Complete Your June Mandatory Training Before the 30th!
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.
Courses due June 30th:
- Insider Threat Awareness & Reporting
- Employee Accountability for GSA Personal Property
- Internal Controls at GSA and You
- Annual Ethics Training
New employees, senior executives, and contractors who have joined GSA in 2023 have different mandatory training curriculums with different due dates. You can find more information on the Mandatory Training Page on InSite or contact program manager Wendy Cobb for help.
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Nominate a Colleague or Team for the 2023 GSA Customer Experience Award
Recognize an individual or a team's excellence in customer service by nominating them for a GSA Customer Experience Award.
Visit InSite to review the award criteria, see past winners, and submit your nomination.
The deadline for submitting a nomination is July 1st.
There's Still Time to Earn Your Checkmark?
The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey gives you a chance to share your opinions and perceptions with leadership. If you've already completed the survey, add the image to the left to your email signature to let everyone know you've made your voice heard. Looking for other ways to show your FEVS support? These GSA FEVS backgrounds let you take the FEVS spirit with you wherever you (virtually) go.
If you haven't taken the survey, take a few minutes to complete it today. Your responses are confidential and help make GSA a better place for employees and for everyone we serve. The new deadline for participation is July 7th.
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New! Time and Leave Guidance for the July 4th Independence Day Holiday
Independence Day, July 4th, is a Federal holiday for pay and leave purposes for all federal employees.
Employees scheduled to work that day will receive holiday pay. Employees on a standard or flexible schedule are provided with 8 hours of holiday pay. Employees on a compressed schedule are provided holiday pay for the number of hours they would have been scheduled to work on that day (i.e., 8, 9, 10, or 12 hours).
Some full-time employees may not be scheduled to work on the holiday. If you are in this group, you are instead eligible for an in-lieu-of holiday. The in-lieu-of holiday is the last workday immediately before Memorial Day. For most employees, the in-lieu-of holiday will be observed on Monday, July 3, 2023. Part-time and intermittent employees not scheduled for duty on July 4th are not entitled to an in-lieu-of holiday.
To record holiday time off, use the time reporting code 002-Holiday Observed. Do not place any information into the “Additional TRC,” “Labor Code,” or “Task Code” fields. Due to the holiday, supervisors should approve all timesheets for pay period 14 (i.e., June 18 through July 1) by 4:00 p.m. Eastern on Friday, June 30.
You can direct timekeeping questions to your organizational time administrator or to the timekeeper help desk (timekeeping.help-desk@gsa.gov).
ICYMI: Messages from GSA Leadership
June 22nd: General Counsel Arpit Garg provides a Hatch Act reminder
June 21st: Administrator Carnahan shared her thanks for a great GSA town hall, a post-event survey, and a link to the recording
Check out the Messages from Leadership page on InSite, where you can find past messages from GSA leaders.
Have Lunch with Brian Block on July 13th!
Sign up to join Office of Budget director Brian Block for an informal lunch on Thursday, July 13th at noon.
Stay tuned for sign ups for the opportunity to have lunch with office directors Steve Brockelman (August) and Evan Farley (September).
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See a Game with Your Colleagues at Nats Park on August 1st ⚾
OCFO is again hosting a Nationals outing for those in the D.C. area. The game is on Tuesday, August 1st at 7:05 p.m. versus Milwaukee. Tickets should be around $20 (give or take a buck or two).
If you're interested in attending, Evan Farley has set up a spreadsheet where you can add your name, number of tickets, and office. Please add your email address if you intend to use the Ballpark app.
What is the Ballpark app you ask? Nationals Park only uses digital tickets and these tickets will be distributed to Evan electronically. You will have two ways to gain access to the park. First, if you have an MLB account and use the Ballpark app, Evan will forward the ticket to the email address associated with your MLB account. This allows you to enter the park at your leisure using a ticket on your phone. If not, He will arrange a time prior to first pitch where everyone will meet at a designated spot and he will use my phone to admit those without Ballpark one by one.
Please sign up by Monday, July 10th. If your name is on the list as of that date, a ticket will be purchased for you. If you ultimately can't use the ticket, you will still be responsible for the cost (you are, of course, free to pass the ticket to a colleague or contact Evan to help find an OCFO buyer).
Venmo or PayPal are Evan's preferred methods of payment, and details for sending payment will follow for those who sign up.
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Did You Know...? There's a Federal Customer Experience Community of Practice
Sharpen your customer experience skills and network with peers who want to make interactions with customers as meaningful as they can be. Join the CX CoP Google Group to get invites to monthly meetings and connect with others at GSA who are interested in improving the customer experience.
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Help Shape the Upcoming OCFO Town Hall!
Have questions for the upcoming OCFO town hall? Share them with leadership in advance by filling out and submitting this Google form.
