A grant requires "training hours," so departments dump unrelated webinars into the tracker. Completions look fine; the strategic plan's needed competencies do not. What should HR do?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Hours in a grant box are not the same as skill the city actually needs. Dumping random webinars is like logging gym visits without lifting. Point the hours at the competencies in the strategic plan.
Full Explanation
When a grant requires training hours and departments dump unrelated webinars into the tracker, completions can look fine while strategic-plan competencies stay unmet. HR should rebuild the development mix around competencies the plan needs and use grant hours only for that work. Public grants are stewardship of restricted resources; filling hour boxes without building the skills residents' strategies require is compliance theater that wastes both money and staff time.
Keeping any webinar so the grant report stays green fails by concept: green hours are not green capability for the enterprise plan. Lowering the hour requirement and stopping tracking fails by abandoning both funder accountability and development measurement. Counting staff meetings as training hours fails because ordinary meetings are not competency-building instruction tied to strategic skills.
Exam caveat: grant rules may constrain eligible activities—map strategic competencies to allowable categories rather than inventing false equivalents that create audit risk. Operational check: publish a competency-to-course crosswalk, reject off-strategy entries in the tracker, and report both hours and competency attainment to leadership and the grant file each quarter.