SAN ANTONIO (Oct. 1, 2014) -- A program designed to set up GS-13 or equivalent employees for career success should begin in fiscal 2016, a Department of the Army human resources specialist told a group of U.S. Army Installation Management Command employees Sept. 24, at the Fort Sam Houston Theater here.
Enterprise Talent Management, or ETM, will prepare senior civilians to assume positions of greater responsibility across the Department of Army, said Angel Maldonado, from the Assistant Secretary of the Army Manpower and Reserve Affairs' Civilian Senior Leader Management Office.
"In the past, there have not been structured developmental programs that allow civilians to attend leadership training and be able to get placed after the training has concluded," said Maldonado.
For the first time ever, the civilian community has evolved to a structure program to be more marketable as part of the civilian workforce transformation, Maldonado added.
ETM is modeled after the Senior Enterprise Talent Management program, known as SETM, which has been around several years. SETM was developed collaboratively as a Civilian Workforce Transformation initiative and administered by the Civilian Senior Leader Management Office, Assistant Secretary of the Army Manpower and Reserve Affairs, is open to GS-14 and GS-15 or equivalent employees who wish to apply for participation.
According to the Army Civilian Training and Leadership Development website, the SETM program comprises the following four modules:
• The Enterprise Placement Program is open to GS-15 or equivalent employees, who apply and are selected as Army Enterprise Employees. Army Enterprise Employees are slated for consideration for placement into positions across the Army that will broaden their skills and prepare them for greater challenges.
• SETM-Temporary Duty is a short-term developmental assignment program for GS-14 to GS-15 or equivalent employees. Participants are temporarily assigned to work on a special command-nominated project as part of a working group, or to fill a critical-need detail for a period not to exceed 179 days.
• Senior Service College is open to applicants in grades GS-14 to GS-15 (or equivalent) who compete for allocated seats at the U.S. Army War College or the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Attendance at SSC is designed to expand the participants' knowledge of the national security mission, understanding of complex policy and operational challenges faced by senior DOD and Army officials.
• The Defense Senior Leader Development Program is a two-year program designed to develop the enterprise-wide perspective needed to lead organizations in the joint inter-agency and multinational environment. This includes attendance at another service's Senior Service College, leadership seminars and a follow-on developmental assignment.
Karen Perkins, IMCOM human resource director, says she hopes IMCOM employees understand that the command is all in on civilian leader development and the individual capitalizes on everything that the Army has to offer.
To take advantage of any of these opportunities, an employee must apply via the SETM automated system.
For more information and to learn about the opportunities available through SETM, go to www.csldo.army.mil. For more information about Army Civilian Training and Leadership Development, visit www.civiliantraining.army.mil.
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