Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry on Friday sent a memo to agency chief human capital officers, highlighting a new training effort that will focus on the importance of information-sharing and collaboration between federal agencies and state, local, tribal and private sector partners. In the near future, Berry said, the information-sharing program manager would present its "Culture of Sharing" training and incentive initiatives to the Chief Human Capital Officers Council.
Specific initiatives, Berry said, will include making information-sharing and collaboration central in the recruitment and performance evaluation of all employees; increasing and improving training programs through the development and sharing of curricula; encouraging the use of incentive awards for collaborative efforts throughout the federal government; and encouraging joint duty assignments and the creation of "communities of interest" around particular topics. "Information sharing and collaboration should be a common, core behavior across all departments and agencies," Berry wrote.
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Networking and information sharing are important tools but, with so much emphasis put on it has it ever made you stop and wonder why. Is it possible these people can not do their own jobs! When you can’t do your job you look for someone to tell you what to do and cry you need training and sharing of information. It must be nice to be the best and brightest.
JJC 11/04/09 07:32 am ET