HCMG
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Day Two: Nurturing an Empowered & Driven Public Service
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Registration & Breakfast
8:30 am - 8:35 am
Welcome Remarks & Benchmarking
Zainab Hayat -
Program Director,
HCMG 2017
8:35 am - 8:45 am
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
James Miller -
Executive Editor,
Federal News Radio
8:50 am - 9:20 am
Keynote: Leading the 97%: Engaging Your Best Employees
Angela Bailey -
Chief Human Capital Officer,
Department of Homeland Security
If there's one thing government HR management across agencies can agree on, it's that everyone seems to take a lot of interest on poor performers - but what about the majority of your employees who are doing great work? Angela Bailey will share how to:
•Engage the 97% of the workforce doing great work
•Nurturing your best talent to rise within the organization
•Encouraging managers to push for the best out of your best employees
General Session
9:20 am - 9:50 am Panel: Keeping Your Finger on the Pulse of Employee Feedback Joanne Tornow - CHCO & Head, Information & Resource Management, National Science Foundation Ruth Chandler Cook - Director, Workforce Excellence & Engagement, Department of the Treasury James Egbert - Human Capital Strategist, Department of Health & Human ServicesAs agencies invest more time and energy into rethinking employee engagement and rewards, it has become imperative to also keep track of constant employee feedback.
•Effectively conduct more real-time surveys
•Prioritize consistent data collation
•Yielding robust surveys and feedback
General Session
9:50 am - 10:05 am Takeaway: What kind of pulse or employee surveys has your organization found effective?Speaker Hub
9:20 am - 10:05 am Speaker HubHeard an interesting idea from one of the presenters and want to pick their brain a little further? After their presentations and panels, speakers will be available here for more in-depth discussion!
10:05 am - 10:45 am
Morning Refreshment Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
Keynote: Working Together for the Common Good
Peter Shelby -
Assistant Secretary, Human Resources & Administration,
Department of Veterans Affairs
As the newly appointed Asst. Secretary for HR & Administration at the VA, Peter Shelby wants to bring his over 20 years of HR leadership experience to unifying the VA with a common goal of achieving the noble agency mission of improving veteran life. In his talk, Peter will address:
•How do we share and implement best practices?
•How do we eliminate waste and inefficiency?
•What are the core commonalities across government that we can work together to standardize?
Peter Shelby
Assistant Secretary, Human Resources & AdministrationDepartment of Veterans Affairs
General Session
11:10 am - 11:40 am Panel: Nurturing Leaders for Tomorrow’s Mission Critical Needs Karlease Kelly - Chief Learning Officer, Department of Agriculture Sharon Ridings - Chief Learning Officer/National Training Manager, Environmental Protection Agency Aaron Lee - Director, Leadership & Professional Development, Veterans Benefits AdministrationAs the retirement tsunami looms larger and larger, the pressure for capable leadership to take on the ever-changing needs of public service. Join your colleagues to discuss how organizations are:
•Providing opportunities for professional growth to keep employees stimulated
•Emphasizing mentorship and coaching efforts
•Getting non-Millennial leadership to understand changing learning & development methods and needs
Sharon Ridings
Chief Learning Officer/National Training ManagerEnvironmental Protection Agency
General Session
11:40 am - 11:55 am Takeaway: How is your agency looking to retain and nurture the next generation of leadership?Speaker Hub
11:10 am - 11:55 am Speaker HubHeard an interesting idea from one of the presenters and want to pick their brain a little further? After their presentations and panels, speakers will be available here for more in-depth discussion!
