OPM Touts Info-Sharing Culture

Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry on Friday sent a memo to agency chief human capital officers, highlighting a new training effort that will focus on the importance of information-sharing and collaboration between federal agencies and state, local, tribal and private sector partners. In the near future, Berry said, the information-sharing program manager would present its "Culture of Sharing" training and incentive initiatives to the Chief Human Capital Officers Council.

Specific initiatives, Berry said, will include making information-sharing and collaboration central in the recruitment and performance evaluation of all employees; increasing and improving training programs through the development and sharing of curricula; encouraging the use of incentive awards for collaborative efforts throughout the federal government; and encouraging joint duty assignments and the creation of "communities of interest" around particular topics. "Information sharing and collaboration should be a common, core behavior across all departments and agencies," Berry wrote.