Posted on 04/04/2025 10:08:23 AM PDT by cgbg
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) is providing a new Senior Professional Performance Appraisal System, and accompanying Senior Professional Performance Plan that all agencies must adopt beginning with the Fiscal Year 2026 performance cycle...
the new Senior Professional Performance System and Program, and Plan will reinvigorate the Senior Professional Performance Appraisal System to ensure that it differentiates excellent from mediocre or poor performance; provides a meaningful basis to determine whether Senior Professionals should be retained; and ties Senior Professional bonuses directly to performance.
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Bottom line--all "outstanding" ratings are banned--ratings will be on a curve--and poor performers will be fired.
There is a lot of dead wood and/or DEI wood (in the Senior Executive Service.
Thank you President Trump.
tie bonuses directly to performance. here here!
What does a Senior Professional actually do?
The SES does not even attempt to do what it was created for; bring in top performers from industry for a few years to innovate and bring their knowledge of how to do business with the government back to industry. Now SES pay is far too low to attract that level of talent, and with fifteen years of stagnant fed pay, very few super troopers would want to be SES, so you get much lower quality talent. There are FAR too many as well. Why does a small organization require six SES level employees? It could probably be led by a Lieutenant Colonel or GS-13.
A lot of them are the CEO, CIO or Chief Scientist of federal organizations of several hundred to thousand employees. Example Aviation and Missle Center is a technology center under DEVCOM led by an SES. It has three directorates, probably each lead by a GS 15 level employee. I don’t work there, so not sure if they have other SES level slots, such as deputy, Chief Scientist, etc. There are hundreds of subordinate organizations, e.g. centers, activities, etc. under major commands or departments.
A typical medium size civilian government agency has twenty or so political appointees that come and go with each President.
They require senate approval and are supposed to be in charge of the agency.
The next level below them are career folks who are the Senior Executive Service.
There are probably three different scenarios in the real world.
Best case: Subject matter experts, totally politically neutral, help each administration navigate the complexities of the agency to accomplish the President’s mission.
Bad case 1: Sociopaths who are part of the Deep State. They become the government within the government and use their knowledge, skills and abilities to work with other SESs to keep the political appointees dazed and confused while the SESs follow their own agenda.
Bad case 2: DEI folks who are totally clueless and accomplish nothing at best or cause chaos at worst. They are incapable of accomplishing any mission—good or bad.
Precisely. I’ve seen it.
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