Programs to Enhance Career Opportunities for Employees Sample Clauses

Programs to Enhance Career Opportunities for Employees. 1. Aspiring Leader Program (“ALP”) is offered at no cost to employees through the USDA Training Officers Consortium and the Virtual University, is intended for employees GS-9 through GS-12 who seek to enhance the following competencies: Accountability; Decisiveness; Conflict Management; Influencing/Negotiating; Customer Service; and Team Building. 2. Mentoring is a formal or informal relationship between two people, i.e., a senior mentor (usually outside the protégé's chain of supervision) and a junior protégé. Mentoring has been identified as an important influence in professional development in both the public and private sector. The war for talent is creating challenges within organization not only to recruit new talent, but to retain talent. Benefits of mentoring include increased employee performance, retention, commitment to the organization, and knowledge sharing. See USDA Departmental Regulation 4740-001, “USDA Mentoring Program” (February 1, 2012). 3. The USDA Detail Registry (sometimes called the “USDA Detail Opportunity Registry”) is a central “electronic bulletin board” where USDA organizations post announcements of non-competitive opportunities for details, and USDA employees may (A) access announcements consistent with their career goals and obtain instructions in how to apply, and/or (B) post a Detail Request to signal USDA Human Resources professionals of their interest in a detail and to explain what they would like to do in order to expand their skills and knowledge. See also Article 10, “Reassignments and Details”, above. 4. Coaching is designed to provide employees with the support they need to become better performers, and so it is common practice to preface coaching with some form of performance assessment or evaluation. Like mentoring, coaching programs can be formal or informal. 5. A Career Enhancement Program (“CEP”) is a system which the Employer may conduct and which focuses on Federal personnel policies and practices in developing and implementing specific career opportunities for lower- level (GS-1 through GS-9) employees who are in positions or one-grade interval occupational series that do not enable them to realize their full potential. a. The goals of the CEP are to: 1. Provide a vehicle through which employees with demonstrated potential may be competitively selected and thereafter trained for new career fields; 2. Provide the opportunity for further career enhancement in the chosen field, depending on work performance and...
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