Supervisors & Managers

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The "Leading Change Initiatives" program helps managers and supervisors lead change within a team or large group. This program offers chances to explore personal and team change through interactive classwork.  Through class discussions, you will plan a change initiative that can be applied as soon as you return to work.

Learn VA’s history and initiatives in an interactive way. For each initiative, you can read engaging stories, listen to audio interviews, watch videos, read about VA’s ground-breaking research, and consider challenge questions. Whether you’ve worked at VA for two months or 20 years, the CLM will take you on a multimedia journey to help you:

• Better serve Veterans
• Collaborate with other VA employees
• Place VA’s future challenges in a historical context
• Understand why change matters to our mission at VA
• Learn how the work you do each day helps transform VA 

As you spend some time with this fun, interactive online tool, VA’s avatars show you how your on-the-job decisions help make VA more people-centric, results-oriented, and forward-thinking.

All available courses for VA employees to learn practical and functional skills. Updated quarterly, this training focuses on:

• Career and Technical Training (for all employees)
• Manager & Supervisor Training
• Transformational Leadership Training

You can receive credit for reviewing certain web-based training tutorials on this website. Credit is granted on the honor system. Once you review a tutorial:

• Contact your supervisor and/or local training management staff.
• Provide information about the web-based training you reviewed and the amount of time it took you to complete the review.

A year-long corporate leadership development program to develop high-performing leaders and foster lasting relationships among them. Open to VA employees from GS13 to GS15 (or title 38 equivalent). The application season for LVA 2012 is now closed. Thank you for your interest.

All VA employees are required to take the following two courses. There is other mandatory training for each Administration. Contact your local TMS administrator for more information. 

VA Privacy and Information Security Awareness Course: This course fulfills the mandatory annual awareness training required by law for all VA employees. It contains annual security information and general privacy training. Certificates of completion apply to the Information Security and Privacy Awareness requirements and the Rules of Behavior. 

Prevention of Workplace Harassment Course: The Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation (NO FEAR) Act of 2002 requires that all Federal employees receive training on their rights and responsibilities in the areas of equal employment opportunity, non-discrimination and whistleblower protections. In our effort to cultivate a fair, diverse, harassment-free work environment, we have combined previously separate mandatory training courses into one single course.

Supervisors & Managers: For those with no TMS access (e.g., contractors), you can print a PDF version of this course. This PDF is located under Related Documents on TMS. 

The average person will have five careers in their life. You can have them all without leaving VA. MyCareer@VA, a powerful career development resource, gives you the knowledge you need to grow your career with the agency. Uncover your career possibilities today with our one-of-a-kind development tools:

• Discover your options by using the Career Mapping Tool to identify potential next steps in your career based on your knowledge and skills.
• See where you fit with the Career Fit Tool, which matches your interests and work preferences to a wide range of jobs.
• Explore the possibilities with the VA Career Guides to learn more about the jobs that interest you at VA.

These valuable resources will uncover a wealth of opportunities at VA. So what are you waiting for?

OPM-certified program designed to increase the pool of qualified candidates for the Senior Executive Service (SES).

TMS: learning just got faster, easier and friendlier at VA.

• Sign up for courses
• Plan your career development
• Track your goals, objectives & Individual Development Plans
• Quickly access catalog search and calendar

For supervisors and managers with at least 3 years of supervisory experience at VA. Intermediate level training. Develop skills to bring about VA’s mission, especially in times of budget cuts. Learn to use the VA competency model. Produce greater value for Veterans and general public.

HOW TO APPLY
All applications must be submitted electronically to Sabrina Clark at Sabrina.clark@va.gov and submitted NO LATER THAN July 18, 2012. NO EXCEPTIONS

1. Open the PDF application.
2. The application cannot be saved. We recommend that you draft your answers in MS Word, then copy and paste into the PDF.
3. Print your completed application. Scan into an electronic file. Send to your supervisor for endorsement.
4. Ask your supervisor to attach a separate word document, or handwrite the endorsement.
5. Sign and date your application. Attach the supervisor endorsement if applicable, then email to Sabrina.Clark@va.gov. 

HOW SELECTION WORKS

1. All applications will be reviewed by VALU team members, TIME faculty, and Brookings Executive Education officials.
2. A list of ranked candidates will be sent to each Administration or staff office.
3. The final roster will be determined. Candidates will be notified no later than Aug 6, 2012.
4. Travel instructions and program logistics will be sent directly to those selected. 

 

How-to instructions for managing employee training, alternating supervisors, and getting credit for reviewing tutorials.

• Get alerts when employees do not take assigned training (PDF) 
• Register an employee (PDF)
• Record employee completion status (PDF)
• Manage your employee’s to-do list (Flash video)  |  Text transcript
• Manage your employee’s learning requests (Flash video)  |  Text transcript
• Assign Alternate Supervisor (PDF)
• Assign Delegate (PDF)

This suite of e-Learning modules aims to increase the awareness and understanding of the Veterans we serve so that VA staff may serve Veterans better.

MILITARY CULTURAL AWARENESS 
This course provides a common foundation for all VA employees. It offers an overview of common military culture and courtesies, roles and ranks within the military, differences between the branches of the armed services, some of the conflicts in which Veterans have served, and why this information is important in helping VA employees better serve the needs of Veterans and their families.

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CONNECTING WITH VETERANS 
This course introduces VA employees to recommended best practices and applicable information for interacting with Veterans. The course consists of lessons that provide Veterans’ stories and the reasons why establishing this connection is so important.

Through these stories and interactive instruction, VA employees will learn about VA’s administrations, customer best practices, the historical context, and medical conditions for Veterans who have served in military engagements and wars from WWII to the present day.

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SERVING WOMEN VETERANS 
Women Veterans are one of the fastest-growing groups of Veterans. In the Serving Women Veterans course, hear the stories of women Veterans, who served in conflicts from WWII to modern day, and learn how their experiences impact what they need from VA.

After completing Serving Women Veterans, you will be able to direct women Veterans to available VA benefits and services.

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