Change at VA

  • Change Academy

    Academies bring together leaders and staff across an organization to discuss workplace issues and learn through custom courses. To plan a change academy for your organization, email valu.training@va.gov.

  • Change Certificate: "Becoming a Leader of Change Initiatives" (Mid Level Staff)

    Learn to recognize and embrace change using tools and techniques to assess risk, build influence and focus on success.

  • Change Certificate: "Leading Change Initiatives" (Supervisors & Managers)

    Learn creative problem solving techniques to build innovative solutions to an organization’s challenges.

  • Change Certificate: "Recognizing and Contributing to Change Initiatives" (Entry Level Staff)

    Learn to recognize and embrace change in the workplace and in life.

  • Community Learning Model (CLM)

    Learn VA’s history and initiatives in an interactive way. For each initiative, you can read engaging stories, listen to audio interviews, watch videos, read about VA’s ground-breaking research, and consider challenge questions. Whether you’ve worked at VA for two months or 20 years, the CLM will take you on a multimedia journey to help you:

    • Better serve Veterans
    • Collaborate with other VA employees
    • Place VA’s future challenges in a historical context
    • Understand why change matters to our mission at VA
    • Learn how the work you do each day helps transform VA 

    As you spend some time with this fun, interactive online tool, VA’s avatars show you how your on-the-job decisions help make VA more people-centric, results-oriented, and forward-thinking.

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Reviewed/Updated Date: August 4, 2011   |   Version: 1.12.0