Promoting Professional Development
TRC recognizes the benefits to and from employees who enhance their professional capabilities and qualifications through formal education.
Through the TRC Academy, we deliver a wide variety of professional development, compliance and required training. All new employees are enrolled in the academy as part of the on-boarding process.
Employees are assigned specific required courses. They can also access numerous other courses tailored to a variety of topics to comply with regulatory requirements, maintain professional and state licenses as well as access continuing education courses for business understanding, development, and enrichment. We also encourage membership in at least one technical society related to an employee’ s technical specialty.
In FY16, all employees received financial goals, and managers worked with employees to set business and professional development goals, as well. Our aim is to engage in meaningful dialogue regarding career development and performance on a regular basis with all employees which includes the newly implemented a formal annual review process. In FY16, 94 percent of full- and part-time employees received formal performance review.
Innovation and technology are key focus areas for TRC’ s growth. This will be a critical talent and engagement focus in 2017 and beyond to accelerate and advance a community of thought leadership, bringing new and innovative approaches to our clients.
Our FY17 employee engagement plans include strengthening critical programs such as our performance management and career development programs, while also launching new efforts such as supervisor / leadership training, as well as a project excellence awards program to recognize exemplary project teams.
TRC provides a two-tiered excellence in project management program designed to support the continuing improvement of our existing staff of talented project managers, as well as provide an opportunity to nurture and develop our aspiring project managers.
The two-day intensive sessions are presented in an interactive format and facilitated by seasoned project managers and company leaders. The on-site nature of the program allows our colleagues to interact with members of our team from all parts of the country and each of our practices.
Additionally, we recently launched a monthly webinar program- EPM Companion to provide live 45-minute project management refresher topics. These webinars are open to all TRC project managers and leadership.
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