Congratulations to 2024 Service to the Citizen Awardees Ashleigh Sanders and Isabel Metzger!
Congrats to Ashleigh and Izzy, who are being recognized for "developing a groundbreaking data science toolkit aimed at enhancing federal service delivery in alignment with directives like the Executive Order on Customer Experience and the IDEA Act. This open-source toolkit, hosted on GSA's GitHub, empowers government agencies to extract actionable insights from diverse sources of customer feedback, both structured (e.g., surveys) and unstructured (e.g., emails, chatbot interactions). This initiative addresses the challenge of effectively utilizing the vast amount of unstructured data to gain deeper understanding and improve service delivery."
Their work has had a real-world impact on service delivery and it contributes to the administration's goals of modernizing federal service delivery and improving customer outcomes.
You can read more about their work on the Service to the Citizen website and register to attend the September 13th ceremony, where they'll be recognized, on Eventbrite.
New! September OCFO Article Club: Be Where Your Feet Are
The OCFO Article Club will be meeting on Wednesday, September 25th at noon Eastern. This month's discussion will cover a summary of the book Be Where Your Feet Are, by Scott M. O'Neil.
If the event isn't on your calendar, you can join by Google Meet on September 25th at noon Eastern.
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Did You Know That You Have Access to Gartner's Resources at Your Fingertips?!
GSA has an enterprise-wide subscription to Gartner, which contains expert guidance and tools covering finance, human capital, risk management, and many other topic areas. GSA employees can review research, attend webinars (and watch recordings), download ignition guides to get you started on a particular project, and much more.
Just go to the site and sign up with your gsa.gov address. It takes less than a minute to get access to this great resource.
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ICYMI: Messages from GSA Leadership
Sept. 3rd: In recognition of National Preparedness Month this September, Office of Mission Assurance Associate Administrator Bobby Carter shares resources for ensuring you're ready in the event of an emergency
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 Erik Ebinger (BGF)!
Shout out to Erik for updating our Exception Log Tracker to make use of Smartsheet and its automation capability. This change will help our team through automated follow up to gather required amendments and clear exceptions when those documents are provided. Outstanding work identifying an opportunity to Automate!
Submitted by: John Willett (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. If you would like to learn more about the OCFO Analytics Community of Practice, you can sign up for updates here.
Save the Date: COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar on Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI
Tune in on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern for the latest installment of the Committee of the Presidents of Statistical Societies - National Institute of Statistical Sciences (COPSS-NISS) Leadership Webinar Series. This session features distinguished speakers Arnaud Doucet from Oxford University and Google DeepMind, and Bin Yu from UC Berkeley, with moderation by Edgar Dobriban of the University of Pennsylvania.
Gain insights into leadership in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence from experts who are at the forefront of these fields. Register via Zoom.
Catch up on past webinars by visiting the COPSS-NISS leadership webinar series YouTube playlist to prepare for this insightful event.
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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 upcoming offerings on the Online University Events Calendar as well as on the GSA IT tech training calendar.
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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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