About Us

Accomplishments:

The New Employee Checklist - Now in use by AETD management and supervisors. Possible Centerwide use under review by OHR.

The Goddard 101 Handbook - Now distributed to all new employees by the Office of Human Resources. The development of this handbook has prompted the Leadership Alchemy to consider making "Goddard 202: Advanced Topics".

The NEWB Websites - To help you find the answers to many questions new employees have, tell you what events are going on around Goddard, and much more!

Buddy Program - Due to the response by the Goddard Community, the Buddy Program has expanded to a Centerwide effort! Congratulations to Marcellus Proctor, Damon Bradley, Nylse Ortiz-Collazo and the Buddy Program Team for their enthusiastic efforts to get this program going!

Expansion to New Places - Welcome to Wallops Island! NEWB would like to extend a hearty Greenbelt welcome to its colleagues at Wallops Island, Virginia! Wallops Island will be collaborating with the Greenbelt facility to develop a Wallops-specific NEWB.

New Ideas from New Employees - New employees are encouraged to apply for IRAD and DDF funds, spearheaded by acting Chief Technologist, Peter Hughes. Congratulations to new employee Dr. Stephanie Getty, for winning a DDF in 2004!

Brief History:

In December 2003, Alda Simpson, AETD Deputy Director and Dan Krieger, Special Assistant to the Director of AETD, brought a small group of new employees together. These new employees had come to Goddard as interns, co-ops or fresh-out hires and converted to civil servant status or were current co-ops. In the past, some of them had talked to Dan about the lack of structure for new employees to get together and meet one another; some of them wondered about how they could develop their career at Goddard. Alda Simpson was interested in defining such a structure.

The group met, first calling themselves the New Employee Committee (NEC). Although there were less than 10 members at that time, there were many exciting ideas centered on developing community among new employees with an informal, yet informative feel. From this, the acronym NEWB, New Employee Welcoming Board, emerged.

A posting on the GOBBS website and AETD-all mailing in early 2004 produced an enthusiastic response from new employees center wide. At the time of this draft, NEWB has a core group of members dedicated to the welcoming, informing and socializing of new employees at Goddard. Alda Simpson retired in March 2004 and passed the baton to Bruce Butterworth, Deputy Director of Development and Planning.

The NEWBies take pride in what they have accomplished. In short time that they have been together they have: developed a website for on-line interaction and meeting; written a handbook entitled Goddard 101; developed a managerial checklist to aid in the pre-arrival, arrival and acclimation phases of the new employee (under review by AETD management with planned distribution in May 2004); had social gatherings at and outside of work to introduce NEWBies to each other.

Our Target Audience:

?Civil Servants with less than 5 - 6 years at Goddard

?PIPs

?Co-ops

?Interns