20. Department of Veterans Affairs · Minor
Train VA leaders and managers on workplace culture and reward performance
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“Train leaders and managers to promote an energized and productive workplace culture and reward those who do it well. Ensure that senior leaders (SES) set the proper example.”
What has happened
- Partially done
Two of the Quote's three parts are documented. On training, VA's FY2027 congressional submission reports enterprise-wide developmental programs reaching "more than 40,000 supervisors through VA's Supervisors University", 17 million courses completed through the Talent Management System, and 3,600 participants in the Virtual Aspiring Supervisors Program, a 53% increase over 2024. On rewarding those who do it well at the SES level, VA "[s]trengthened executive performance and accountability framework by modernizing and executing performance management reforms aligned with OPM guidance across SES, Senior Leaders, and equivalent populations" and "reconstituted performance review board governance, training, and decision frameworks, ensuring meaningful distinctions in ratings and pay decisions affecting over 350 executives and senior level employees" — the Performance Review Board memberships were published in the Federal Register on 2025-10-24 and 2025-11-24. What is missing is the ask's own subject: no VA program trains leaders and managers on workplace culture as such, and the FY2027 IT submission cuts in the other direction, closing out Cyber Workforce Services and drawing down Professional Development Support Services in the Office of Information and Technology. `partial`.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Supervisors University and the Talent Management System predate the window; the figures above are the FY2025 accomplishments reported inside it, and the executive performance-management reform “aligned with OPM guidance” is new, flowing from the Presidential Memorandum of 2025-01-20 on career senior executives that #1798 records.
- VA Directive 5017/6, “Employee Recognition and Awards” (2026-07-16), was read in full (https://www.va.gov/vapubs/viewPublication.asp?Pub_ID=1745&FType=2): it updates award eligibility for optometrists and advanced practice nurses. Too narrow to carry this ask, so it is a lead.
- Action
- create
- Object
- VA leader and manager training
- ID
- 1803