(a) “Coaching” means a manager, supervisor, or peer acts as a guide and tutor for the employee. Coaching involves demonstration, instruction, discussion, feedback, encouragement, objective evaluation, and correction where appropriate.

(b) “Committee assignment” or “working group assignment” means the employee is assigned to be a member of a committee or working group that is tasked with problem solving and making recommendations.

(c) “Cross training” means under appropriate guidance and supervision an employee performs the duties and functions of another position within the same or different classification.

(d) “Job rotation” means under appropriate guidance and supervision an employee changes positions on regular intervals within the same classification and appointing power and eventually returns to his or her original position. A job rotation allows the employee to gain broader and/or more specialized competencies.

(e) “On-the-job training” or “OJT” means an employee learns a job by actually performing the duties and tasks of the job under appropriate guidance and supervision.

(f) “Special project assignment” means an individual or collaborative enterprise that the employee is to perform and accomplish over a fixed period of time and may include certain other limitations.

(g) “Appropriate training experience” means that for purposes of training and development assignments the level of duties, functions, and responsibilities of the “to” classification shall provide a reasonable opportunity for the employee to achieve the purpose(s) of the training and development assignment.

(h) “Consecutive temporary assignment or loan” means that within 12 months of the conclusion of the temporary assignment or loan the employee is reassigned or loaned to perform the same level of duties and responsibilities as the temporary assignment or loan previously concluded, without regard to location or reporting structure.

(i) “Former position” shall have the same meaning as in Government Code section 18522.

(j) “Current class” means the classification of the position to which the employee has been appointed and holds prior to a training and development assignment.