Professional Development and Training

Workforce Training Classes

• Strategic Planning Basics- Offered to any agency personnel involved with the development of the agency's strategic and/or operatioal plan. This class presents the principles of strategic planning and their application in Louisiana's process. Click here for class schedule.
• Basics of Workforce Planning Seminar & Workshop- Offered to agency Human Resource professionals and managers. Participants are instructed in basic elements of workforce planning, including analyzing the current workforce, predicting future needs, identifying the gap between present and future, and implementing programs that bridge the gap and allow the organization to accomplish its mission. This class is not currently scheduled, but you can click here to review the workshop handout. Also, the workshop presentation slides can be found here to review the course materials.
• Job Profiling Training- Offered to Human Resource professionals, this is a three-part training. The first component is a classroom Introduction to Job Profiling which presents the basic concepts of Job Profiling and provides participants with job aids and applicable resources. The second component is a Workshop in which participants apply their classroom skill by profiling a job from their own agency. The final component is an On-site Practicum in which DSCS experts provide hands-on assistance, guidance and advice to agency personnel in applying job profiling to meet their agency's unique needs. This class is not currently scheduled, but you can click here.
• Building Better Performance Through Employee Skill Development- Part of the mandatory curriculum for all state managers, this class gives managers practical tools to use in analyzing and addressing skill gaps in current employees and developing training plans for new hires. Click here for class schedule.