Jeff Neal
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In the push and pull of agency oversight, who should be running the agency -- the inspector general or the agency head? Former DHS CHCO Jeff Neal weighs in.
February 11, 2016 -
That gap between how the public and private sectors embrace digital technology is at the heart of the most recent Federal Leaders Digital Insight Study.
February 04, 2016 -
In a Jan. 20 report, auditors for DHS determined that not only had the agency failed to address nearly 30 recommendations to improve training efficiencies, but the agency cannot keep track of its workforce training.
January 28, 2016 -
With all of the hype surrounding the passage of phased retirement, you might have expected thousands of people to have signed up. But only a relative handful have to date. Jeff Neal, former DHS chief human capital officer, offers a reason why.
January 21, 2016 -
With a new year, there will be developments that every federal worker should follow as they play out. Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International, lists seven things feds need to keep an eye on in 2016.
January 05, 2016 -
Across the federal government, there's quite a bit of agency-by-agency variation in the number of workers who choose to participate in the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. But some agencies are finding that they can boost their response rates pretty significantly by offering incentives to complete the survey. Do those incentives unfairly bias the results? Jeff Neal says there's no evidence for that, and agencies should want to see the highest response rates they can get on the survey. Neal is a former chief human capital officer at the Department of Homeland Security. He wrote a column on the subject. He talked with Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the types of incentives agencies can and can't offer.
December 21, 2015 -
Some federal agencies give non-monetary incentives to complete employee surveys. Why would they do that? And is it fair or stacking the deck?
December 14, 2015 -
Four Republican congressmen are urging the Government Accountability Office to review the practice of hiring political appointees into career federal civil service positions.
December 02, 2015 -
Federal executives talk a lot about the importance of human capital. The workforce, that is. But not enough of them engage in meaningful workforce planning. That's according to former Homeland Security HR-chief Jeff Neal, now with IFC International. Neal told Federal Drive with Tom Temin that's changing.
November 25, 2015 -
Salaries barely changed from fiscal 2013. But 12.2 percent more SES members received performance awards.
November 20, 2015 -
Agencies often go into great detail when they identify the skills and competencies they need for their own employees, then do very little to identify what they need when they use contractors to do the work.
November 18, 2015 -
Real leadership development takes an agency that is willing to make the investment of time and money needed to build strong supervisors, says Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International.
November 05, 2015 -
If human resources is so important and HR specialists are a mission critical occupation, why is it so rare to find someone who says they are happy with their HR support?
October 29, 2015 -
Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International, clarifies a couple of points addressed in his previous commentary on federal pay and addresses a few new ones.
October 26, 2015 -
Another report says that federal employees are overpaid. The numbers the Cato Institute uses are accurate, but they are not true. Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International and former chief human capital officer for the Homeland Security Department, writes at Chief HRO and he joins In Depth with Francis Rose to explain.
October 23, 2015