U.S. Department of State Fiscal Year 2019 Agency Financial Report

The Inaugural One Team Course at the Foreign Service Institute Secretary Pompeo introduced the launching of the One Team course through an email to all Department staff. 8/28/2019 FROM THE DESK OF: Mike Pompeo Secretary of State Team, We’ve hit another milestone—this week, our Foreign Service Institute launched the very first One Team course pilot. The four-day course builds upon the ideas expressed in our Professional Ethos to unite new employees around the “One Team, One Mission, One Future” vision and the unique history of the Department. The One Team course will supplement existing training to provide a common experience for new employees. For the first time, Foreign Service, Civil Service, Limited Non- Career Appointments, and political appointees will all learn side-by-side. Everyone will grow as one team together. In developing the One Team course, we drew heavily from your thoughts on what new Department employees should know and understand about the Department, especially the importance of working together. As a result, the course will: ■ ■ Explore the guiding principles of the Department, including our Professional Ethos; ■ ■ Help employees connect their efforts and that of their colleagues to the Department’s mission; ■ ■ Analyze how the Department’s work connects to the National Security Strategy, and the Department’s other strategic planning mechanisms; ■ ■ Examine the meaning of the Oath of Office; ■ ■ Investigate how the Department’s work directly benefits the American public; and ■ ■ Inform our team about key accomplishments and personnel in the Department’s history that spans more than 230 years. We’ve made the course light on lectures but full of “hands-on” engagement with the goal of helping participants see how they each contribute to our collective success as an organization. A full 85 of our colleagues are enrolled in this first pilot course. We will be asking them for (and expecting) a lot of feedback, which we will use to refine the course over several more trial runs this fall and in early 2020. Our goal is to finalize the course and begin ramping it up next year to accommodate the roughly 1,600-1,800 new employees that the Department onboards every year. To the Department’s managers and leaders, get ready to send your new employees to the course when it’s offered more broadly. This critical investment will ensure that each one of our future colleagues is best prepared to join our efforts as champions of American diplomacy. With gratitude, Mike Pompeo Secretary of State United States of America Counselor T. Ulrich Brechbuhl and Ambassador Dan Smith, Foreign Service Institute director, join a reception with students of the inaugural One Team course. Department of State 40 | U nited S tates D epartment of S tate 2019 A gency F inancial R eport