# AI for Employee Performance Management in Government Course (Self-Paced)

Hands-on Training from Experts: Live Online or Self-Paced

Canonical URL: <https://www.graduateschool.edu/courses/ai-for-employee-performance-management-in-government-self-paced>

## Overview

Artificial Intelligence is changing how government supervisors and HR professionals set expectations, evaluate results, and reward employees. This interactive self-paced course equips government employees with practical tools to apply AI responsibly across the individual employee performance cycle — performance plans, progress monitoring, ratings, and awards.

Using real government examples and hands-on activities aligned to current OPM guidance, participants learn to support fair, transparent, and defensible appraisal decisions.

## What you'll learn

- Explain how AI supports data-driven employee performance management
- Identify AI applications consistent with OPM performance and awards guidance
- Apply AI tools ethically and effectively in employee evaluations and awards
- Develop a plan to integrate AI into your agency’s employee performance management process

## Curriculum

#### Module 1: Introduction to AI for Performance Management

- Performance management and mission
- Current performance management challenges
- AI basics for government HR
- How AI improves performance management, and the OPM guidance behind it
- The AI rating rubric in action

#### Module 2: AI Under the Ethics and Policy Lens

- Ethics of AI in evaluations
- The NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the GAO AI Accountability Framework
- HR policy lenses that still apply
- Policy-filter practice, and deciding whether to approve or reject an AI tool

#### Module 3: Application and Action Planning

- The AI Decision Playbook
- Leading change, mapping stakeholders and building trust
- Capstone: your agency AI plan

#### Module 4: Course Summary and Next Steps

- Putting it all together

## Instructors

### Steve Pesklo — Instructor

Steve is an energetic trainer who focuses on applying technical concepts to everyday work practices. He is the founder and president of SoftLake Solutions, a company that specializes in providing data and AI applications to identify fraud for Internal Audit, Criminal Investigations, Forensic Accounting, Privacy, and Compliance.

Steve brings a large amount of experience across multiple industries and government agencies. He is an expert in implementing large data analysis projects across the world, including Inland Revenue in the UK and Argentina, New Zealand, Africa and across Europe. Previously, he was the manager of Data Architecture and Data Services for a large mortgage company. He is a frequent speaker on data analytics and project management topics and speaks fluent German. He has been teaching at the Graduate School for over 10 years.

Steve has an M.B.A. from the University of St. Thomas and a B.S. in Computer Science from California Lutheran University and the Universität Salzburg in Austria. He is certified as a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Project Management Professional (PMP), and a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $675