Partnership for Public Service Events

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Ongoing Events

Annenberg Leadership Seminar Series
With a focus on the practical application of classroom lessons, our two-day Annenberg Leadership Seminars develop participants' leadership skills and help federal agencies build the long-term, in-house capacity to innovate and solve management problems.

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Call to Serve Webinars: Building a Campaign to Promote Federal Service
These free webinars are intended for faculty and staff of Call to Serve member schools. Limited space is available. Registration for each workshop will open within the semester of the webinar. All workshops are subject to change based on registration enrollments.

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Call to Serve Federal Advisor Trainings
The Partnership for Public Service, in collaboration with the National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE), offers a one day interactive professional development training that equips you with the knowledge and resources needed to effectively advise students on the federal job search and application process and build federal service as a brand on your campus.

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Call to Serve Federal Agency Effective Hiring Workshops
The Call to Serve Effective Hiring Workshops are developed and hosted in conjunction with the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to provide practical and innovative human capital knowledge directly to HR Directors, recruiting managers and HR professionals. This is done through presentations, interactive small-group sessions and webinars.  Each year’s workshop series is designed to improve agency hiring practices, build professional capacity and enhance collaboration among Call to Serve member agencies, and ensure government is planning to acquire the right talent in the right ways.

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Graduate School Onboarding Course: Improving Retention Through Strategic Onboarding
While many organizations understand that making a favorable first impression through the recruitment process is immensely important, this good impression is often not reinforced during a new hire’s first year on the job. That’s why it’s critical to adopt a strategic onboarding approach – to make sure you effectively integrate new employees into your organization and equip them to become successful and productive. Through a new course offered by the Partnership for Public Service and the Graduate School, learn to increase retention, build a sense of community with new employees, communicate job procedures more quickly, and how to develop an onboarding model designed around your organization's mission, vision and values. 

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Highlights from Past Events

Report Release - From Data to Decisions: The Power of Analytics
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The Partnership for Public Service, in collaboration with IBM's Public Sector Business Analytics & Optimization practice, set out to study federal agencies' use of analytics and how it helped them achieve better program results. We focused on identifying leading practices that illustrate how data informs decisions and drives meaningful and positive program changes. In particular, we were interested to know how employing good data led to changes in how agencies think about their programs and how it led to programmatic insights that influenced their decisions.

Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® 2011 Rankings Release
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Watch the release of the 2011 Best Places to Work in Federal Government® rankings and top ranked and most improved agency and subcomponent awards featuring Partnership President and CEO Max Stier and Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry. The Best Places to Work rankings are made possible with the generous support of Deloitte Consulting LLC and Hay Group.

 

Report Release - Making Smart Cuts: Lessons from the 1990s Budget Front
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton released Making Smart Cuts: Lessons from the 1990s Budget Front, a report that interviewed more than 30 current and former senior federal officials and government experts, on how federal agencies responded to past budget cuts. Their insights and experiences, presented in the report, are useful for leaders now facing similar challenges, and can assist agencies and members of Congress develop and implement effective strategies as they navigate the difficult path ahead.

 

 

Public Forum- Securing the Future: Management Lessons of 9/11
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Hosted by the Partnership for Public Service with support from Booz Allen Hamilton, the Securing the Future: Management Lessons of 9/11 forum provided a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges faced standing up the Department of Homeland Security and restructuring the Intelligence Community, whether or not the reorganizations have achieved their goal of making America safer and how lessons learned apply to government reorganization efforts underway today.

Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, former CIA Director Michael Hayden, and former U.S. Rep. Jane Harman participated in a public forum on government reform moderated by Richard Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy

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Report Release - A Critical Role at a Critical Time: A Survey of Performance Improvement Officers
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Partnership for Public Service and Grant Thornton LLP released A Critical Role at a Critical Time: A Survey of Performance Improvement Officers, a report that surveyed federal PIOs or their designees at the largest federal agencies. The survey shows how PIOs see their roles and responsibilities. It also gauges their progress in establishing performance cultures and reveals the problems and frustrations PIOs face as they drive change in their agencies.

