Talent Development Rebuilds Countrywide
Training Program

This fiscal year, in response to feedback from the 2007 Employee Survey, the Board of County Commissioners reinvested in countywide training in an effort to invigorate its workforce and develop a new generation of managers and leaders.  • continued •

Facilitative Leadership: Tapping the Power of Participation Comes to Multnomah County

Ever been to a boring meeting in which little was accomplished? Facilitative Leadership provides training to managers and staff who want to lead action-oriented, well-structured meetings in which problems get solved through teamwork and consensus.  • continued •

Managers Learn About Performance Evaluation

Performance Planning and Review (PPR) is a new countywide initiative that teaches managers how to plan and evaluate the performance of exempt staff, focusing not only on what they accomplish, but they skills and competencies they use to get there.  • continued •

A Note from the Central HR Director

Dear County Employees,

Welcome to the first edition of our Talent Development newsletter! Talent Development is the section of Multnomah County’s Central Human Resources responsible for providing countywide training and leading organizational improvement activities.

In a work climate that is constantly changing, Central Human Resources believes timely, accessible communications with Multnomah County’s workforce helps us to stay on the same page about issues of critical importance.

We developed the Talent Development e-newsletter as a way of communicating upcoming trainings and activities to our valued “customer base”...the employees of Multnomah County.

Our hope is putting together the Talent Development newsletter is threefold:

• Increasing visibility of trainings of interest to all County employees;
  
  
• Providing a streamlined way for employees to find out about training and organizational development activities, as opposed to multiple mass email messages;
  
  
• Providing a venue for us to better understand what Multnomah County employees need from Central Human Resources and Talent Development.

Please let us know what you think.

— Travis Graves, Director        
Central Human Resources