Budget and Performance:Tools for Enhancing Your Career

AABPA November 20, 2012

Career Development Tools

Individual Development Plans

Individual Development Plans (IDP) helps identify the employee’s career development goals and the strategies for achieving them. Typically, the employee will complete an IDP on an annual basis. This plan is intended to:

•Encourage the employee to take ownership of his/her career development •Provide an administrative mechanism for identifying and tracking development needs and plans •Assist in planning for the agency’s training and development requirements.

Informal Training

Cross-Training

Formal Training

• Employees should take advantage of formal training offered – classroom or online

• Many agencies have Learning Management Systems that include a suite of online courses (technical, soft skills)

HR University

Federal Government’s “one-stop” shop Human Resource Career Development Center

HR University (http://www.hru.gov)

•Professionalizes the HR career field

•Addresses competency and skills

•Identifies and offers the best HR training

•Achieves Governmentwide savings

HR University

• Over 100 courses have been vetted and are offered through HRU

• Over 16,000 registered users

• Cost savings ticker is at over $30 million

• Manager’s Corner provides critical training for first time supervisors and managers

• College level courses are approved and offered

Mentoring

Mentoring: Formal and Informal

• Many agencies run formal, stand-alone mentoring programs to enhance employee career development. Formal programs include a matching process, mentor/,mentee training, formal mentoring agreement, structured developmental activities, formal evaluation process, and a graduation ceremony

• Informal Mentoring is another option for employees to enter into a mentoring partnership. Informal mentoring has less structure and no formal matching process

• Informal mentoring is usually initiated by the mentee

Mentoring

Resources

• OPM Training and Development website http://www.opm.gov/hrd/lead/index.asp

• OPM Training and Development wiki http://www.opm.gov/WIKI/training/MainPage.ashx

• HR University http://www.hru.gov

Questions?