U.S. Office of Government Ethics
1201 New York Ave., NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC  2005-3917


						July 12, 2007
						DT-07-020


MEMORANDUM

TO:		Designated Agency Ethics Officials

FROM:	Carolyn W. Chapman
		Associate Director for Education

SUBJECT:	Employee Crossword Puzzles


The U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) has developed a series
of ethics crossword puzzles to enhance your ethics training for
executive branch employees.  OGE will release a total of five
employee crossword puzzles on a variety of ethics topics.  The
first puzzle, on misuse of position, is now available.

The puzzles may be used for a variety of purposes.  For example, you
may distribute the puzzles:

* During in-person annual ethics training 
* As part of written annual ethics training during the two years in which you 
  do not provide verbaltraining 
* As part of a leadership initiative aimed at your agency’s supervisors, 
  encouraging them to discuss the answers with their employees at a 
  staff meeting 
* During presentations to employees 
* As part of your ethics or agency newsletter.

The misuse of position puzzle is available in three formats: a fillable
online version, a 508 compliant version, and a printed version.  All
versions are available on our web site at:
http://www.usoge.gov/pages/comp_web_trng/comp_web_trng.html.

Please note that the fillable version requires JAVA.  Therefore, please
check with your agency’s Information Resources staff to see if your
agency has JAVA enabled in your Internet browser.  The Section 508
compliant version requires employees to download and install Talking
Word Puzzle on their computers.  Again, please check with your agency’s
Information Resources staff.

For questions about the puzzles, please contact Gwen Cannon-Jenkins at
gcannon@oge.gov or 202-482-9219.