TRANSPORTATION

The Florida Department of Transportation's Annual Training Plan Development and Implementation Process combine direction from both a centralized training and development function and eight district training and development functions.

The process begins when a supervisor and employee begin to plan for an annual performance review. Each employee uses the outcomes of his or her Performance Review process to develop an Individual Training Plan (ITP).

Each work unit has a work unit Training Coordinator, which is a DOT employee who is assigned the additional responsibility for coordinating all training activity delivered to employees in his or her work unit. A Training Coordinator could also be responsible for coordinating all technical training programs delivered by employees from his or her work unit. A Training Coordinator enters the ITPs of all work unit employees into TRESS.

TRESS rolls up the data from all ITPs to generate work unit and district training plans. The same process is used to roll up the district plans into a Department of Transportation Master Training Plan.

Training Course Providers use the electronic needs generated by TRESS combined with needs determined by changes in rule, law, strategic plan, processes, equipment or other changes to develop a comprehensive annual training implementation plan. The training courses or other training activity included in the implementation plan are placed on the electronic TRESS Calendar of Courses.

Each work unit Training Coordinator checks the Mandatory and Position-Specific Training Requirements of the employees in his or her work unit against the scheduled TRESS training program deliverables. The Training Coordinator, with approval from the employees' supervisors, enrolls work unit employees in specific training courses or programs.

The appropriate Training Course Provider (or Instructor) confirms an employee's course attendance, delivers the training and then enters the training results into TRESS. TRESS adds the course result to an employee's Transcript and History. A transcript includes an employee's previous 24 months training activity and the course activity which remains on that employee's electronic Individual Training Plan. History contains the status of all training activity in which the employee has participated since he or she joined the Department of Transportation.