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Performance appraisals. End of cycle ratings on tough-to-track elements. Discussing performance problems with employees. Taking defensible performance actions. Dealing with generic performance plans.

If you’re a federal supervisor and those words above mean anything to you, then we have a brand new one-day course just for you.

FELTG’s own Barbara Haga will take the mystery out of how the system is supposed to work in the federal government by helping you review your own performance plans to see what’s good and what needs tweaking. She’ll also explain how performance procedures work when an employee is not performing – and will cover so much more.

Ms Haga has over 30 years of experience working with appraisal systems, from participating in the design of systems to helping managers develop critical elements and performance standards. Take a look at the agenda below.

Instructor

Barbara Haga

Agenda:

8:30-9:45:        Legal and Regulatory Background; Environment; System Requirements

9:55-11:45:      System Requirements (cont’d); Elements and Standards; Feedback; Applying Performance Plans

11:45-12:45:    Lunch

12:45-1:50:      MSPB Decisions on Performance Measures; Performance Plan Review

2:00-2:50:        Performance Plan Review (cont’d); Within-Grade Increases

3:00-4:00:        Unacceptable Performance; Performance Improvement Period; Taking Performance-based Action

4:00:                Adjourn

Pricing

• 1 day = $490

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Attention all HR professionals and supervisors – this is a BRAND NEW and IMPORTANT training on a mandatory directive from the Office of Management and Budget, and you won’t get it anywhere else.

OMB Directive M-17-22, the Comprehensive Plan for Reforming the Federal Government and Reducing the Federal Civilian Workforce, requires agencies to eliminate unnecessary barriers to addressing poor performance contained in agency policies.  This one-day course will give you the tools you need to analyze your existing appraisal system and to ensure that it helps managers to effectively and quickly deal with poor performance in the federal workplace – and to be able to survive third-party review.

Topics covered include:

• Focusing on accountability for job performance
• Designing and perfecting the appraisal system to ensure accountability
• Within-grade increases (WIGIs) and their impact on accountability
• Eliminating unacceptable performance requirements that are not based on law/regulation (and waste your valuable time!)

The program runs 8:30 – 4:15.

Instructors

Barbara Haga

Agenda:

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Pricing

• 1 day = $460

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, Shana Palmieri

Course Description

Attention federal supervisors, HR professionals, medical professionals, attorneys, and other agency employees:

• What should you do when an employee with a behavioral health issue has an episode in the workplace?
• What steps should you take if the employee threatens violence or suicide?
• Or, in a worst-case scenario, what do you do if someone actually becomes violent in the federal workplace?

Crisis management in the federal workplace is a critical area to understand – it is truly life and death. Join FELTG Executive Director Deborah Hopkins and Shana Palmieri, Director of Community Services and Behavioral Health at the Kalihi-Palama Health Center, on Wednesday, July 26 for the workshop Handling Behavioral Health Issues and Instances of Violence in the Federal Workplace.

The session will begin with an overview of the need-to-knows about the ADA requirements on accommodating individuals with mental impairments and other behavioral health issues, and will also discuss your agency’s legal obligation to provide its employees with a safe workplace.

From there the seminar will continue with discussions and workshops on:

• Types of mental disabilities and how they may exhibit in the workplace
• The “direct threat” analysis
• Dealing with suicidal employees
• Dos and don’ts when working employees who have behavioral health issues
• Myths and facts about targeted violence in the workplace
• Individual characteristics that put an employee at higher risk of committing an act of violence
• Steps to take if someone becomes violent in the workplace

Plus, we’ll show you how to develop and implement an in-house threat management team to deal with threat assessments, risk management, and the best ways to keep employees safe during a crisis. This is a session you truly can’t afford to miss.

The program runs from 8:30 – 4:00.

Pricing

• 1 day = $460

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Holding federal employees accountable for performance and conduct is easier than you might think. Too many supervisors believe that an employee’s protected activity (EEO complaints, whistleblower disclosures, or union activity) precludes the supervisor from initiating a suspension or removal, but that’s just not true.

FELTG is here to make federal supervisors’ lives easier by clarifying those misconceptions while helping supervisors understand how to take defensible misconduct actions quickly and fairly – actions that withstand scrutiny on appeal by the MSPB, EEOC, or in grievance arbitration. Plus, if you have a non-performing employee working for you now, we show you how you can remove that employee from your workplace in 31 days, among many other things. Join us for this brand-new three-day seminar and come away with the tools you need to hold your employees accountable.

The program runs 8:30 – 4:00 each day and meets OPM’s mandatory training requirements for federal supervisors found at 5 CFR 412.202(b).

Instructors

William Wiley, Deborah Hopkins

Daily Agenda:

Tuesday

Accountability for Conduct and Performance, Part I: Accountability and supervisory authority; discipline and misconduct theory and practice; penalty defense and due process; discipline procedures and appeals; psychology of performance appraisal; performance-based removal procedures.

