Highlights and Keynotes

Over the recent Labor Day holiday, I spent a few days exploring the Black Hills on two wheels – not the two wheels that come along with an engine and converges on Sturgis every year, but the kind that requires manual power and lots of sweat. One of the highlights of the trip was riding up Iron Mountain Road to the base of Mount Rushmore. While I loved every day of the trip (The Badlands! Custer State Park! Devil’s Tower!), if I had to choose just one day from the trip as the most meaningful, that day would be it.

Well, at FELTG we’ve adopted a training approach similar to highlights, but we’re calling it Keynotes. If there’s a topic you’re interested in but you can’t devote a full week or even a full day to the content, we can bring you the highlights in the form of a 90- or 120-minute Keynote Presentation. Whether you want to brief your agency’s senior leadership on the accountability systems in the civil service, to alert your employees about the agency’s position on sexual misconduct in the federal workplace, or anything in between, FELTG has you covered.

In the meantime, please enjoy the September Newsletter – the last one of FY 2019.

Take care,
Deb

Deborah J. Hopkins, FELTG President

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