Agency Services

Getting Started with Best Places to Work

Employee job satisfaction is a key component of high-performing organizations. Across our federal government, agencies face demanding performance goals and calls for greater efficiency. Your agency needs an engaged and committed workforce to meet these challenges.

The Partnership for Public Service offers advisory services to help agency leaders use their Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® data to positively impact workforce satisfaction and commitment, improve recruitment and retention, and drive performance.

Services include tailored leadership guidance, internal communications support, in-depth analysis of data and benchmarking, facilitated action planning and follow-up reviews. In addition, a two-day Action Planning Facilitation Training course offers agencies an opportunity to develop internal capacity to sustain culture change. Numerous agencies from all levels in the rankings have benefited from our Best Places to Work tools.

Contact Monica Linhardt at (202) 464-2692 or mlinhardt@ourpublicservice.org for more information.

COMPLIMENTARY SENIOR LEADERSHIP BRIEFING

The one-hour briefing agenda includes:

• Best Places to Work history and methodology
• Agency data review
• Leading practices across government
• Q & A

DATA ANALYSIS

Use the Best Places to Work data to develop your strategy for improvement. Customized analysis based on your agency’s specific needs and interests is available.

CUSTOM EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT ACTION PLANNING

The Partnership as worked with numerous federal agencies to use employee survey data to identify the highest-impact opportunities to improve the work environment. Custom engagements are tailored to your agency’s specific needs and culture. It can include the following components:

• Action Planning
• Leadership Strategy Sessions
• Program Evaluation
• Action Planning Facilitation Training

Excel Tool Workplace Analysis Reports

The Excel Tool, made possible by Hay Group, is a resource to help managers and agency leaders improve government performance by boosting employee satisfaction and commitment. The Excel Tool displays your agency’s results for the survey questions and workplace categories included in the Best Places to Work rankings. The questions are from the Office of Personnel Management’s 2012 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.

The Excel Tool features the following types of reports for your agency:

• Agency results for the Best Places to Work Index, as well as workplace categories
• Agency “key drivers”, the two to three workplace categories most important to improving your Best Places to Work score
• Agency results for individual survey questions (e.g., percentage of employees providing a favorable, neutral, and unfavorable response)
• A comparison of agency 2012 results to the previous year (trend)
• A comparison of agency results to the federal government-wide results
• A comparison of agency results to the private sector
• A breakdown of survey results by key demographic categories (e.g., age, minority/non-minority, gender, supervisory status)

All fields are required to download the Excel Tool. If you are a federal employee, and your agency appears in the 2012 Best Places to Work rankings and participated in the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, please contact us for your agency’s login and password.

Agency Code	Password
First Name	Last Name
Job Title	Employer
Email	Telephone

All fields are required.

Best Places to Work Agency Guide

Use your Best Places to Work data to improve your agency's workplace environment in a way that also improves organizational effectiveness.

• Gain an in-depth understanding of what your data mean to better focus and set priorities during action planning;
• Enhance two-way communication across all levels of your organization to engage key stakeholders in improving employee satisfaction;
• Use your data to develop a viable plan of action and maintain stakeholder engagement to ensure long-term support and resources for the effort;
• Incorporate the commitment to improve the workplace environment into the agency’s culture and broader mission, and sustain progress over time; and
  
• Document lessons learned and start planning for future action.

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