Ensure Cross Training for HRM Professionals

2. Require appropriate cross-training for human resource management
professionals.

The first and most important purpose of the EEO/AE Steering Group should
be to advocate effective cross-training and rotational assignments for
EEO, civil rights, and personnel professionals.  Agency heads should be
required to ensure that federal EEO and civil rights professionals
receive cross-training and rotational assignments in federal personnel
management before being promoted to supervisory and management
positions. They should also ensure that personnel professionals receive
cross-training and rotational assignments in federal EEO and civil
rights before they are promoted to supervisory and management positions.
EEOC and OPM should jointly identify the appropriate core training, as
well as the time frame in which the training should be obtained, to
foster human resource management competence throughout federal
agencies.

Collaboration between EEO, civil rights, and personnel professionals
will assist agencies in understanding, evaluating, and preventing
practices that give rise to EEO complaints.