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Government Leader home > news stories
 11/16/07
 CHCO approve 2008 strategic plan
 By Richard W. Walker

The Chief Human Capital Officers Council has approved a fiscal 2008 strategic plan that includes improving federal telework programs and developing innovative strategies to recruit talented workers to government service.

The strategic plan was developed by the councils six subcommittees, which were created last year to enable the council to respond more rapidly to workforce needs. The subcommittees focus on emergency preparedness, hiring and succession planning, the Office of Management and Budgets Human Resources Line of Business, the human resources workforce, learning and development, and performance management.

Fiscal 2007 was a breakthrough year for the CHCO Councils six subcommittees as they accomplished activities that helped raise the profile of the council, and they provided recommendations for a variety of human capital initiatives to the Office of Personnel Management, said OPM director Linda Springer, who heads the council. We fully expect the subcommittees to build on those successes in FY 2008.

Council plans for 2008 call on CHCOs, their deputies and their employees to work more closely with OPM on its objectives. In addition to specific goals, the driving force behind the plans is fostering a partnership with OPM that identifies hurdles to progress and highlights and shares best practices that promote results-oriented, performance-based cultures, OPM said.

In announcing the councils plans for 2008, OPM also cited a list of its accomplishments from last year. These include: - Identifying, capturing and sharing workforce practices.
- Submitting recommendations to OPM for workforce programs for emergency preparedness table-top exercises.
- Providing input into a return-on-investment tool for assessing the impact of the Federal Career Day Job Fairs.
- Working with OPM to develop, host and co-sponsor a Human Capital Innovation and Transformation Summit.
- Assisting in the development of a list of frequently asked questions for the HR LOB initiative.
- Organizing CHCO Council Training Academy sessions on performance management and learning and development.
Richard W. Walker writes for Federal Computer Week, an 1105 Government Information Group publication.


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