WORKFORCE
THE WAR FOR TALENT SQUAD GOALS
The ideal remote team would have many of the same traits as a special forces unit with the ability to communicate effectively no matter a person’s rank, position or title. (Photo by Pfc. Thoman Johnson, 1st Special Forces Group)
commander who would say, ‘I really wish we did have an all-stop button that we could press,’ so everything would stop for one day and we could look at what’s going wrong and then figure it out. I feel like COVID, in some respects, was an ‘all- stop’ button.”
“I think most economists and people who study the future of work are sitting back and observing what the chain reaction is going to be, because we still haven’t fully felt the effects of COVID yet, when it comes to all of this,” Muskopf said. “What are remote work and hybrid work doing to us? Te good and the bad. I think it will be a very interesting challenge for the Army.”
For more information, go to the Office of Personnel Management’s Future of Work resource page:
https://go.usa.gov/xej5A.
Read more about telework in the Summer 2021 Career Navigator article by Jacqueline M. Hames at
https://go.usa.gov/xeje4 and learn tips for effective telework at https://
go.usa.gov/xejeT.
ELLEN SUMMEY provides contract support to the U. S. Army Acquisition Support Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as a writer and editor for SAIC. She holds an M.A.
in human relations from
the University of Oklahoma and a B.A. in mass communication from Louisiana State University. She is certified as a Project Management Professional, Change Management Professional and User Experience Manager, and has more than 15 years of communication experience in both the government and commercial sectors.
“The Army is at war. It is a war for our greatest strength and most important weapon system, and the outcome will determine our ability to win all future wars. It is a war for talent,” said Gen. Ed Daly, commanding general of U.S. Army Materiel Command. He’s not alone in that assessment. Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James C. McConville, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth, Training and Doctrine Command’s command- ing general, Gen. Paul E. Funk II, and many other senior leaders have echoed those same words about the challenge of recruiting and retaining the Soldiers and civilians who make up the Army’s workforce.
“We have to think anew about how we bring people into the Army,” Wormuth said. “Certainly, part of that is making sure we’re giving them the opportunities they want, taking care of them the way they want.”
“We need the best and brightest men and women to come into the United States Army, who repre- sent the diversity of the nation,” McConville said.
“We have the opportunity to better develop the next generation of talented leaders,” Daly said. “Because in the end, it is talent that will win this war. And winning matters.”
To that end, the Army and other federal organizations are getting a boost from the Office of Person- nel Management (OPM), which is working to improve recruitment
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