Learning & Development

To Department of Energy Learning and Workforce Development Community,

Our goal in the Office of Learning and Workforce Development (HC-20) is to make learning relevant and accessible to you in meeting today's and tomorrow's mission demands and opportunities.

We often become too involved in the mechanics of how training works and lose our focus on how learning and development can serve your current mission responsibilities and your career goals. Therefore, from time to time, we are going to put a statement here that reflects the importance of training and development to our shared missions:

Question: Why training?

Answer: Training from an organizational standpoint represents the opportunity for business improvement, innovation, and differentiation. Why does Google rule the world? Because it's doing what no one else can and it never rests on its laurels.

Even if you reduce training to its minimum effect, effective training and development is essential to business sustainability and survivability. If your people are not growing and developing, then your organization is not growing and developing. If you want your organization to survive in a world where technology becomes obsolete within six months and a news cycle lasts around 24 to 48 hours, then you must continuously improve your organization. One critical way to do that is through strategic choices in training selection, delivery, and accountability. It takes smart, proactive, mission-focused leadership and management to continuously improve.

Challenge: Are you ready?

The place to start on our website is the Guide to Learning & Development and be sure to make use of the our Training Consultants on your learning and development path.

Page last updated: 05/26/2009