4.4: Diverse, Energized, and High-Performing Workforce

Build a Diverse, Energized, and High-Performing Workforce

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The Corporation recognizes that our hard working and committed employees are our most valuable asset. They have answered the call to public service, and to further embody that ideal, we continue to seek and employ a diverse, energized, and high-performing workforce. To achieve this commitment, we will work to strengthen workforce diversity at all levels, reward high performers, and be more responsive to and supportive of employees. We will provide more opportunities for professional growth and civic participation, as well as identify tools to ensure that all employees are offered the training necessary to perform their expected duties. We believe our improved human capital strategies will help us foster greater employee satisfaction, enhance our performance culture, better reflect staff’s civic motivation, and ultimately transform the agency into one of the most rewarding and supportive places to work in the Federal government. Effective communication is key to successful management; therefore, we will work to ensure that key organizational decisions receive appropriate attention through dialogue between managers, staff, and the broader service network. We will incorporate feedback systems, providing staff with opportunities to be heard and with the assurance that their ideas will be incorporated into the process for making management and administrative decisions and furthering our strategic goals. Furthermore, we will engage in ongoing communication with and through our Diversity Advisory Council and our Union leadership to help ensure that those decisions are responsive, fair, and accurate. The Corporation aspires to become a successful learning organization. To do this, we will improve and leverage our technologies to ensure we are sharing both knowledge and skills. We will also provide more effective training opportunities that will allow new employees to begin performing their tasks proficiently, as well as to provide existing employees with more learning opportunities to enhance job performance and develop interpersonal skills. We will collaborate with issue area experts to conduct evaluations of programs, and foster “affinity groups” for programs working on similar issues. To support this effort, we will strengthen our merit and performance culture, reward higher-performing employees, and ensure that compensation is appropriately tied to performance. We believe our improved human capital strategies will help us foster greater employee satisfaction, enhance our performance culture, better reflect staff’s civic motivation, and ultimately transform the agency into one of the most rewarding and supportive places to work in the Federal government. In taking these steps, we will ultimately transform the Corporation into one of the best places to work in the Federal government, and positioning the Corporation as a successful knowledge management organization.

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