Helping EPA Move to Higher Performance What EPA

“Helping EPA Move to Higher Performance What EPA Needs To Do To Be Successful” EPA Organizational Leadership Enterprise Presentation to the HRC May 2002 HPO National Change Conference Federal Executive Institute May 28, 2002

EPA’s Organizational Leadership Enterprise • • What is it? How are we doing it? Who is participating? What future activities are planned? Lessons learned? What is needed from the HRC? Panel Insights

What is it? • A context for organizational renewal, the work of the 21 st century • Moving organizations toward higher performance • Clarifying importance of work for individuals and the organization • Strengthening measurable results and accountability • Supporting the President’s Management Agenda and the Human Capital Plan

How are we doing it? • Under oversight of the National HRC per November 2000 briefing • Staffed by the EPA Institute and consists of an executive leadership seminar called the High Performance Organizations- 2 1/2 -3 day seminar--theory and levers of leadership; • Consulting Tools Seminar to build in-house capacity to help organizations make theory work for them- 2 1/2 day seminar; • National Dialogue Forums to help strengthen both communications and the network of participants who are implementing OLE initiativestwo per year. Three held to date • Consultation Services to work with implementers in follow-up work

Organizational Leadership Enterprise HPO Seminar Consulting Tools Seminar Consulting Services to Support Implementation OLE Network Dialogue Forums

Who is participating? Several program offices including Region 4, 5, 7, OSW, OARM, OPPTS, IG. and ORD Others interested include, OW Superfund, Region 9, and SES Candidate Program

Future Activities • Strengthen OLE Network • Participate in FEI’s National Change Conference • Sponsor fourth National OLE Dialogue Forum • Sponsor third Consulting Tools Seminar • Provide ongoing leadership consultation and coaching activities

Lessons Learned • Continued visible commitment from Senior Leadership; and • Adequate resources.

What we need from the HRC? • HRC attend HPO Seminar (December 2002) • HRC support for the OLE Charter • Influence 2 -3 new FTEs in each Region/Program Office- to provide organizational development consultation and executive coaching

LEADERSHIP FORM “The movement of organizations toward higher -performance will require relentless patience over a long period of time. It took many organizations a century or more to evolve to the point they are now, so it will take a dedicated, sustained, and steady effort at all levels of the organization to change the future. ” Darrell Maxwell, Navy Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) 4. 1 E Briefing, January 2001

Champions Panel • • • Daiva Balkus Russ Wright Howard Corcoran John Meagher Elizabeth Cotsworth