Leaders Recommend New Management-Staff Committee

If there was a singlemost message to come from the January 19 All-Staff Plenary Conference it is that communications between the organization's management and its employees must improve. That issue will be addressed soon as one of the priorities of a new committee comprised of managers and employees to work ways to improve internal communications as well as other concerns employees identified at their conference.

Managing Attorney Richard Helfrick of the Federal Defender Office and Chief Counsel Miriam Siefer of the Federal Defender Office join the discussion on improving employee-management communications.

Managers discussed internal communications in great detail at their recent Management Institute becaause it was identified by staff as being so important. A committee of managers and employees to address this and other issues was also a recommendation from the All-Staff Plenary Conference that was heartily endorsed by the managers.