Wellness Month is officially here! Join the Engagement Team and Mindful GSA ambassador Kusuma Aralere next Tuesday, August 6th, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern for a guided chair yoga 🪑🧘 session. Check your calendar for details or add the event using this link if it's not there.
Throughout the month, we’ll be checking in with you on different wellness topics. This week, we want to know: How do you keep calm?
We’ll share your responses to the poll in next week’s newsletter, so check back then — and keep an eye on this space and the OCFO Google site throughout the month for more information!
Other upcoming events:
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Aug. 13th - An hour-long mental health lunch and learn, focused on building everyday resilience
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Aug. 19th - OCFO meeting stand-down Monday
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Aug. 28th - Paws & Claws Meet and Greet
Your participation in OCFO Wellness Month activities is voluntary, but we hope you can attend. If you have questions or need an accommodation to participate fully, reach out to the Engagement Team at OCFOEngagementTeam@gsa.gov.
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Congratulations to our 2024 CFO Awards Nominees!
This week, the nominees for the CFO Awards were announced. Kudos to the following OCFO employees and teams:
Bias Towards Action Award
Jeffrey Peterman
Kristin Williamson
Mason Thomas
Tanya Minor
Morgan Gaylor
Randy Brown
Collaborating for Results Award
Natalie Cotter
Jim Geoghegan
Colten Gibson
Fabrian McCain
Chris Carver
Deborah Sanders
Data Analysis and Decision Support Award
De-Borah Mack
Vivi Tran-Chu
Teisha Jones
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Data Analysis and Decision Support Award (cont.)
Chris Ellers
Tom Kaye
Leading With Integrity Award
Christi Dewhirst
Ebony Taylor
Ebonie Smith
Unlocking New Value Award
Tanya Minor
De-Borah Mack
Dream Team Award
Datathon 5.0 Core Team
BR Internal Solutions Team
BGP's Leasing Team
WCF PC&B Team
Pegasys v8.1 Upgrade Project Team
Lease Water Testing Team
Heating, Operations & Transmission Division Decommissioning Analysis Team
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Sign Up for the Final Lunch With an OCFO Leader of 2024
There's still time to join an OCFO leader for lunch this year. Sign up today for a chance to attend lunch with Evan Farley, director of the Office of Audit Management and Accountability, on Tuesday, September 10th at noon. Don't let this unique opportunity pass you by!
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Did You Know That There's a Federal Mindfulness Community of Practice?!
Mindful FED is a first-of-its-kind interagency community of practice, offering guided meditations and more to support your intention to cultivate wellbeing and resilience. For now, the community is gathering weekly and hope to do more with increased participation and engagement.
Federal employees can join the community by sending a blank email to Mindful-FED-subscribe-request@listserv.gsa.gov to receive email invitations and updates.
ICYMI: Messages from GSA Leadership
You're all caught up! Check out the Messages from Leadership page on InSite, where you can find past messages from GSA leaders.
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 Rodney MCMillin, Jeremy Farmer, and Thomas Locum (all BD2E)!
When FSD was unable to FTP our daily IPAC files to Pegasys, the FIOD team stepped in to ensure the files were FTP'd before month end. We thank each of them for their contributions.
Submitted by: Susan Hurley (BC2DC)
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 OCFO Analytics Community of Practice, you can sign up for updates here.
Explore Our New NLP Demo: Transforming Language Processing at GSA!
We're thrilled to introduce our latest proof of concept demo — a front-end web application showcasing advanced natural language processing (NLP) capabilities! This user-friendly interface allows you to input text data and see the output from various AI models directly. This initiative is part of our collaboration with the chief data officer's office on a pilot project to explore AWS Sagemaker and identify a pathway for AI and machine learning.
This project supports our broader efforts around AI innovation and adoption across the organization. By serving and democratizing AI models, we ensure that everyone in the organization benefits from the models different teams are building. Our goal is to create a clear process by which anyone in the organization can deploy, host, and share their model solutions.
Explore the various NLP tools, such as sentiment analysis and text summarization. Experiment with our demo at aipoc.gsa.gov and see how these tools can benefit your work. If you have team members who can test accessing our models through programmatic access to the API endpoints, we’d love to collaborate with them! Your insights will help shape the future of our tools and technologies.
For more information or to get involved, please email Izzy Metzger.
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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 on the Online University Events Calendar.
Don't Forget! The Career Planning and Training Tool is Here to Help
The CFO Council's (CFOC) Career Planning and Training Tool has recently undergone a revision to its functionality to make it easier to identify courses that align with the CFOC’s core competencies for the financial management job series (501, 510, 511 and 565). You can start using the tool by clicking on the job series and GS-level filters. Career guidance in the form of virtual cards will display in the center of the screen and below.
Each virtual card will include information about a competency, including a general description, relevant behaviors, and proficiency levels. The cards will also contain embedded links to vendor courses that will help you master aspects of each competency. The partner vendors offer a wide array of course types and learning modalities, including on-line, on-site, hybrid, micro-learning, cohort style, and many more. These courses are available for purchase via government purchase card (note - purchases on government purchase cards are limited to $10,000; most courses are significantly less than that).
Try it today and give your professional development a boost!
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