Redefining HR Functions Amid the Evolution of the Workplace

The main point is that the pandemic shone a light on the need to ensure greater engagement and empowerment of employees. Almost for the first time, employees realized that they are in charge of their own destinies, so Martina Mangion says, we as HR teams need to be more competitive in how we attract, recruit, engage with and retain those employees. People now move laterally not just upwards if a competing role has better conditions or benefits. So upskilling has also become more important than ever before. On top of that, it is crucial that we have a diverse workforce …

Strategies to Attract and Retain the Next Generation of Leaders for Tomorrow’s Public Sector

In the forgotten past, people were happy to have a job and often stayed in their roles for many years even if they didn’t really enjoy what they were doing. In the last few decades this started to change and now, especially after the pandemic, the job alone is not enough to sustain employees. It is about the workforce and the workplace as much as the work itself. For instance, the demographics of most workplaces will soon change with the retirement of the baby-boomers and incoming of the next generation who have a different priority as they join the workforce. …

Speaker Spotlight Q&A: John Kaschak, Executive Deputy Secretary at Pennsylvania Department of Revenue

Conversely, COVID has led to a lot more emails and far fewer face-to-face interactions. And, despite leveraging technology such as Skype, Teams, etc. relationship and team building is much harder. Onboarding and training of new personnel have been more difficult. And we’ve learned that departmentwide communication has had its challenges. Employee awareness and engagement have suffered a bit.

Speaker Spotlight Q&A: Jenny Hedderman, Esq., State Risk Counsel, Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Jenny Hedderman, Esq., State Risk Counsel, Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Risk Counsel with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Comptroller’s Office. An expert and creative strategist in Government legal, finance, Risk Management and internal controls including Cybersecurity. Created CTR Cyber for cyber internal controls, speaker, Host of CTR Cyber 5 Series (Youtube), Professor and Board Member. Your Government Keynote: Risk & Reward: Cybersecurity and Privacy Awareness will detail how privacy awareness is a crucial component of cyber protection for the public sector - as it helps define the overall privacy culture in an organization. Mechanisms in place will help …

NSW Government Service Innovation

We surveyed over 1600 public sector leaders and the results are in. Take a look at the biggest trends, challenges and priorities shaping the future of government service innovation across the NSW public sector. Last year we saw a hybrid format with 253 leaders from across the state gathering in person and 1,356 joining us online. In 2022 the event is back bigger and better, with a completely in-person program. In partnership with the NSW Government, the Digital.NSW Showcase will share detailed examples of how NSW departments and agencies enable greater accessibility by addressing the digital divide and improving connectivity …

API Design and Development: Creating and Executing the Roadmap

It is common knowledge that technology dominates our lives, and that we interact with computers or the technology within them multiple times a day. Computers power our cars, many appliances within our homes, our mobile devices and so many other unseen devices and operations. They are also used heavily within government services, and not just in a visible way. The backend operations of most government agencies are usually busy hives of banks of computers operating all manner of systems and processes. Many of these computers and systems can communicate with each other because of Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, and …

Speaker Spotlight Q&A: Chris Letterman, Chief Information Security Officer, State of Alaska, Department of Administration 

Born and raised in Kentucky, I am the youngest of 6 and straight from college (@University of Louisville) I joined the U.S. Navy to serve as an Electronics Technician. While in, I was chosen to attend specialty school in crypto and communication security. The Navy is what brought me to Alaska back in 1994. After the Navy, I relocated to Juneau and immediately fell into an opportunity to work for a national communications company building out a cellular network. I started my career in public service with the State of Alaska in 1998, and since then have worked for the …

HR & Future of Work Roadshow 2022 Highlights

The work of government and the way government works is changing, yet there continues to be a preoccupation with cost optimisation, cost reduction, and sustainable cost management. This has required HR to play its part, largely through making the HR function more efficient, but not necessarily more effective. The people aspect in government organisations contains some truly business-critical issues and the need for HR to rise to these challenges has never been more acute.