Professional Development

Professional development plays an important role in keeping each of us current with the knowledge, skills and abilities we need to perform at a high level. IPS requires a minimum of 32 hours of professional development per year. There are several training programs going on throughout IPS.

Judie Martin runs our supervisors' training program. Every supervisor is required to attend a half-day session per quarter. During the first quarter we learned about conducting effective performance reviews. During the second quarter we learned about diversity in the work place. Two additional sessions are being planned for our 40 supervisors.

Sixteen employees from across IPS are participating in the IPS Leadership Academy. We finished two sessions last year in Townsend and Martin. This year we have visited Chattanooga and we will also visit Tullahoma and Memphis before the end of the year. The class is divided into teams and each is working on a Baldrige application as the class project.

These two programs involve about half our staff. We are nearly half way through the year - are you working your plan?