11:55 am - 1:05 pm
11th Annual HCMG Awards Luncheon
Track A: Performance Management
1:05 pm - 1:45 pm Panel: The New Era of Federal Performance Management & Employee Accountability Peter Constantine - Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development Samantha Cutler - Director, Workforce Relations, Department of Education Roland Edwards - Deputy CHCO, Department of Homeland SecurityAs leadership focuses on efficient and high-performing agencies, what are Human Capital leaders doing to:
• Improve ways to measure employee performance
• Align annual performance plans with strategic agency plans
• Tying improved performance management strategy to employee engagement
• Building supervisor capabilities in performance management
Peter Constantine
Deputy Chief Human Capital OfficerDepartment of Housing and Urban Development
Track A: Performance Management
1:45 pm - 2:25 pm Workshop: Automating Government Employee Onboarding Doris Wong - CEO, Smart ERPEmployee onboarding is an important part of recruiting and keeping employees. Studies show a positive new-hire experience garners many benefits including increased retention, shortened time to productivity, operational efficiency, and can even help enforce compliance. This workshop will cover automating employee onboarding including:
•Drivers and samples of best practices employee onboarding including pre-boarding
•Government case studies identifying prospective benefits of automating employee onboarding
•Taking participants through some initial steps and processes to automate employee onboarding for their organizations
Track A: Performance Management
2:25 pm - 3:05 pm Workshop: Training Supervisors and Managers for Performance Excellence Joellen Jarrett - Chief Learning Officer, Chief of Organizational Effectiveness, Small Business AdministrationJoellen Jarrett has been working on embedding accountability within the SBA for improved employee performance management. She will share how her team has been:
•Engaging the agency to drive accountability
•Implementing clear, written performance standards and expectations
•Connecting with frontline managers within the organization
•Prepare supervisors to be effective first responders
Joellen Jarrett
Chief Learning Officer, Chief of Organizational EffectivenessSmall Business Administration
Track B: Learning & Development
1:05 pm - 1:45 pm Case Study Interactive: Competencies: the Thread that Binds Glenda Scheiner - Director, Human Capital, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller)Similar to other federal agencies, DoD is required by law to develop functional competencies to use in strategic human capital planning. The DoD financial management (FM) Community followed the Office of Personnel Management's guidance and invested in the development, documentation and periodic revalidation of enterprise-wide FM competencies. Over the past six years, the DoD FM competencies have rewarded that investment by providing the FM workforce an integrated, flexible thread that links and binds the DoD FM workforce development portfolio into a coherent strategic human capital plan for the FM workforce.
Glenda Scheiner
Director, Human CapitalOffice of the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller)
Track B: Learning & Development
1:45 pm - 2:25 pm Workshop: Capturing the Opportunity for Hybrid & Online Learning Darcy Hardy - Associate Vice President, Strategy & Transformation Services, Blackboard Inc. Chad Kainz - Principal Strategist, Strategy & Transformation Services, Blackboard Inc.The learning needs and expectations of today’s workforce have changed. Face-to-face, location-based training is being augmented or replaced by online and hybrid options that provide employees with learning pathways that better fit work schedules, job requirements, and career goals. This workshop will surface ways to capture opportunities to frame, introduce and/or expand hybrid and online learning into training and staff development efforts that move beyond individual courses and toward more holistic employee development that includes elements of competency-based education and career-long learning.
Track B: Learning & Development
2:25 pm - 3:05 pm Case Study Interactive: Revamping Executive Professional Development Joseph Kools - Director, Executive and Organizational Development, Federal Aviation AdministrationHow do you get an executive corps – long on tactical and strategic responsibilities, short on time – to invest in their own professional development when the future of their organization depends on it?
From last year's HCMG award winning team, find out how FAA is revamping the way it reaches executives to not only invest in themselves, but to reinvest what they learned in their organization and employees, so that FAA continues meeting its mission.
Then, you’ll work collaboratively to brainstorm further solutions and share your own experiences to not only attract learners, but solidify the application of their new insights once they return to the workplace!
Joseph Kools
Director, Executive and Organizational DevelopmentFederal Aviation Administration
3:05 pm - 3:45 pm
Afternoon Refreshment Break
3:45 pm - 4:10 pm
Keynote: From Rocket Scientists to Accountants: Connecting with the Workforce for a Culture of Shared Agency Mission
Elizabeth Kolmstetter -
Director, Workforce Engagement Division,
NASA
At NASA, Elizabeth is passionate about finding ways to connect across the enterprise to build a culture of connecting with agency employees. She will share how NASA:
•Demonstrates how employees are its most valuable assets
•Shows that management is listening to employees with meaningful communication
•Focusing on the support jobs and not just frontline staff to build a culture of engagement across the board
•Highlighting success and giving voice to the valuable work done daily
4:10 pm - 4:35 pm
Keynote: Win Employee Buy-In for an Excited Workforce & Great Leaders
Linda Gray -
Director, Human Resources,
Environmental Protection Agency
Across federal government, leadership keeps a keen eye on the Employee Viewpoint Surveys (EVS) , but gaining employee input in how to improve and move forward can go a long way in nurturing a culture of engagement. At the EPA, Linda Gray has been working on getting more employee feedback on initiatives based on EVS scores.
