Developing Senior Executive Capabilities to Address National Priorities

Résumé du livre

The Senior Executive Service (SES) corps today is chiefly composed of highly skilled professionals in specific mission functions, with relatively few having cross-agency expertise. This report offers a practical, targeted approach for providing experienced career senior executives who can lead major, cross-agency initiatives on national priorities. The first part assesses the creation of a subset of experienced SES members who would be designated government-wide cross-agency leaders, taking on assignments involving multiple agencies focusing on common goals. These executives would be part of a new corporate executive management office under the direction of the President's Management Council or another government-wide sponsor such as the Performance Improvement Council. The second part is a case study of how the Department of Veterans Affairs created a corporate senior executive management office to more effectively develop, manage, and deploy its senior executive corps department-wide. --