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By: FEDweek StaffOPM has said it will begin annual agency human capital reviews in April, telling agencies it will be an opportunity “to engage in interactive dialogue, leveraging OPM’s partnership to identify and share successful practices, identify root causes of issues, develop solutions, and highlight crosscutting organizational challenges within your agency.”
The reviews involve agency leadership and officials from OPM’s policy, oversight and products and services branches and “will focus primarily on human capital results achieved and challenges remaining, linked specifically to goals in agency human capital operating plans and the President’s Management Agenda,” a memo said.
“We are particularly interested in learning about the strides your agency is making towards achieving a modern workforce for the 21st century. This includes strategically hiring employees with the proper skills to align with evolving mission needs, engaging the workforce, and re-skilling employees as necessary. The HCR also includes a discussion of agency progress in meeting governmentwide priorities in the federal workforce priority report, such as closing skill gaps and effectively using data to drive decisions and improve processes,” it said.
The review is an opportunity for an agency “to showcase its successes in the implementation of human capital objectives; obtain focused, high-level, feedback from OPM on its strategic human capital progress, and demonstrate its application of the driving tenets of the PMA: Mission, Service, and Stewardship.”
Agencies are to designate a main point of contact by the end of this month.
