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Attend Next Week's Agency-wide Town Hall
On February 9, from 2-3 p.m., Eastern, join Administrator Robin Carnahan, Deputy Administrator Katy Kale, and other members of GSA’s senior leadership via Zoom for a virtual agency-wide town hall to celebrate agency successes and discuss priorities for the year ahead. Add the town hall to your calendar
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Mandatory 2023 Refresher Training Now Available
To access your courses and view due dates, go to your GSA Online University transcript and launch the GSA 2023 Mandatory Refresher Training for Employees curriculum.
- Employees who joined GSA in 2022 or earlier are required to complete the assigned 2023 courses by the specified due dates. Up first: IT security and privacy awareness training, which is due on March 10.
- New employees/SES/contractors joining GSA in 2023 will receive different mandatory training curriculums with different due dates.
If you need help, get more information on the Mandatory Training Page on InSite or contact program manager Wendy Cobb.
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ICYMI: Messages from GSA Leadership
Feb. 3: Deputy Administrator Katy Kale thanks GSA for a great Combined Federal Campaign
Feb. 1: Administrator Carnahan marks the beginning of Black History Month
Jan. 31: The Administrator addresses recent violence in California and Tennessee
Check out the Messages from Leadership page on InSite, where you can find past messages from GSA leaders.
Town Hall Slides and Recording Now Available
Thanks for attending last week's town hall! If you missed it, the recording, slide deck, and transcript are now available. If you have questions that weren't addressed during the event, don’t hesitate to share them with us at ocfo@gsa.gov.
If you haven't already, take a minute to take a brief post-town hall survey to let us know what you thought.
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A National Alert and Accountability System Update
Les Painter, OCFO's emergency coordinator, has an update on the National Alert and Accountability System:
GSA recently updated the data fields uploaded into the National Alert and Accountability System (NAAS) to include adding a new physical region field. Each employee's physical region is usually assigned based on duty station location. For instance, I live in Spotsylvania, VA, and work remotely but report to the Central Office.
Your duty station is your office location (typically for onsite required or onsite flexible employee categorization positions) or your home (typically for an offsite position). Since I live and work (from home) in Virginia, I may receive NAAS messages from Region 3 drills because of my geographical location. This same situation may affect some or all of you. You may begin to receive regional drill messages and if/when OCFO conducts its quarterly drills. Please click the link and respond to any message received to ensure that OCFO is ready.
Please also remember that disasters (true emergencies) are local, geographic events, and we want to ensure your safety if something happens at your duty station.
If you have any questions or require additional information, don't hesitate to contact me.
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Every week we will feature OCFO colleagues who have been recognized by their peers for their great work and character. This is a quick, easy, and fun way to acknowledge and thank one another.
To recognize one (or more) of your peers in the next Week in Review, use the OCFO Shout Outs Google Form.
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Shout out to Joan Chung-Choy (BR3B)!
Joan went above and beyond to help fellow OCFO associates in Zone 3. Now that most OCFO employees work from home, two Financial Management Division staff members did not know that their GSA travel cards were mailed to the R9 Regional Office. Joan saw the mail sitting there when she was in the office and took action to work with the mailroom to get the cards re-mailed to the home addresses. Thank you, Joan, for going out of your way to help others!
Submitted by: Tamira Mitchell (BR3F)
Shout out to Lauren Franklin (BGF)!
Shout out to Lauren Franklin for her expert handling and coordination in getting $5 billion of expense accruals and $2 billion of income accruals posted in the January book month after the first set of files failed to post due to a systems communication error.
Lauren's intricate knowledge of the system interactions allowed her to quickly diagnose the issue and contact the appropriate contacts to coordinate a response and resolution. With her efforts, $7 billion of worksheet adjustments were avoided. Thank you, Lauren, for another great save!
Submitted by: Michael Montenegro (BGF)
Welcome to the OCFO Analytics Corner! Each week, the Analytics Community of Practice (A-CoP) team will be sharing events, training, resources, and more. Learn more about the A-CoP, including how to join, on the OCFO Analytics Hub.
Meet Alation: An Automated Data Catalog that Leverages AI!
The next level of data cataloging is here at GSA! Alation is an automated data catalog that leverages machine learning to understand data usage. Whether you're just interested in exploring data catalogs or you have a new Alation license, check out this demo!
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Visit the Mandatory Training page on GSA's InSite for mandatory training deadlines and watch the GSA News & Info section for training reminders.
Looking for enterprise-wide training? You'll find a selection of the upcoming offerings below or check out the Online University Events Calendar for a full slate of training opportunities.
Upcoming Enterprise-wide Training
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CSRS Pre-Retirement Training
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Mon., Feb. 6–Thu., Feb. 9
1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern
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Creating Team Culture in Distributed Teams*
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Tue., Feb. 7
1 to 2:30 p.m. Eastern
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Developing a Bias Free Workplace (for non-supervisors)
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Thu., Feb. 9
1 to 2:30 p.m. Eastern
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FERS Mid-Career Planning*
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Mon., Feb. 13–Thu., Feb. 16
1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern
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FERS Pre-Retirement Training*
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Mon., Mar. 6–Thu., Mar. 9
1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern
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Inclusive Intelligence - The New IQ*
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Wed., Mar. 8
9 to 10:30 a.m. Eastern
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Psychological Safety*
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Tue., Mar. 14
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern
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Check out the Online University Events Calendar for more training opportunities. *These courses fill up fast, so register today! Join the waitlist or register for a later session.
eForm 450 Filer Q&A
Were you notified that you need to complete the eForm 450 by the February 15 deadline? If you have questions about the form, bring them to the final Q&A session, where experts will be on hand to help.
February 7 (2 to 3 p.m. Eastern)
Join by Google Meet or by phone (1-929-324-1832, PIN:478 120 762#) on the date you want to attend.
Continuous Leadership Journey: Customer Service
This month's CLJ provides resources for helping you ensure your skills match up with your customers' expectations. You can tap into the Percipio Customer Essentials Skill Benchmark Tool to assist you in determining your customer service skill level — novice, developing, or proficient. Answer a set of key questions and receive targeted content specific to those areas of identified opportunity. The tool focuses on areas that need improvement and not those you already know.
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Register for the Budget Line of Business Intro to Budget Forum
Sign up for this two-day conference dedicated to introducing professionals to the federal budget process. Session registration
pages are now open.
Tuesday, March 14
Wednesday, March 15
If special accommodations are necessary for you to attend the forum, send an e-mail to BudgetLoB@ed.gov by February 24, 2023, and specify your particular need in the message.
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