Jeff Neal
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The White House is launching a leadership development program so small the participants could easily fit around a single conference table. Yet if successful, they could revolutionize the way the government tackles its most complex problems.
July 01, 2015 -
This column was originally published on Jeff Neal’s blog, ChiefHRO.com, and was republished here with permission from the author. The short answer is no. Just because someone made off with data on millions of employees,…
June 24, 2015 -
Jeff Neal, senior vice president at ICF International, and Dan Mintz, principal at ESEM Consulting, count down the week\'s top federal stories with Francis Rose.
June 12, 2015 -
Commentary: Former DHS human capital exec Jeff Neal says we should rethink how HR approaches this responsibility of protecting the personal data of federal workers.
June 11, 2015 -
The breach of the Office of Personnel Management\'s network focuses attention on hiring cyber professionals. A hand-picked group of agencies can soon take advantage of a short-term hiring authority to find new cybersecurity and digital services professionals. OPM says appointments must be for one of the Smarter IT Delivery Initiative programs. Jeff Neal, senior vice president at ICF International, is a former chief human capital officer at the Homeland Security Department. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose why agencies are force-fitting new jobs into a General Schedule system that is too old to handle a mobile talent pool of cyber professionals.
June 08, 2015 -
Commentary: Former DHS human capital exec Jeff Neal asks: Why does government not compete effectively? Can we address the problems? Or is government never going to be able to compete?
June 05, 2015 -
President Barack Obama\'s memo directing OPM and federal agencies to implement leave practices that support parental leave was a good start, but more needs to be done, says former DHS human capital exec Jeff Neal.
May 01, 2015 -
The key to SES reform is not about tweaking the SES or writing a set of guiding principles that no one will follow. Former DHS human capital exec Jeff Neal takes you inside his idea for an entirely new merit-based construct, neither career nor political, that is focused on a much smaller number of critical federal jobs.
March 26, 2015 -
Jenny Mattingley hosts a roundtable discussion of the recently released Government Accountability Report on federal employee performance. March 20, 2015
March 20, 2015 -
Bureaucracies may be good at some things, but they always excel at one — self-preservation, says Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International and former Chief Human Capital Officer at the Department of Homeland Security.
March 19, 2015 -
Rep. Chris van Hollen (D-Md.) wants to know how many contractors work for the federal government. But the Congressional Budget Office says it's impossible to count right now. Jeff Neal is Senior Vice President for ICF International, and former Chief Human Capital Officer of the Homeland Security Department. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he said knowing the amount of federal contractors won't make a big difference if efficiency is the goal.
March 16, 2015 -
The Congressional Budget Office recently revealed that it didn't have any comprehensive information about the size of the federal government's contracted workforce. Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International and former chief human capital officer at the Department of Homeland Security, says knowing that number might not matter too much to taxpayers in the long run.
March 13, 2015 -
More and more people are finding their jobs are not only following them home, they follow them like shadows throughout their time away from work. Jeff Neal, Senior Vice President of ICF International, and former Chief Human Capital Officer of the Homeland Security Department, wonders if this constant contact with work more a burden or a blessing.
March 04, 2015 -
Former DHS chief human capital officer Jeff Neal talks about the real costs behind shutting down an agency.
February 25, 2015 -
Is it fair to make teleworking federal employees work during a snow day when the rest of the government is closed? Jeff Neal, former Chief Human Capital Officer of the Homeland Security Department, thinks so.
February 17, 2015