirmed registrations who cancel within 3 business days of the program will be subject to a $250 cancellation fee. Registrations cancelled after the program starts are subject to the full registration fee. Substitutions can be made at any time. In the event a particular training workshop is cancelled, the liability of Potomac Forum, Ltd is limited to refund of any prepaid registration fee.

Who Should Attend
  • Federal supervisors and managers
  • Federal HR Executives, managers and staff
  • Anyone responsible for implementing Customer Experience and Employee Experience strategy
  • Federal employees and members of employee affinity groups
  • Communications practitioners responsible for leading change management and internal communications campaigns
  • IGs and Staff
  • Industry Partners who support the government
Highlight

Morning Keynote:

Rebecca Ayers, PhD 

Performance Management Solutions
United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Afternoon Keynote:

Jason Briefel
Executive Director

Senior Executives Association (SEA)

Speakers:

Connie Doyle
Director of Customer Experience Management, Enterprise Services

U.S. Department of Commerce 

 

Peter Hosutt

Deputy Director

Civilian Human Resources Agency

U.S. Department of the Army 

 

Treva Smith 
Federal Senior Executive 
Career and Business Etiquette Consultant 
United States Intelligence Community 

 

Ann Conyers
Human Resources Director

Chief Management Office

U.S. Department of Defense 

 

Darryl Peek

Former Director of Digital Innovation at DHS

Senior Manager Public Sector 

Salesforce 

 

Erica Roberts 
Former DOL Customer Experience Director and Training Director

President

XisPossible 

 

Mika J. Cross

Federal Workplace Expert

Subtitle
Modernizing performance management remains one of the biggest challenges that agencies face. As a key component of the President’s Management Agenda, it is integral to understand how best to improve the performance of the Federal workforce and increase workforce engagement to achieve future mission success and enhance the customer experience while achieving workforce planning requirements in the modern, mobile workplace.