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20th Annual May Training Program

The 20th annual May Training Program will be held at the Arlington [Texas] Convention Center from 8:00am to 4:00pm on Tuesday, May 13th and Wednesday, May 14, 1997. The two-day training program consists of 13 professional speakers who will present 20 different workshops on a wide variety of topics such as motivation, organizational improvement, successful writing, sexual harrassment, communication strategies, career advancement, and many more. Some workshop titles include:

• How to Manage Projects, Priorities, and Deadlines;
  
• Communicate With Clarity, Confidence, andCreditability;
  
• Technology Never Stands Still.. Neither Should Your Career;
  
• Leapfrogging Roadblocks to Organizational Harmony;
  

Conference costs are $45 per day. Complete conference details are available at http://r6ser1.r06.epa.gov:8000/dfwfeb/calfwp.htm. The registration deadline is April 11,1997. For questions, please call Cheryl Moore, FWPC President, at 817-847-3898.

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) Seminar

This two-day seminar scheduled for May 1 and 2 at OPM [in Washington, DC], is designed to help Employee Assistance Program counselors and other mental health professionals in developing and managing a CISD team. The seminar prepares participants to provide a variety of crisis services for distressed employees after a traumatic event occurs at work. For more information call Sheila Rozier at (202) 606-1269.

Third Annual Performance Management Conference

May 13-14, 1997, in McLean, VA, at the McLean Hilton Hotel. This conference is designed to provide practical, cutting-edge information on a wide variety of topics related to performance appraisals and awards. To receive a brochure, call (202) 606-2720, or fax a request to (202) 606-2395. For additional conference information, call Digna Carballosa at (202) 606-1778 or E-Mail dmcarbal@opm.gov.

The following news summaries are from OPM AM, the daily newsletter of the Office of Personnel Management. OPM AM is available on OPM Mainstreet, the agency's electronic bulletin board, at 202-606-4800.

THE FEDERAL DIARY--Proposals to totally "reinvent" IRS "may be offered up Thursday when the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs holds a hearing on efforts to find solutions to management problems at the IRS" (The Washington Post, Sunday)...Readers discuss government management/worker ratio (The Washington Post, B2, Monday).

THE FEDERAL TIMES--The move to contract more work to the private sector is getting boosts from both Congress and the Clinton administration...Employees should not view the Government Performance and Results Act as a threat to their programs or a potential problem for the appraisals, administration officials say (The Federal Times, April 14).

BUDGET--National Weather officials have charged that proposed spending cuts in their agency's budget may increase the risk that the public may not get timely warnings about storms and other weather hazards (The Washington Post).

SSA--"The Social Security Administration, trying to speed service and cut costs by using the Internet, inadvertently has compromised the financial privacy of tens of millions of Americans" (USA TODAY).

GRIEVANCE--An employee at the Agency for International Development is involved in a lengthy and costly grievance over a promotion (The Washington Post).

DC SCHOOLS ONLINE--Vice President Gore has announced a $1 million effort by private industry, volunteers and the federal government to connect the District's public schools to the Internet (The Washington Post).