33% – 50% of the USPS executive population is eligible to retire over the next 3 – 5 years .

It’s interesting that recently the Office Of Inspector General  initiated a review of  USPS’s Corporate Succession Planning. The review or survey is for the purpose of determining if “Postal Service officials are effectively managing the corporate succession planning process to identify and develop potential leaders to assume executive manager positions.” The OIG review is scheduled to be completed by October 16, 2013.

Here is the USPS notice (partial) on Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) Website:

This Notice is intended to solicit input from the Executive Leadership Development and Corporate education communities about the requirements and conditions to design, develop, and deliver a program (or series of programs) targeted at , Vice President (Officer-level), and other highly designated individuals that would address specific leadership needs as identified in the United States Postal Service Officer Competency model.

The specific areas contained in Officer Competency model are:

•  Innovative Thinking

•  Big Picture Thinking

•  Leading People

• Leading Change

• Driving Accountability

•  Driving Results

•  Influencing, and

•  Collaboration

The United States Postal Service is engaged in a strategic transformation and recognizes the need to continually identify opportunities for leaders to adapt under changing conditions. Over the next 3 – 5 years, 33 – 50% of the USPS executive population is eligible to retire. It is the intent of this RFI to gather enough information to determine the validity of embarking on an internally designed delivery model for the USPS at the senior most level.

The USPS has facilitated leadership programs targeted at the mid-level manager to the mid-level executive that target behavioral learning. With a population of over 500,000, the USPS must continually address the pipeline for today and tomorrow’s leaders.

Project Requirements
The USPS is committed to providing the same level of dedicated service to the American people that it has for the past 238 years. The information contained in your response should adequately address varying ways of addressing behaviors that are most often aligned with successful organizational leaders in the private, public, and government sectors.

Your response should additionally include responses on design experience, development experience, and facilitation/delivery capability. It is anticipated that facilitated delivery of a Senior Executive program would be administered at the William F. Bolger Center in Potomac, Maryland. However, the USPS is not averse to real-world, experiential learning that may or may not be conducive to fixed environments.

Areas of Interest
Describe the recommended methodologies for determining the Return on Investment (ROI) for senior level program delivery as well as the methodology for pre- and post measures of evaluation (Kirkpatrick’s measurement levels).

•   Phase I: A description of what research steps would be required to determine requirements needs for the USPS

•   Phase II: What design methodology is used to develop a program as a stand-alone or series offered program for executives

•   Phase III: The determination of how programs would be delivered for greatest impact

Disclaimer and Important Notes

This Notice does not obligate the USPS to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The USPS reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this Notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed. Information provided will be used to assess alternatives available for the potential requirement and may lead to the development of a solicitation. Respondents are advised that the USPS is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response.

Submitting a Response:
Information must be submitted by September 16th, 2013. Responses can be submitted in Microsoft Word or pdf format, and must be via e-mail. Paper copies will not be accepted. Submissions are to be directed to Lisa Siegel, Contracting Officer, at lisa.siegel at usps.gov.

FYI- PostalReporter.com
Definition of ‘C-Suite’
A widely-used slang term used to collectively refer to a corporation’s most important senior executives. C-Suite gets its name because top senior executives’ titles tend to start with the letter C, for chief, as in chief executive officer, chief operating officer and chief information officer.

USPS Competency models are part of the Delivering Results, Innovation, Value and Efficiency (DRIVE) initiative, “Top Talent Development.”