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Training Information

We are a continuing source for current human resource development trends and innovations. One of our goals is to provide you with up-to-date sources for training information and HRD issues. The following sites are just a few links to these resources:

CAREER ASSESMENT RESOURCES	CORE COMPETENCY RESOURCES	HUMAN CAPITAL RESOURCES	KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT RESOURCES
LEARNING TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES	TRAINING RESOURCES	OTHER RESOURCES

CAREER ASSESSMENT RESOURCES

• Career Manager
  Visit this website hosted by the Department of Interior. This website contains resources and tools on career assessment, career planning and career management. 
• America's Career InfoNet
  This website contains links to tools for career assessment, career planning, and career management.

CORE COMPETENCY RESOURCES

• U.S. Chief Financial Officers Council
• Joint Financial Management Improvement Program
• The Center for Applied Financial Management, renamed Treasury Advisory Services
  These websites contain documents about core competencies of the financial management field.
  
• Information Technology Core Competencies
  This CIO Council website contains the Clinger-Cohen competencies for those in the IT workforce.
• Center for Disease Control
  This website lists core competencies for public health practitioners.
• Oregon Department of Fish and Life 
  This website provides a core competency ladder and core competency list for management persons with the State of Oregon's Department of Fish and Life.
• Career Development for NASA Positions
  This website contains core competencies and behaviors for select positions in NASA.
• E-Learning Competencies
  This article describes 31 competencies that answer, "What knowledge and skills will enable people to select, manage, and use learning technologies for HRD work?"

HUMAN CAPITAL RESOURCES

• January 2000 GAO Report: Human Capital Key Principles from Nine Private Sector Companies 
  This report provides case illustrations that offer practical examples for agencies to consider as they work to improve their human capital strategies. The report is a pdf file.
• September 2000 Human Capital: A Self Assessment Checklist for Agency Leaders 
  This agency self-assessment checklist is a starting point for agencies to focus on valuing employees and aligning their human resource polices to support organizational performance goals. The checklist is a pdf file.
• January 2001 GAO Performance and Accountability Series: Major Management Challenges and Program Risks A Government Human Capital Key Principles from Nine Private Sector Companies 
  This report addresses a range of governmentwide challenges and opportunities to enhance the performance and accountability of the Federal Government. It is part of a special series, first issued in January 1999, entitled, the Performance and Accountability Series: Major Management Challenges and Program Risks. The report is a pdf file.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT RESOURCES

• Center for Army Lessons Learned
  This website is an example of Knowledge Management. It exists to collect and analyze data from a variety of current and historical sources, including Army operations and training events.
• KM.GOV
  KM.GOV is a part of FirstGov and serves as a portal to websites, workgroups, events, and resources that address knowledge management issues.

LEARNING TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES

• Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)
  Learn about the Department of Defense ADL initiative which is about activities focused on instructional content, development, and delivery using emerging technology for online learning. Also learn about other learning technology activities that are being developed.
• Environmental Protection Agency's National Enforcement Training Institute (EPA) 
  EPA's National Enforcement Training Institute trains Federal, State, Local and Tribal lawyers, inspectors, civil and criminal investigators, and technical experts in the enforcement of the Nation's environmental laws. The institute uses a balanced training approach using traditional classroom training, distance learning, and cooperative agreements with other organizations. This website also contains the proceedings of the Government Learning Technology Symposiums (GLTS) which are available for downloading through their clearinghouse.
  
• Federal Government Distance Learning Association (FGDLA)
  The FGDLA coordinates with the Government Alliance for Training and Education (GATE), the Government Education and Training Network (GETN), and the Government Resources and Capabilities Directory (GRCD) to provide information and promote distance learning within the Federal Government.
  
• General Services Administration On-Line University
  GSA hosts an on-line university for the Federal Acquisition Workforce. The university consists of multimedia tutorials, samples, forms, live audio broadcasts, on-line chat rooms for seminars, and instructor-led presentations.

TRAINING RESOURCES

• Air Force Acquisition Career Management Center
  Through this website, the Air Force acquisition workforce is informed on important career development issues.
• Department of Energy Universal Catalog
  The Department of Energy's Universal Catalog is an on-line index that links training catalogs from DOE sites across the country. DOE employees and contractors are able to locate any training program available in the DOE system right at their computer.
• Ethics Resource Library
  This website provides references to training seminars and computer-based training programs related to the executive branch ethics program.
  
• OPM's Federal Executive Institute
  For more than two decades, the Federal Executive Institute (FEI) has been charged with the development of generalist career executives. The FEI is an interagency residential learning center with a curriculum that addresses broad perspectives basic to effective performance in the senior executive service.
• Financial Management Service
  This website hosted by the Department of Treasury contains training courses for the financial manager.
• General Services Administration Sponsored Education and Training
  This website hosted by GSA contains training information on the Federal Acquisition Institute program, the IRM Certificate program, and the Information System Security training program.
• OPM's Management Development Centers
  OPM's Management Development Centers are exclusively dedicated to building the special brand of leadership required by America's dynamic and diverse workforce via seminars and instructor-led presentations.
• The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
  Federal employees with a strong career interest in issues of importance to the U.S.-Japan relationship now have the opportunity to apply for a Mike Mansfield Fellowship. During the two-year program, Fellows spend a year working full-time in Japanese government offices, preceded by a year of full-time rigorous language and area studies training in the United States. After completing the program, Fellows return to their U.S. agencies with proficiency in Japanese and practical, firsthand experience with Japan and its government that enables them to contribute to their agencies' Japan-related work.
  
• Tennessee Valley Authority University (TVA)
  Visit this site to see how TVA University provides an opportunity for its employees to gain knowledge and skills needed to meet agency goals; serves as a strategic tool for change; and enhances integration and coordination of all education and training activity at TVA.

OTHER RESOURCES

• Emergency Preparedness Training and Information 
  This webpage is your portal to some of the different kinds of training programs and general information that is available about emergency preparedness and terrorism awareness.
• Emotional Intelligence
  The Texas Department of Health defines various aspects of emotional intelligence on this webpage.
• Society for Organizational Learning
  Learn how Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline provides tools to improve organizational performance via this web site.