RELATED June 06, 2025 Partnership for Public Service’s public comments on OPM’s “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service” (Schedule P/C) proposed rule June 02, 2025 Partnership for Public Service's public comments on OPM's "Assuring Responsive and Accountable Federal Executive Management" proposed rule April 24, 2025 New Partnership for Public Service polling shows majority of the American public concerned about cuts to the federal workforce and government services Back to Reports Preparing the People Pipeline: A Federal Succession Planning Primer June 7, 2011 The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton set out to explore how extensively agencies are planning, with a particular examination of an at-risk occupational area that ironically has responsibility for succession planning for the whole government: the federal HR workforce. We also set out to better understand the barriers to effective succession planning and to outline simple steps that will help federal managers get started today. Download (1m)