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Principle 4: Build the Capability Needed to Address Administrative,
Educational, and Other Requirements Important to Supporting Workforce
Strategies:

In a December 2002 report, we identified key practices that agencies
need to employ to effectively take advantage of existing and new human
capital authorities.[Footnote 21] Two of these practices--ensuring that
the use of flexibilities is part of an overall human capital strategy
and ensuring stakeholder input in developing flexibilities-related
policies and procedures--are intrinsic to effective workforce planning
and have already been discussed. However, as agencies plan how to
implement specific workforce strategies that include flexibilities, it
is important that they also consider other practices that are important
to the effective use of flexibilities. These include the following: