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Overview The operations and support functions of the transition team must provide the backbone for a fast moving, rapidly growing and changing office from spring of the election year through the inauguration. The various components (operations, human resources, legal, communications, congressional relations and president-elect support) can be structured in different ways, such as establishing each...

Incoming Administration Overview The goal of a presidential transition team is not only to help the president-elect prepare to take office, but to fill roughly 4,000 politically appointed positions, including more than 1,000 jobs requiring Senate confirmation. Identifying, selecting and securing Senate confirmation of presidential appointees requires a thorough understanding of the number and types...

Overview It is the job of the presidential transition policy team to prioritize the major issues and campaign promises that a candidate ran on and lay the groundwork for these policies to be implemented once the president-elect takes office. Policies must be prioritized and built into a formal agenda and implementation plan for the new...

Overview A successful presidential transition requires planning and preparation not only on the part of the incoming transition team, but also on the part of the outgoing president and administration. The 2008 Bush to Obama transition was widely regarded as one of the smoothest in recent history. Bush made the transition a top priority during...

Overview The various departments and agencies in the executive branch must be prepared for the significant policy and personnel changes that will occur with the election of a new president. In order to do this, agencies should designate a senior career official to serve as a transition coordinator in January of a presidential election year....

The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton released “Building the Enterprise: Nine Strategies for a More Integrated, Effective Government,” a report designed to assist the Obama administration’s efforts to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the federal government. “Building the Enterprise” calls on the administration to take a more coordinated, multiagency approach to...

On March 31, 2014, Partnership President and CEO Max Stier testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs about the management challenges facing our federal government.  In his testimony, Stier applauded the work that OMB is doing to improve government management and offered several ways in which Congress could augment these efforts....

Incoming Administration Overview The agency review team is responsible for collecting information about the unique roles and responsibilities of each major department and agency of the federal government, and providing information that is relevant, useful and important to the new administration. Incoming leadership needs a clear sense of the strengths, challenges, culture and pressing issues...

Despite unprecedented challenges, President Biden oversaw one of the most well-planned presidential transitions in U.S. history. The Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition supported this process behind the scenes, providing key insights to the Biden team as it prepared to potentially take office and working with stakeholders across government to facilitate an effective...

On December 12, 2013, Partnership President and CEO Max Stier testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security on employee morale at the Department of Homeland Security.