Ask the CHCO: Interior’s Mary Pletcher
In case you missed it, last week’s “Ask the CHCO” segment on Federal News Radio featured an interview with Mary Pletcher, the Department of Interior’s Acting Assistant…
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Federal Workforce Trends Not So Scary When You Have a Plan
As GAO reported in its February 2013 High Risk update, agencies must integrate strategic human capital planning with broader organizational strategic planning to develop the talent, skill, and experience mix required to cost- effectively execute mission and program goals. Most critical to the strategic human capital plan is the workforce planning that informs it. Workforce […]
Read MoreEffective Mentoring as Part of Phased Retirement: HR’s Role
Implementing OPM’s Phased Retirement program creates a powerful opportunity for HR to drive value and productivity through an agency mentoring program. Moreover, according to OPM, “the main purpose of Phased Retirement is to enhance the mentoring and training of the employees who will be filling the positions or taking on the duties of more experienced […]
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Forget the Knowledge Management System: Mentoring as Knowledge Transfer
Ah, the perpetual threat of the Federal retirement wave. First, experts predicted it would come down on us like a “tsunami” in 2012. Then it didn’t for reasons described by other experts (including myself). Now it’s expected to “skyrocket” in 2017. The good news is that the Federal Government has time to prepare for the […]
Read MoreBuilding Career Pathing Capabilities: A Federal HR Perspective
The private sector has latched on to Career Pathing like a teenage girl to a Taylor Swift song. McLean & Co defines Career Pathing as “the process of developing an enterprise-wide … competency-based model for possible employee progression within an organization which maps out the requirements for both vertical progression (promotions) as well as lateral […]
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