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Training & Performance Management

Performance Management is the systematic process by which an agency involves its employees, as individuals and members of a group, in improving organizational effectiveness in the accomplishment of agency mission and goals.

The singular function of training within performance management is to help produce change. Training facilitates the upgrading of a person’s skill or the addition of a new skill, which in turn can bring about the desired change an agency is seeking at the individual level and/or at the organizational level.

It is important to understand that training in and of itself cannot improve performance. However, training is an integral part of what is needed to accomplish individual and organizational goals.

The purpose of this page is to provide agencies with:

• Tools to train executives on the Basis Appraisal System
• Resources to assist in training employees, supervisors, managers and executives on performance management

Memoranda related to performance management:
The Basic Appraisal System Memo
The 2010 Government Performance Results Modernization Act (GPRA2010) 

Webcasts/Videos:
Making the Right Connections: Targeting the Best Competencies for Training
This webcast features the Merit Systems Protection Board study on the trainability of competencies.  This study is useful in determining methods of training for various competenies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKt5KzlbZs8&feature=youtu.be

OPM’s Training Evaluation Field Guide
This video provides a synopsis of OPM's Training Evaluation Field Guide.  Agencies should use the field guide to evaluate the effectiveness of their training and training programs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKez8NrRX1I

NRC New Supervisor Training—Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) & National Cancer Institute (NCI)
These webcasts are examples of how agencies consider training in the the performance of their supervisors (the NCI training begins at 26:55)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udTwHjNu6iE&feature=relmfu

Training:
SES performance appraisal system slides
Overview
"Deep Dive" detailed slides

Publications