The Office of Personnel Management has sent a memo to
agencies reminding them that the Workforce Flexibility
Act of 2004 requires agencies to regularly evaluate and
modify training programs and plans, to maintain strategic
alignment with their overall missions and to promote a
more strategic approach to agencies’ integration of
training programs in overall mission accomplishment. It
also requires agencies, in consultation with the OPM,
to establish a comprehensive management succession program
to provide managerial and leadership development to
managers.
OPM said it is reviewing existing leadership development
policies and is requesting agencies to submit their SES
CDP curriculum to OPM. “This will assist us in identifying
innovative approaches to leadership development being
used in the agencies to help develop best practices
models,” OPM said in the memo, which asked agencies to
provide their program curriculum/guide and agency point
of contact by July 31.
