EEO Training

The following training is MANDATORY for all Indian Affairs (BIA, BIE, and BTFA) employees to complete, which is available on DOI Talent:

Notification and Federal Employee Anti-Discrimination (No FEAR) Act Training

This course is structured as a live-action interactive video simulation. You will experience each scenario in real time from a first-person perspective. The training allows all employees to practice decision-making in simulated situations and learn how to address discrimination, harassment, and whistleblowing issues. There are four goals for this training:

• Recognizing and managing our rights and responsibilities regarding discrimination, harassment, whistleblowing, and diversity and inclusion;
• Exploring positive and effective ways to respond to real-life stresses, conduct, and performance situations;
• Enhancing interpersonal communication skills and strategies; and finally
• Increasing understanding of the importance of building a 21st-century Department of the Interior that reflects the diversity of America.
• Completing this course fulfills the Department's biennial training requirements pursuant to the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-Discrimination Act of 2002, also called the No Fear Act.

Prevention and Elimination of Harassing Conduct

All employees must read, understand, and comply with the Department's Personnel Bulletin (PB) 18-01: Prevention and Elimination of Harassing Conduct Policy.

Responding to Discrimination and Harassing Conduct

This training aims to provide employees with the knowledge and resources to identify unlawful discrimination (including unlawful harassment and retaliation) and harassing conduct and to inform them about what to do if they experience harassment of any kind.

EEO and Preventing Discrimination in the Federal Workplace

• Audience: Supervisors and Managers; Hiring and Selecting Officials; Human Resources/Capital Practitioners and Professionals
• Purpose: To identify and learn about EEO laws that guide the agency’s recruiting efforts and how to ensure fair and lawful hiring practices. 

EEO and Lawful Hiring

• Audience: Supervisors and Managers; Hiring and Selecting Officials; Human Resources/Capital Practitioners and Professionals
• Purpose: To identify and learn about EEO laws that guide the agency’s recruiting efforts and how to ensure fair and lawful hiring practices.

In addition to required EEO training, DOI offers online and in-person courses that can provide useful tools for developing basic and advanced leadership skills and handling more complex situations such as conflict management, reasonable accommodation, and performance management. The following table contains examples of classes offered within DOI Learn. This is by no means an all-inclusive list of what training may be helpful for leaders.

The Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights Programs (OEOCRP) offers comprehensive and interactive EEO training to all employees in the following platforms upon request:

• EEO Training for Employees
• EEO Training for New Employees
• EEO Training for New Supervisors & Managers
• EEO Training for Supervisors & Managers
• EEO Training for Senior Management