11/20/2009 - EM Update Newsletter - Issue 9

http://www.em.doe.gov/pdfs/11-20-09%20EM%20Update%20Newsletter.pdf

In This Issue

 Portsmouth Visit ..........................1
 All-Hands on Reorganization ......1
 In B rief .........................................1
 People ..........................................
 
All-Hands Meeting Set on  EM Reorganization
Assistant Secretary Triay will conduct an “all hands” meeting for all EM employees on Tuesday, December 1, to introduce the members of her new leadership team, share her vision of EM’s “Journey to Excellence” and outline the next steps for implementing EM’s reorganization and its new business model. The two-hour session will also include remarks from Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Dae Chung and Merle Sykes and Frank Marcinowski, the acting Chief Business and Technical Offi cers for EM. Barry Clark and Carolyn Haylock, the presidents of National Treasury Employees Union Chapters 213 and 228, respectively, will also speak. The meeting will take place via a video conference linking headquarters to 21 EM field offi ces. An audio hookup will also be available for those offi ces without video capability.

The first hour of the session will consist of remarks from Triay and other speakers. The second hour will be devoted to answering questions from EM employees. EM’s reorganization and new business model have been in development since last summer. The headquarters portion of the reorganization took effect last month after it had obtained all needed reviews and approvals. Its key features include a major shift in relationships between the fi eld and headquarters provides more operating authority to managers in the field, revamped roles and responsibilities for EM’s Deputy Assistant Secretaries and the creation of the Chief Business and Technical Offi cer positions.

Full implementation of the reorganization and the new business model will require setting the criteria EM must meet to become a highperforming organization, completing site and headquarters self-assessments and, ultimately, establishing a new organization-wide baseline for measuring EM’s future performance in areas such as project, contract and financial management, health and safety and quality assurance.