Calendar

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

2017 dates coming soon!

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics! Join FELTG in 2016 for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere Supervising Federal Employees: The Skills You Need to Succeed, a 12-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees) targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

2016 dates:

• March 15: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation
• March 29: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I
• April 12: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II
• April 26: Preparing a Performance Case
• May 10: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees
• May 24: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce
• June 7: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO
• June 21: Writing Effective Performance Plans
• July 5: Tackling Leave Issues
• July 19: Preventing and Correcting Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace
• August 2: The Latest on Gender Stereotyping
• August 16: Reasonable Accommodation in 60 Minutes
• August 30: Supervising in a Unionized Environment

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2017! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2017 dates:

March 7: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline

March 21: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action

April 4: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability

April 18: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards

May 2: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents

May 16: Leading and Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership 

May 30: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan

June 13: What Supervisors Should Know about EEO: Overview of Title VII protections; protected categories; theories of discrimination; the supervisor’s role in the EEO process

June 27: Tackling Leave Issues: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government; annual leave; sick leave; LWOP and FMLA

July 11: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship

July 25: Important Developments in Sex Discrimination: Current information on LGBT discrimination and gender stereotyping; tangible employment action vs. hostile work environment; same-sex harassment

August 8: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin: Religious discrimination; reasonable accommodation for religion; national origin discrimination: speak English only rules; accent discrimination

August 22: Managing a Mobile Workforce: Telework and alternative work schedules; managing employees who aren’t there; handling performance and conduct problems with teleworkers; best practices for telework

September 5: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session,
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga, Anthony Marchese.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2018! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2018 dates:

March 6: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline.

March 20: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action.

April 3: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability.

April 17: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards.

May 1: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents.

May 15: Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership; handling difficult employee types.

May 29: Tackling Leave Issues I: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government: annual leave, sick leave, leave transfer.

June 12: Tackling Leave Issues II: Handling more complicated leave scenarios: FMLA, LWOP, administrative leave, AWOL.

June 26: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan.

July 10: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship.

July 24: Intentional EEO Discrimination: What supervisors should know about EEO discrimination; discrete acts of discrimination; selection and promotion cases; defending against claims of intentional discrimination.

August 7: Combating Against Hostile Work Environment Harassment Claims: The elements of a hostile work environment; liability in hostile work environment claims; tangible employment actions; harassment v. bullying; supervisor responsibilities in harassment claims; agency defenses.

August 21: EEO Reprisal: Handle It, Don’t Fear It: How reprisal is different than other EEO claims; what the complainant must show to establish reprisal; how a supervisor can defend against reprisal claims; what to do and what not to do when an employee engages in protected EEO activity.

September 4: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs.

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session, on a space-available basis.
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga, Anthony Marchese.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2018! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2018 dates:

March 6: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline.

March 20: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action.

April 3: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability.

April 17: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards.

May 1: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents.

May 15: Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership; handling difficult employee types.

May 29: Tackling Leave Issues I: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government: annual leave, sick leave, leave transfer.

June 12: Tackling Leave Issues II: Handling more complicated leave scenarios: FMLA, LWOP, administrative leave, AWOL.

June 26: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan.

July 10: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship.

July 24: Intentional EEO Discrimination: What supervisors should know about EEO discrimination; discrete acts of discrimination; selection and promotion cases; defending against claims of intentional discrimination.

August 7: Combating Against Hostile Work Environment Harassment Claims: The elements of a hostile work environment; liability in hostile work environment claims; tangible employment actions; harassment v. bullying; supervisor responsibilities in harassment claims; agency defenses.

August 21: EEO Reprisal: Handle It, Don’t Fear It: How reprisal is different than other EEO claims; what the complainant must show to establish reprisal; how a supervisor can defend against reprisal claims; what to do and what not to do when an employee engages in protected EEO activity.

September 4: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs.

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session, on a space-available basis.
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga, Anthony Marchese.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2018! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2018 dates:

March 6: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline.

March 20: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action.

April 3: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability.

April 17: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards.

