PMKeyS opens the doors to many better career managment vehicles. Photo by Cpl Belinda Mepham, Army newspaper

New training for PMKeyS

Army Chief Clerks are now receiving PMKeyS Personnel Administration and Leave (PA&L) training that is successfully hitting the mark.

Courses started in Brisbane June 23, with training for 97 Army, one Navy, six Air Force and eight CSIG personnel in this region now complete.

Courses in Adelaide started on July 28, with subsequent courses being delivered progressively around the nation. Chief Clerks in Darwin will receive their training in
February 2004 given the busy program of activities for that region.

This PMKeyS Training Program is being provided in direct response to feedback from Army’s Chief Clerks in October and November 2002.

They clearly pointed out that the first two rounds of PMKeyS PA&L training did not help transactors bridge the chasm from old to new. This led to APC staff, specifically WO1 Michael Wright and WO2 Michael Spring, being tasked to rewrite the PMKeyS PA&L Training package, an activity that took from December 2002 to May 2003.

The APC is now delivering the package to all regions in conjunction with staff from ALTC and HQ 13 Bde.

Feedback from course students has been positive, with many realising that they have been routinely making mistakes with the entry of data into PMKeyS.

The course has been designed along train-the-trainer lines with attendees responsible to cascade their newfound knowledge to unit subordinates and others where they can assist.

ALTC has also accepted an offer from the APC to conduct training at that location given the important contribution that ALTC makes to capability sustainment.

The APC will also provide PMKeyS PA&L training to the Defence Service Centre (DSC) at Cooma in late August 2003
to help them transition to their new role of providing first line PMKeyS Help Desk services from September 1.

It is acknowledged that this is the third instance of PMKeyS PA&L training that has been delivered and that the first two attempts were inadequate for a variety of known reasons.

Recently, responsibility for PMKeyS training was reallocated to the Defence Education and Training Policy (DETP) Branch within the DPE.

The APC has held an initial meeting with DETP staff to share ideas on the way ahead with the development of an ADO PMKeyS Training Strategy and Plan, intended to provide a well-designed, top down training regime that will adequately support this Defence HR corporate system.

APC eNews is released monthly and is essential reading for Army’s PMKeyS transactors and browsers.
A range of useful PMKeyS information such as business processes and back copies of APC eNews, are provided at the PMKeyS Army web site: http://defweb.cbr.defence.gov.au/pmkeys/Army/

The APC point of contact is SO1 Information Management, Lt-Col Greg Tolcher, (02) 6266 4892.

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