Wednesday

Accountability for Conduct and Performance, Part II: Completing a performance action; team workshop; mentoring programs; handling the absent employee; union considerations; understanding the federal supervisor’s personal liability in employment actions.

Thursday

Defending Against Discrimination Complaints: The Supervisor’s Role: The role of EEO in the federal government; defining protected categories: race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, genetic information and reprisal; theories of discrimination; agency defenses; what to do if you’re a Responding Management Official in a complaint; what happens if you’re called as an EEO witness.

Pricing

• 3 days = $1350
• 2 days = $960
• 1 day = $530

Seminar registration includes a copy of the textbook UnCivil Servant: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct, 4th ed., by Wiley and Hopkins.

Metro, Parking, Directions

Metro: The International Student House (1825 R Street NW) is located in convenient proximity to the Red Line. Exit Metro at the Dupont Circle station and proceed to the Q Street/North exit. Head north (you will come off the escalator facing north; if you use the elevator take a left after exiting) on Connecticut Avenue to R Street NW (approximately one block). Turn right onto R Street NW. Cross 19th Street NW and the International Student House will be on the left side of the street approximately halfway down the block. If you reach the Bikeshare dock, you’ve gone too far. Approximate walk time: 7-10 minutes.

Parking: Street parking is metered and is limited to two hours, unless you have a Washington, DC, Zone 2 parking pass. The closest parking garage is at 11 Dupont Circle, approximately two blocks from the International Student House (1825 R Street NW). Approximate walk time: 5 -7 minutes.

From the Carlyle Hotel: After exiting the Carlyle Hotel, turn left. At the first intersection, R Street NW, turn right. Proceed approximately one block. The International Student House (1825 R Street NW) will be on your right, just past the Bikeshare dock. Approximate walk time: 4-6 minutes.

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, Shana Palmieri, Anthony Marchese

Course Description

Pop Quiz:

• What should you do when an employee with bipolar disorder has a manic episode in the workplace?
• Do you know how to accommodate and work with employees who have PTSD or substance abuse issues?
• Are you allowed to drug test an employee who comes to work smelling like marijuana?
• What steps should you take if an employee in your agency threatens violence or suicide?
• What’s the best way to handle workplace conflicts that don’t rise to the level of performance or conduct but involve difficult personality types?

We have answers to all those questions – and many more – in the the three-day workshop Federal Workplace Challenges: Behavioral Health Issues, Threats of Violence, and Coworker Conflicts.

This class is unique in that it covers the legal issues AND the practical/clinical issues that arise in these challenging workplace scenarios. Through this combination you’ll gain the tools to better understand how to deal with employees who have mental and behavioral health issues, how to manage risk in your agency, and how to handle the conflicts that take your employees off task. 

Daily Agenda:

Tuesday

Handling Behavioral Health Issues: An overview of the ADA requirements on accommodating individuals with mental impairments and other behavioral health issues; your agency’s legal obligation to provide its employees with a safe workplace; types of mental disabilities and how they may exhibit in the workplace; PTSD, substance abuse disorders; dos and don’ts when working employees who have behavioral health issues.

Wednesday

Dealing with Threats of Violence: Handling the psychiatric emergency; legal considerations for federal agencies; dangerous scenarios during the notice period; myths and facts about targeted violence in the workplace; dealing with suicidal employees; individual characteristics that put an employee at higher risk of committing an act of violence; how to develop and implement an in-house threat management team to deal with threat assessments, risk management, and the best ways to keep employees safe during a crisis; steps to take if someone becomes violent in the workplace.

Thursday

Conflict Management: Managing vs. leading; difficult employee personality types; potential generational conflicts; using structured communication with your employees; learning how to “Flex” in difficult conversations with others; conflict resolution skills; utilizing a team-based approach in the federal government.

Pricing

• 3 days = $1340
• 2 days = $950
• 1 day = $530

Metro, Parking, Directions

Metro: The International Student House (1825 R Street NW) is located in convenient proximity to the Red Line. Exit Metro at the Dupont Circle station and proceed to the Q Street/North exit. Head north (you will come off the escalator facing north; if you use the elevator take a left after exiting) on Connecticut Avenue to R Street NW (approximately one block). Turn right onto R Street NW. Cross 19th Street NW and the International Student House will be on the left side of the street approximately halfway down the block. If you reach the Bikeshare dock, you’ve gone too far. Approximate walk time: 7-10 minutes.

Parking: Street parking is metered and is limited to two hours, unless you have a Washington, DC, Zone 2 parking pass. The closest parking garage is at 11 Dupont Circle, approximately two blocks from the International Student House (1825 R Street NW). Approximate walk time: 5 -7 minutes.

From the Carlyle Hotel: After exiting the Carlyle Hotel, turn left. At the first intersection, R Street NW, turn right. Proceed approximately one block. The International Student House (1825 R Street NW) will be on your right, just past the Bikeshare dock. Approximate walk time: 4-6 minutes.