2010 Government Talent Management Summit

General Session:

Reset

Presenter:
Richard Florida, Author, Reset, Professor of Creativity and Business at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

What are the most important emerging trends that will impact the government workforce? Bestselling author and economic development expert Richard Florida provides an engaging and sweeping examination of our current economic crisis distilling the deep forces that shaped our organizations, economies and societies.  Looking toward the future, Florida identifies the patterns that will drive the next Great Reset and simultaneously reshape virtually every aspect of our lives—from how and where we live to how we attract and retain talent to how we invest in individuals and infrastructure, and how we shape our cities and regions. Florida shows how these core elements, when taken together, will spur a fresh era of growth and prosperity, define a new geography of progress, stimulate surprising opportunities for all organizations, and what all these trends mean for human capital professional in government at the federal level.

General Session:

Retaining Top Talent

Moderator:
Michael Flentje, Director, PricewaterhouseCooper, Washington, D.C. Federal Practice

Presenters:
Cynthia M. Rooney, Director, Acquisition Policy, Workforce Development, and Evaluation, Federal Aviation Administration
Lisa Doyle, Chancellor, VA Acquisition Academy, Department of Veterans Affairs
George Tanner, Chief Learning Officer, Department of Homeland Security

How do you ensure the best people make it into leadership positions? Professional development programs can have a significant impact on retention and morale. This panel reveals next best practices from leading government executives who have successfully created career track programs that bring the very best out of their employees.

Key Takeaways:

• Panelists will share their leadership perspective and practical examples to provide
  participants with insights into:
• Federal human capital management trends impacting Agencies' professional development investments.
• Different professional development strategies for addressing key talent needs.
• Key considerations for designing career track programs that enhance leadership or
  functional skills talent pipeline.

Networking Refreshment Break

General Session:

Own the Ground You Walk On

Moderator:
Simone Murray, Partnership Development Manager, Kenexa Government Solutions

Presenters:
Deb Kloeppel, Founder and President, Military Spouse Corporate Career Network

During this highly engaging and interactive session, Deb Kloeppel, President and Founder, Military Spouse Corporate Career Network (MSCCN), will explore the importance of helping families overcome potential challenges and employment hurdles that accompany the military lifestyle. She will discuss how cutting-edge Recruitment Technology from Kenexa® Government Solutions has helped the non-profit organization succeed in helping military families find gainful employment in corporate America. Ms. Kloeppel will also analyze the importance of using the right technology to showcase military spouses as a viable part of the talent pool, highlighting how government agencies can leverage their combined resources into joint services programs to deliver world-class job services to their customers.

Key Takeaways:

• How employers can have personal one-on-one high-touch employment services utilizing talent management applicant tracking systems.
• How to use collaboration as the key to implementing HR business solutions
• How military spouse staying power translates into dedicated and passionate employees

Panel Session:

New Paradigms in Work/Life Balance

Moderator:
Julia McClung, VP, Talent Management Solutions, Vangent

Presenters:
Kim Holden, Asst. Commissioner for Management (Operations), FDA
Captain Ken Barrett, Diversity Director, U.S. Navy
Nancy Kichak, CHCO, Office of Personnel Management

How do you enhance employee performance with work/life programs that meet the demands of a new generation of workers?  Increasingly, young workers expect family-friendly programs, tele-working and a supportive work environment that embraces their worldview of working to live, rather than living to work.  This panel reveals strategies and next best practices from agencies that ranked in the top 20 of the best places to work for work/life balance.

Key Takeaways:

• How to maximize alternative work schedules
• Teleworking success stories
• Best practices in family-friendly leave programs
• How top agencies ranked at the top as the best places to work

Lunch

General Session:

Sustaining a High-Performance Work Force

Moderator:
Lola Harrison, Lockheed

Panelists:
Jody Hudson, Chief Learning Officer, Human Resources Training & Development, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Janet Murphy, Chief Human Capital Officer, FHFA
Nicole Johnson, Associate CHCO, Office of Human Capital Strategic Management, U.S. Treasury
William Milton, Deputy Director, Office of Human Resources Management, Departmental Management USDA

Developing and sustaining a performance-based, results-driven government workforce is the result of setting realistic goals, defining performance measurements, and articulating clear expectations for results. Measurement and evaluation are not separate; performance information to lead, learn and leverage improves outcomes by being complementary. These policies and programs are a win-win for employees and their managers. This panel will reveal how innovation, combined with strong execution based on data-driven efforts, can improve the performance of federal agencies and programs.

Key Takeaways:

• How to link employee performance to an agency’s mission and performance goals
• How to make meaningful distinctions between levels of performance
• Best practices in creating clearly defined expectations and benchmarks

General Session:

Acquiring and Managing Talent in the U.S. Army: A 360* Perspective

Keynote Prsenter:
Lieutenant General Benjamin Freakley, Commanding General of US Army Accessions, U.S. Army

The Army is a role model for best practices when it comes to identifying, inboarding, developing and retaining top talent. A visionary in the human capital arena, Lieutenant General Benjamin Freakley will present a 360 on how to build the best team possible and mobilize it for success.

Chairman's Closing Remarks