In addition to its annual conference, OGE offers numerous workshops and seminars throughout the year, both in Washington, DC and in other parts of the country, for executive branch ethics officials. OGE fully supports Executive Order 13160 mandating equal opportunity in all federally conducted education and training programs. In support of this policy, OGE provides procedures to follow in filing complaints alleging violations of the executive order. See EO 13160 & Rehabilitation Act, Sections 504 and 508 Procedures under Management at OGE.
TRAINING IN WASHINGTON, DC
All classroom training will be held at:
1201 New York Avenue, NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
Analyzing Gifts Issues
Gift rules in the federal Government are designed to prevent employees from giving and accepting inappropriate gifts. This course gives you as ethics officials the tools you need to help employees make sound decisions about gifts.
Course Length: 3 hours
Intended Audience: Ethics officials who want to learn the basic laws and regulations on giving and accepting gifts.
August 17 9:00AM - 12:00PM
September 2 9:00AM - 12:00PM
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Conflict-Free Job Searches
Job longevity is not an option for many generation X and Y employees. They pursue other jobs, on average, every 2-3 years. Often their pursuits take them out of Federal service. In addition, many retirement-age Federal employees are looking for jobs as they start the next chapter of their lives. This course equips you with the statutory and regulatory bases on which to advise employees on how to avoid job search conflicts.
Course Length: 4 hours
Intended Audience: New ethics officials or those who would like an introductory refresher on how to identify and resolve seeking employment issues.
July 20 9:00AM - 1:00PM
August 19 9:00AM - 1:00PM
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Elements of a Complete Ethics Program
This session is designed for new ethics officials. Its purpose is to clarify what an ethics program encompasses, what resources you should have available, and what "non-ethics isssues" you should familiarize yourself with. If you are not sure you are covering all the bases, this session will help you identify what you shouldd be including in your ethics program.
Session Length: 3 hours
Intended Audience: All ethics officials, particular, those new to ethics.
August 26 9:00AM - 12:00PM
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Ensuring Consistent Advice and Counsel Workshop
Providing advice and counsel to employees is an important function of ethics officials. Ensuring that the advice and counsel is consistent is a sound practice as it assures employees that responses to their questions are accurate and based on the principles of ethical conduct.
Attend the advice and counsel workshop where OGE facilitators will help you develop ways in which you can enhance this ethics program element.
Workshop Length: 3 hours
Intended Audience: Ethics officials who want to improve their ethics program through cooperation with the ethics community.
July 22 9:00AM - 12:00PM
September 28 9:00AM - 12:00PM
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Ethics 2.0 - Ways to Enhanced an Ethics Training Program with New Media Tools
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has embraced Web 2.0 tools and new media capacities to enhance its award winning ethics training program. This session will introduce you to how agencies can utilize new technology to enhance their ethics training and communications with employees. The session will include a walk-through of USAIDs internal website, highlighting its Ethipedia within the agency-wide wiki, Ethics Tips-of-the-Day program, and Collaboration Space, an internal resource for USAID attorneys around the world.
Session Length: 2 hours
Intended Audience: Ethics officials who want to enhance their ethics program utilizing new technology.
August 5 2:00PM - 4:00PM
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Essential Skills for Training Online
Would you like to provide live, instructor-led training to your agency's employees who are spread out across the country or even across the globe? In this participation-heavy course you will learn the skills needed to deliver effective, engaging, and interactive training using Web-conferencing technology. Session I is a short, mandatory introduction to web-based training. In Session II, you will experience the virtual classroom first as a student and then in Session III you will practice your newly learned skills as an instructor during the third session.
Course Length: Session I - 30 minutes
Session II - 2 hours
Session III - 2 hours
Intended Audience: This online course is intended for ethics officials who would like to provide live training over the Web.
August 10 (Session I) 2:00PM - 2:30PM
August 11 (Session II) 2:00PM - 4:00PM
August 12 (Session III) 2:00PM - 4:00PM
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Introduction to Conflicts of Interest - The Law, Appearances, and Prospective Employment
As a new ethics official, it is your job to accurately interpret the ethics rules that define ethical behavior. This requires recognizing when employees have conflicts of interest or even the appearance of conflicts. Conflicts take a variety of forms from violations of the conflict of interest laws to violations of the impartiality and seeking employment rules in the Standards of Conduct. As new ethics officials, it is important that you are knowledgeable in how to analyze conflicts. This course introduces you to ethics and shows you how to analyze conflicts of interest and impartiality issues.
Course Length: 2 Days
Intended Audience: Ethics officials who want to interpret the ethics rules that define ethical behavior.
August 3 - 4 9:30AM - 4:30PM
September 14 - 15 9:30AM - 4:30PM
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The Ethics Pledge Commitments
This session will review Executive Order 13490, outline the elements of the commitments set out in Paragraphs 1 through 5 of the Ethics Pledge, and identify how the Lobbying Disclosure Act is relevant to certain of the commitments.
Session Length: 1.5 hours
Intended Audience: Ethics officials who want to review the elements of the ethics pledge.
September 23 10:00AM - 11:30AM
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Working with 208 Exemptions
This session will provide a brief review of the criminal conflict of interest statute 18 U.S.C. 208 and will introduce participants to some of the most common exemptions to the statute issued by OGE in 5 CFR part 2640. Among the exemptions discussed will be the securities de minimis; sector fund de minimis; and exemptions for diversified mutual funds, employee benefit plans, leaves of absence from institutions of higher education, and employment interests of special Government employee advisory committee members.
Session Length: 2.5 hours
Intended Audience: Ethics officials who would like brief review of the criminal conflict of interest statute 18 U.S.C. § 208 and learn some of the most common exemptions to the statute issued by OGE in 5 CFR part 2640.
July 27 9:00AM - 11:30AM
September 16 9:00AM - 11:30AM
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TRAINING IN OTHER FEDERAL REGIONS
New Ethics Official Certificate Program (Atlanta, GA)
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics is pleased to announce a three-day New Ethics Official Certificate Program on September 21-23, 2010 in Atlanta, GA. The Certificate Program is designed for new ethics practitioners. There are no pre-requisites for this program. However, registration is limited to those who have performed ethics duties either full time or part time for no more than 3 years.
Program Length: 3 days
Intended Audience: New Ethics officials who have performed ethics duties either full time or part time for no more than 3 years.
Registration Information (PROGRAM IS FULL)
REQUEST FOR AN OGE SPEAKER/INSTRUCTOR
To request an OGE speaker or instructor for your agency's training event, please fill out our online form. A representative from the Program Services Division will contact you regarding your request. If you need assistance with submitting your request, please contact Kaneisha Cunningham at ktcunnin@oge.gov.