As federal agencies look for ways to improve productivity, they should concentrate on developing their most important resource—their human capital resource. Although federal civilian training has exceeded the recommended norms on several key indicators, training departments will have to do more with fewer resources. Several ideas and techniques are presented in this paper to stimulate divergent thinking on ways to cope with fulfilling the training department's mission, purpose and objectives during times of dwindling financial resources.
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