Training

The full suite of DCIPS training focuses on interactive, engaging and concise learning products. Please contact your training representative for additional information and to schedule instructor-led workshops. You may also begin taking a web-based training course by selecting from the list below.

You may also select one of the roadmaps below to see a list of recommended courses specific to your responsibility in DCIPS. The roadmaps highlight the general roles and responsibilities in DCIPS. If you have a special role to play, such as pay pool participants or HR specialists, see the section of the course listing below for Pay Pools and HR Practitioner courses.

Employee Roadmap

Supervisor/Manager Roadmap

Leader Roadmap

To see complete descriptions of the courses to include course summary, intended audience and course length, select the DCIPS Curriculum Course List.

Introduction

• DCIPS 101 (2 hours) - Highlights the key elements of DCIPS. This is a prerequisite for all training.
• Introduction to DCIPS for Military Supervisors (2 hours) - Targets military raters, reviewers, and supervisors of DCIPS employees. This course highlights major differences between military evaluation systems and DCIPS, their roles and responsibilities throughout the performance evaluation period, and explains the process and the standards by which all employees are evaluated.
• Introduction to DCIPS for Leaders: Achieving Results, Accomplishing Mission (2 hours) - Targets leaders who must understand performance management regulations and processes.
• Putting Yourself in the Other Person's Shoes (1 hour) - Provides strategies to improve communication.

Performance Management

• How Do I... A Guide to Completing Key Actions in the DCIPS PAA (August 2012) - Based on your role, the PAA tool guide provides step-by-step instructions for planning, managing, and rating performance.
• Rater Consistency Handbook. - Assists management teams in understanding and implementing rater consistency.
• The Key to Leading Your Mission (1 hour) - Reviews leader's critical roles in establishing, communicating, and implementing a strategy to guide a performance culture.
• Setting Performance Expectations (1 hour) - Explains how to translate standards into meaningful expectations.
• SMART Performance Objectives (2 hours) - Provides an overview for writing SMART performance objectives.
• Overcoming Challenges in Writing Performance Objectives (1 hour) - Explores possible solutions to common challenges learners may encounter when writing objectives.
• iSuccess: Writing SMART Performance Objectives and a Self Report of Accomplishments (1 hour) - Provides a step-by-step approach for writing SMART performance objectives, also addressing performance elements, and a self report of accomplishments.
• COACH for Success (1 hour) - Provides a model and process for effective coaching.
• Managing Your Manager (1 hour) - Provides employees tips on how to improve communication with their managers.
• Evaluating Performance and Preparing Performance Narratives (1 hour) - Describes how to rate performance objectives and elements consistently and fairly.
• How to Hold a Formal Feedback Review (1 hour) - Outlines the steps to take when preparing for the feedback review, during the feedback review, and after.

Pay Pools

• DCIPS Pay Pools, Performance, and You (1.5 hours) - Explains how performance management and the pay pool process are designed to ensure that employees are appropriately recognized and rewarded.
• DCIPS Pay Pool Advisor Guide - A working guide for pay pool advisors to use during mock and real pay pools.
• Pay Pools in Action (8 hours) - A workshop that provides an opportunity to practice conducting pay pool decisions and addresses steps that can be taken to ensure fairness and consistency.

HR Practitioner Courses

• HR Elements for HR Practitioners (DCIPS) (24 hours) - Provides the detailed guidance and practical exercises that HR Practitioners need to operate under DCIPS.