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Beyond FEVS: Transforming Employee Feedback into Workforce Intelligence
For more than two decades, the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) served as the federal government’s primary tool for measuring employee engagement and workplace perceptions. Now, as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) shifts responsibility for annual employee surveys to individual agencies, federal leaders face both a new challenge and a significant opportunity. Under OPM’s…
When AI Ambition Meets Federal Reality
Across the federal government, the AI conversation has shifted. The question is no longer whether AI has potential; it’s how agencies can use it responsibly to support their missions while operating within real constraints and maintaining trust with employees, stakeholders, and the public. Many leaders find themselves at this moment. They see opportunities to reduce…
Navigating Change: A Practical Guide
If one thing is certain, it’s that we all experience change at some point in our careers. Whether driven by new technology, organizational restructuring, or external factors, change can have a significant impact on how we perceive our organizations, our roles, and even ourselves. Successfully adapting to change requires a flexible, thoughtful approach that balances…
AI Has Entered the I‑O Mainstream—Now Comes the Hard Part
This year’s Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference made one thing unmistakably clear: artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a fringe experiment in the field. In less than two years, AI has moved from an experiment to commonplace across nearly every I‑O discipline. The train has left the station and yet many organizations…
What Innovation and Creativity Really Are (And Why It Matters)
From federal agencies to Fortune 500 companies, innovation has become a top priority. Corporate R&D spending reached a record $1.3 trillion in 2024 (WIPO, 2025), and 83% of executives are calling innovation a strategic imperative. And for good reason. Research shows that innovation is crucial for firm survival and profitability (Ugur & Vivarelli, 2021; Cefis…
Unlocking the Power of AI Through Workforce Fluency
The Case for Building AI Fluency When we talk about AI fluency, we aren’t just talking about the technical skills needed to use AI tools, we are also talking about knowing what AI can do, how to use it responsibly, and how to think critically about its outputs. AI fluency is the ability to understand,…
Workforce Planning: How Many People Do We Really Need?
A strategic workforce planning model can help organizations answer this intangible question and right size their workforce while continuing to meet their missions. Workforce planning models are analytical management tools that use some combination of quantifiable factors (e.g., workload, complexity of work, budget, and performance data) to predict staffing requirements. In other words, they use…
Workforce Planning: A Chat with Lesley Perkins
This month, we’re diving into the wonderful world of workforce planning, which has long been a staple capability area at FMP. Lesley Perkins, one of FMP’s resident workforce planning gurus shares some thoughts on the basics of the process, how she first got involved with this work, considerations for organizations, and more. What is workforce…
A Quick Introduction to Workforce Planning (Revamped)
Workforce planning is a systematic process to align an organization’s future workforce to strategic priorities by anticipating and identifying work requirements, to include both the numbers and types of employees and skills the future work will require. Organizations typically plan workforce needs 3-5 years in the future and develop action plans to mitigate identified gaps….