 

Report Release - Keeping Talent: Strategies for Retaining Valued Federal Employees
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Partnership and Booz Allen Hamilton released Keeping Talent: Strategies for Retaining Valued Federal Employees, a report that examined what makes employees stay with an organization, what retention techniques and tools are currently available to federal human resources professionals and managers, and what they think are the most effective strategies.

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Report Release and Effective Hiring Workshop: Understanding Attrition at Your Agency and Why It Matters
Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Partnership and Booz Allen Hamilton released Beneath the Surface: Understanding Attrition at Your Agency and Why It Matters, a report that provides leaders and workforce planners with an approach for analyzing and understanding their attrition.

The session included a panel discussion about exemplary practices for using attrition analysis, featuring Cher Whitaker, Acting Chief Administrative Officer; GAO Phyllis Brown; Director of Strategic Planning, Research & Analysis, Human Capital Office, IRS; David Tumblin, Workforce Analysis, Research, and Metrics, Office of Human Capital, TSA; and moderated by Ron Sanders, Booz Allen Hamilton.

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Service to America Medals gala
September 15, 2010

The Partnership hosted a black-tie gala in Washington, D.C. to pay tribute to America's most outstanding federal employees. At the dinner and awards ceremony on September 15, the Partnership presented Service to America Medals to eight extraordinary winners.

Meet the winners.

Best Places to Work in the Federal Government Awards Breakfast
September 1, 2010

The Partnership and American University's Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation released the 2010 Best Places to Work rankings, which measure employee satisfaction and are based on a survey of more than 263,000 federal workers at 290 federal agencies and subcomponents.

The Partnership honored the top 10 large, top five small and four most improved Best Places to Work agencies at a Washington, D.C. breakfast. Speakers included: Partnership President and CEO Max Stier; American University's Robert Tobias; and Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin of the Department of the Treasury.

The complete Best Places to Work rankings are available at bestplacestowork.org.

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The Weakest Link: How Strengthening Assessment Leads to Better Federal Hiring
August 26, 2010

The Partnership, in collaboration with PDRI, released a report that examines how agencies are assessing candidates for federal jobs, the barriers to effective assessment and how the process can be improved.

The release event featured a panel discussion on federal applicant assessment with participants: Christine Major, Director of Human Resources, NIH; Brian Costlow, Director of Administration, Department of Energy; and Elizabeth Kolmstetter, Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer, Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Following the presentation, the Partnership held an Effective Hiring Workshop for human resources professionals and hiring managers to discuss how to use assessment to find and hire the best for government.

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Closing the Gap: Seven Obstacles to a First-Class Federal Workforce
August 18, 2010

The Partnership released its report that examines the state of the federal workforce from the perspective of federal chief human capital officers (CHCOs) and human resources leaders.

Closing the Gap is the third report in a series based on in-depth interviews with CHCOs and HR leaders conducted by the Partnership for Public Service and Grant Thornton LLP since 2007.

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Event of Excellence: Accelerating Innovation in Government
July 27, 2010

The Partnership, with support from HP, hosted an event featuring one of government's most innovative leaders, Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology Roger Baker of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Mr. Baker discussed the importance of innovation in government today and how people can innovate from where they are in their organization. Dr. Dave McClure, GSA's Associate Administrator, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, moderated the discussion.

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8th Annual Public Service Career and Internship Fair
July 14, 2010

On Wednesday, July 14, the Partnership for Public Service hosted its largest-ever federal government job fair to promote public service careers among young people – bringing together hundreds of recruiters from 80 federal agencies and thousands of young job-seekers.

Photos: Michael Starghill

Public Service Recognition Week 2010 - Innovation and Opportunity
May 3-9, 2010

This year’s celebration, May 3-9, 2010, recognized innovation and opportunities in public service, sending a powerful message to the American people about the importance of a strong civil service and inspiring a new generation to serve our country.

Video: Dave Braun Film and Video

Service to America Medals Gala
September 23, 2009

The Partnership for Public Service presented nine Service to America Medals to outstanding public servants whose remarkable work is making the world safer, healthier and greener—at a Washington, D.C. gala held in their honor, September 23.

Video: Dave Braun Film and Video

 

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