BUILDING AN ENGAGED WORKFORCE

The Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® rankings offer the most comprehensive assessment of how federal employees view their jobs and workplaces. The rankings and accompanying data amplify employee voices and reveal the most pressing organizational issues undermining agency effectiveness.

But the rankings don’t just identify problems—they

serve as the foundation for solutions. Federal leaders

use the rankings as a roadmap to better manage our

government’s most important asset: its people.

Best-in-class organizations understand that an

engaged workforce leads to enhanced performance.

Over the past three years, the Best Places to

Work data show a 4.6-point increase in employee

engagement across government. This steady increase

follows a concerted effort by federal agencies to invest

in initiatives that improve working conditions and

strengthen their workforce.

Maintaining this momentum will require a strong

commitment from federal leaders to improve the

employee experience. Our suite of services has helped

agencies cultivate a workforce that is more engaged

and productive—and we can do the same for yours.

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT ROADMAP FOUR ACTIONS TO DRIVE CHANGE

Unlock your agency’s data

Bring employees into the conversation

Invest in your leaders

Change the workplace culture

UNLOCK YOUR AGENCY’S DATA

ENHANCED DATA ANALYSIS

The annual Best Places to Work rankings provide a wealth of data on how federal employees perceive their workplaces, including effective leadership, pay, teamwork and work-life balance. For this data to be most useful, you need to turn the insights into action. Our experienced data analysts can evaluate your survey data using Partnership-developed tools and techniques to pinpoint the key issues affecting employee engagement.

BRING EMPLOYEES INTO THE CONVERSATION

FOCUS GROUPS, PULSE SURVEYS

Analyzing your Best Places to Work data helps you understand what workforce issues you’re having—but to better understand why those issues persist, you must gather ongoing feedback. The Partnership administers pulse surveys and facilitates employee focus groups to provide organizations with deeper insight into employee pain points. As a neutral third party, we can help your workforce and leadership collaborate to uncover ideas to improve employee engagement.

INVEST IN YOUR LEADERS

Leadership is the primary driver of employee satisfaction and commit-ment. By investing in short- and long-term development opportunities for your mid- and senior-level leaders, you will empower those with the greatest influence in your organization to transform and enhance the experience of each individual employee.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Participants in our leadership development programs come away with the skills needed to inspire confidence in their teams and motivate employees to perform at their best. We offer a variety of open-enrollment and custom programs, including the Excellence in Government Fellows program, to develop innovative federal leaders who can drive organizational change, achieve results and deliver on their agencies’ missions.

GROUP COACHING

These sessions are ideal opportunities for small groups of leaders to address shared employee engagement challenges and develop solutions under the guidance of an experienced coach. They learn techniques to immediately apply with their teams, develop solutions and hold each other accountable for action.

LEADERSHIP RETREATS

These retreats afford leaders the opportunity to consider successes and challenges in the current workforce environment, align themselves around a collective agenda, and develop a strategy to get there.

CHANGE THE WORKPLACE CULTURE

To create a more engaging and energetic workforce, you need to ensure leaders, managers and supervisors have the skills and knowl-edge to implement agency-wide change. These offerings are designed to provide the structure and guidance to engage employees and dem-onstrate the organizational commitment to workforce satisfaction.

ENGAGEMENT AMBASSADORS

This intensive three-day course helps your agency develop a dedicated cohort of leaders responsible for spearheading engagement efforts. Participants will learn how to use the Best Places to Work data to inform organizational priorities, create plans for action, facilitate conversations around change and evaluate their efforts.

BUILDING A CULTURE OF ENGAGEMENT

In a series of three 90-minute sessions, online or in-person, frontline supervisors and managers learn how to boost employee satisfaction. Participants take away low- and no-cost strategies to use appreciation, communication and empowerment to enhance morale and improve the workforce culture.

MASTERING ACTION PLANNING

Our two-day training empowers leaders to develop a plan of action to improve employee engagement throughout the agency.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about employee engagement offerings, contact:

Michelle Amante Director of Agency Outreach and Business Development Partnership for Public Service mamante@ourpublicservice.org (202) 775-2742

8.8The Partnership’s employee engagement work with the Department of Labor helped increase the agency’s Best Places to Work score by 8.8 points from 2012 to 2017.

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For more information about employee engagement offerings, contact:

Michelle Amante Director of Agency Outreach and Business Development Partnership for Public Service mamante@ourpublicservice.org (202) 775-2742