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Federal News Radio polled its readers on how they felt about the President's proposed reforms to the Senior Executive Service. Many were "indifferent," but othe...
Before nearly 3,000 members of the Senior Executive Service, President Barack Obama rolled out a series of reforms to the SES Tuesday.
The reforms include creating a Leadership Development Program to provide managers with rotational assignments at different agencies so that they can develop new skills. He also called for the formation of an advisory group made up of SES members and aspiring senior executives to focus on how the government recruits, hires and retains senior executive.
Separate from reforms to the SES, the Obama administration plans to create a customer service awards program. The non-monetary incentives will reward excellence by individual federal employees.
Federal News Radio asked its readers what they thought of the proposed reforms and the answers we got back proved to be a mixed bag.
We conducted an anonymous poll on our website yesterday, asking federal employees: “What feeling best describes your reaction to President Barack Obama’s announced reforms to the Senior Executive Service?” As of Wednesday at 4 p.m., 40 percent of the respondents said they felt “indifferent,” 29 percent said “It was a start,” and 13 percent were “Excited for the reforms.” Eighteen percent of those responding said they were “disappointed/frustrated” and that the reforms “don’t go far enough.”
We also asked readers to let us know how they felt about the President’s announcement through email, comments and social media. Below is a section of the comments we received:
“The Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) was an experiential learning program that provided future DoD Senior Executive Service leaders an opportunity to understand the width and breadth of the department while also learning about themselves, and their ability to communicate. The 10-month program provided hands-on experience with military personnel in operational settings. We ate MREs, slept in cots, ran obstacle courses, and learned about the strategic importance of diplomacy and the use of force in executing the mission of keeping the United States safe. Along the way, ELDP students worked on the core competencies outlined by the Office of Personnel Management for leadership, and honed their communications skills. …
“Several of us former students had remained aligned with program, serving as facilitators and mentors to subsequent students. That is until this year, when the DCPAS staff ‘threw the baby out with the bath water.’ …
“The President would do well to create a version of the old ELDP, and translate it to other federal Departments to create the skilled workforce we need to lead in the future. And the DoD should resurrect the program that it decimated this year. Though records are not kept, many current SES staff in the DoD are former ELDP students. — Anonymous, via email
In Depth host Francis Rose wrote a commentary about President Obama’s proposed SES reforms. Here are some of the comments that article generated:
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