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Take a "Vacation to Alation" with a New OCFO Training and Resource Library Video
Have you heard about Alation? If you are not an OCFO data steward or functional expert, then there is a good chance you have not heard about it. What is Alation? Alation is a data catalog tool that helps organizations identify, understand, and manage their data assets. Or as it applies to the OCFO, "making sense of the data so that you can make cents off the data!"
Alation is not yet widely available but hopefully that will change in the months to come. Users can benefit from the tool by learning about GSA financial data through well crafted data definitions, examples, links to useful sites, and articles. So, if you are curious, you can watch the training video or walk through the self-paced slide deck posted in the OCFO Training and Resource Library under "Vacation to Alation."
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 Monica Cush and the FAS Category team: Sandy Braudaway, Michelle Lofton-Foster, Kristine Stapley, Stephanie Taylor-Richardson, and Carolina Morgan (all BGF)!
Thanking my team and supervisor for stepping up and helping me complete our mission while I was out of the office unexpectedly. They are the greatest!!!
Submitted by: Angela Cizek (BGP)
Shout out to Lina Trubenstein (BG2BB)!
Shout out to Lina for always having a helpful attitude and being willing to take on new things! Lina volunteered to be one of the leads for G-Invoicing transactions and takes the lead with creating SRs, resolving issues, and doing training on new processes. She also helped with the testing review for the GSAFleet.gov modernization project on top of keeping up with her regular duties for Fleet billings and debt accounts. Thank you, Lina!
Submitted by: Katherine Ditucci (BG2BB)
Welcome to the OCFO Analytics Corner! Each week, the Analytics Community of Practice (A-CoP) team will be sharing events, training, resources, and more. If you would like to learn more about the new OCFO Analytics Community of Practice, you can sign up for updates here.
Free Access to Industry-leading Financial Analysis Resources!
Did you know that OCFO employees have access to Gartner resources including webinars, tools, templates, best practices, and case studies? To take advantage of these resources covering finance, data and analytics, technology optimization, planning, budgeting and forecasting, and more:
1. Visit gartner.com/login
2. Submit your gsa.gov email address under "Create a client account"
3. Check your email to finish setting up your password and profile
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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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Mentoring Essentials for New Employees
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Tue., Jun. 27
2 to 3 p.m. Eastern
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Achieving Maximum Productivity*
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Thu., Jun. 29
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern
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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving for New Supervisors
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Mon., Jul. 10
1 to 6 p.m. Eastern
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Giving Feedback Using Coaching Skills*
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Wed., Jul. 19
1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Eastern
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Creativity and Innovation*
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Mon., Jul. 24 to Tue., Jul. 25
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern
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Resume Writing and The Federal Application Process
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Tue., Aug. 8
1 to 2:30 p.m. Eastern
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FERS Mid-career Planning*
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Tue., Aug. 22 to Fri., Aug. 25
1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern
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DEIA Dialogues - Allyship and Interrupting Bias
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Wed., Sep. 13
11 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! If no more seats are available, join the waitlist or register for a later session.
Continuous Leadership Journey: Technical Communication
This month's CLJ provides resources for improving your ability to communicate meaningfully about new technology.
If you would like to learn more about technical communication, visit the Technical Writer resources channel on GSA's Online University, and don’t forget to join the upcoming facilitated discussion session on this topic on June 29th at 2 p.m. Eastern.
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Updated! GSA IT Training Classes Help You Perfect Your Google Workspace Skills
Upload Organize & Share in Google Drive (Jun. 28)- Learn how to wow your audience with animations and transitions; insert text, shapes, images, and videos; crop and mask, add WordArt, and more.
Get to Know Google Docs (July 6) - This class will cover how to create and save a document, work more quickly with templates, navigate menus and toolbars, and set margins and more with page setup.
Get to Know Your Google Drive (July 11) - Are you a Google Drive beginner? Learn how to navigate the folder tree, find your files, use stars and colors to organize, and more.
Google Docs: Inserts & Text with Style (July 12) - Learn how to create and navigate tables, use paragraph styles to format text, insert images and charts, and more!
New! DocuSign Intro (July 18) - GSA's digital signature solution lets you digitally send and sign documents from practically anywhere at anytime. This beginner's course includes demos of sending and signing documents and a Q&A with subject matter experts.
Make the Most of Google Meet (July 19) - Google Meet is the standard GSA meeting tool, but are you getting the most out of your virtual meeting experience? Whether you're a meeting host or an attendee, you'll learn something new in this beginner's course.
Google Slides: Shapes, Pics & Vids (July 26) - Learn how to wow your audience with animations and transitions; insert text, shapes, images, and videos; crop and mask, add WordArt, and more.
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