May 1: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents.

May 15: Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership; handling difficult employee types.

May 29: Tackling Leave Issues I: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government: annual leave, sick leave, leave transfer.

June 12: Tackling Leave Issues II: Handling more complicated leave scenarios: FMLA, LWOP, administrative leave, AWOL.

June 26: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan.

July 10: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship.

July 24: Intentional EEO Discrimination: What supervisors should know about EEO discrimination; discrete acts of discrimination; selection and promotion cases; defending against claims of intentional discrimination.

August 7: Combating Against Hostile Work Environment Harassment Claims: The elements of a hostile work environment; liability in hostile work environment claims; tangible employment actions; harassment v. bullying; supervisor responsibilities in harassment claims; agency defenses.

August 21: EEO Reprisal: Handle It, Don’t Fear It: How reprisal is different than other EEO claims; what the complainant must show to establish reprisal; how a supervisor can defend against reprisal claims; what to do and what not to do when an employee engages in protected EEO activity.

September 4: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs.

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session, on a space-available basis.
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.

Download Registration Form

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga, Anthony Marchese.

Course Description

Back by popular demand, and expanded to include new topics in 2018! Join FELTG for the most comprehensive supervisory training event available anywhere. Supervising Federal Employees: Important Tools for Managers and Advisers, a 13-part webinar training series (with a bonus session for those who supervise unionized employees), is targeted specifically to the issues and challenges faced by supervisors in agencies across the country, and around the world.

These 60-minute sessions, held every other Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. eastern time, will expand upon legal principles to provide federal supervisors with the necessary tools and best practices they need to manage the agency workplace effectively and efficiently. Plus, they’ll have a chance to ask questions and get answers – in real time.

As a special bonus, the first six modules fulfill OPM’s mandatory training requirements for new supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

2018 dates:

March 6: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct: The Foundation: The distinction between performance and conduct; an overview on holding employees accountable; setting the stage for discipline.

March 20: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part I: The five elements of discipline in the federal government; documentation supervisors need to succeed in a disciplinary action.

April 3: Disciplining Employees for Misconduct, Part II: Disciplinary procedures: reprimand, suspension, termination; appeals process; agency liability.

April 17: Preparing an Unacceptable Performance Case: Performance in a nutshell; preparing a performance case; proof and evidence standards.

May 1: Dealing with Poor Performing Employees: Managing the PIP; proposed removal letters; unacceptable performance documents.

May 15: Mentoring a Multigenerational Workforce: What OPM says about mentorship; mentorship styles; formal and informal mentorship; pilot mentorship programs; best practices for leadership; handling difficult employee types.

May 29: Tackling Leave Issues I: Handling the leave issues most common in the federal government: annual leave, sick leave, leave transfer.

June 12: Tackling Leave Issues II: Handling more complicated leave scenarios: FMLA, LWOP, administrative leave, AWOL.

June 26: Writing Effective Performance Plans: Performance management; understanding the system; defining elements and standards; creating the performance plan.

July 10: Disability Accommodation in 60 Minutes: Defining a disability; requests for accommodation; the interactive process; accommodations of choice; undue hardship.

July 24: Intentional EEO Discrimination: What supervisors should know about EEO discrimination; discrete acts of discrimination; selection and promotion cases; defending against claims of intentional discrimination.

August 7: Combating Against Hostile Work Environment Harassment Claims: The elements of a hostile work environment; liability in hostile work environment claims; tangible employment actions; harassment v. bullying; supervisor responsibilities in harassment claims; agency defenses.

August 21: EEO Reprisal: Handle It, Don’t Fear It: How reprisal is different than other EEO claims; what the complainant must show to establish reprisal; how a supervisor can defend against reprisal claims; what to do and what not to do when an employee engages in protected EEO activity.

September 4: Supervising in a Unionized Environment: The right to be bargained with; forming a union; employee and union rights; ULPs.

Price

• $220 per site, per session.
• Teleworkers may be added to a primary site registration for $25 each, per session, on a space-available basis.
• Special series discounts available through March 1. See registration form for details.