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Event Policy Analysis for Non-Analyst
Date July 19, 2023
Description Learn to identify issues of public policy and discover the tools to effectively create, analyze, evaluate, and quantify public policy. CPM Competency: 5.7 Explain the policy analysis process and demonstrate analytical techniques. Desired Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the role of public policy. 2. Define policy analysis and describe its major elements. 3. Identify evaluative criteria and useful quantitative tools. 4. Perform policy analysis for your organization. 5. Make more informed decisions as a voter and as a community volunteer.
Price $225
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Event Budgeting for Public Managers
Date July 20, 2023
Description Being an effective public manager requires understanding the profession and the impact of a changing managerial environment. Step outside your daily duties to explore the history and characteristics of American public administration in this self-paced online course. Explore how the profession is changing, how your position is affected by trends outside the organization, and what issues you need to monitor in the coming year. CPM Competency: 2.5 Describe financial management processes, including budget preparation and monitoring, and purchasing, procurement and grant management. Desired Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the basic concepts and terminology of government budgeting and finance. 2. Explain the purposes of a budget for a public agency, including its role as a policy document, management tool, resource allocation plan, and a financial plan. 3. Describe the roles and responsibilities of managers, elected officials and the public in the development, adoption, implementation, and monitoring of a public budget. 4. Explain the basics of the governmental accounting and financial reporting systems. 5. Identify the essential steps, documents, and critical decision points in the budget development process. 6. Describe and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of different budget types and systems.
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Event Exploring and Reporting Your Data
Date August 15, 2023
Description Gain a better understanding of common data types, their purpose, and their limitations. You will have opportunities to analyze the data your organization has available, identify data gaps, and assess the strength of your information. You will also discover strategies for reporting data for different audiences. CPM Competency: 3.8 Demonstrate the practical use of theory, data and statistics in program planning and evaluation. Desired Learning Outcomes: 1. Provide a general explanation of social scientific research design. 2. Describe limitations of the scientific process in the everyday world. 3. Explain the implications of various kinds of survey research and the advantages and disadvantages of each. 4. Explain how a theory-based approach can be used in program planning and evaluation. 5. Describe descriptive statistical measures and their use in elementary data analysis.
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Event Managing Organizational Change
Date August 16, 2022
Description A living, growing organization depends upon continuous change. New ideas, new approaches, new customers, and new services are the life-blood of all great organizations¿especially those in the public sector. If public agencies fail to build employee readiness for change or to encourage and sustain employee commitment to emerging needs and directions, the end may be in sight! A key challenge for leaders in today¿s public sector organization is getting employees to see and understand the need for change, guide them in discovering new ways of working, and then help them to embrace these new ideas. This seminar explores strategies for communicating the need for change and ideas for building employee commitment to the ¿change we need!¿ CPM Competencies: 6.1 Recognize and promote organizational change. AND 6.3 Adapt to changes and setbacks and adjust to new situations. Desired Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how major change affects people emotionally and why it often leads to disruption and resistance. 2. Identify actions that leaders and others can take to enable a more healthy response in the face of change. 3. Identify actions that leaders must take to successfully introduce a change ¿ and then sustain employee commitment to the change. 4. Describe the forces currently driving change at your agency and in your department/work area ¿ and the forces for future changes. 5. Develop strategies for strengthening change resiliency in yourself and in others ¿making you and others hardy survivors rather than victims of change.
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Event Ethics, Values, and the Public Manager
Date September 20, 2023
Description Learn what is required for ethical decision making and ethical action. Find out how individual actions and the actions of groups are influenced by codes of ethics and by sanctions imposed for unethical conduct. Identify and discuss ethical dilemmas you face at work and elsewhere. Also discover your own ethical compass and how to use it effectively and consistently. CPM Competency: 1.1 Understand and promote principles of diversity, equity and inclusion AND 1.2 Promote high standards of honesty, integrity and ethical practices in your organization. Desired Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the key ethical issues in public sector management. 2. Articulate guidelines for ethical decision-making. 3. Apply an ethical decision-making model to public sector dilemmas and scenarios.
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Event Fearless Coaching for Public Managers
Date October 17, 2023
Description Learn the core foundations for becoming a fearless coach for your direct reports and explore the critical differences between coaching for compliance and coaching with compassion; discover the six steps for coaching with compassion that lead to positive change in others; and learn what questions to explore and which to avoid (and why) during your fearless coaching conversations. The session will include practicing conducting a fearless coaching with compassion conversation. CPM Competencies: 2.6 Recognize and use good practices in managing people, including recruiting, training, development, feedback, coaching and mentoring. AND 3.16 Practice collaborative development of an organizational vision. Desired Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the characteristics of a fearless coach and the outcomes that fearless coaches strive to achieve for others. 2. Discuss the difference between coaching for compliance and coaching with compassion ¿ and why it matters. 3. Conduct fearless coaching conversations with team members by exploring questions that enable positive emotional responses vs. negative ones. 4. Utilize the governing values and enacting behaviors of the Collaborative Mindset to strengthen their coaching partnerships.
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Event Dialogue, Deliberation, and Public Engagement
Date November 21, 2023
Description Public participation is a cornerstone of democracy, and yet engaging the public can be risky business. One bad experience can produce a career-lasting wariness of public engagement. This session is designed to help you determine when and how to engage the public so that it is a satisfying and informing process for everyone involved. We¿ll explore the different intentions of public education, public hearings, dialogue and deliberation processes. This interactive session will have plenty of practice time, allowing you to build on your own diagnosis and facilitation skills. CPM Competency: 5.4 Identify specific methods for public participation, the strengths and weaknesses of each, and appropriate ways to use public feedback. Desired Learning Outcomes: 1. Define the role of public managers in offering and leading public engagement experiences. 2. Learn when and how to engage participants in public issues. 3. Differentiate between the intended outcomes of engagement (sharing information), dialogue (building relationships) and deliberation (involving the public in decision-making). 4. Explore readily available processes for engagement like, National Issues Forum, the World Café, Community Visioning and Appreciative Inquiry. 5. Practice building your facilitation competencies for achieving positive outcomes.
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Event Human Resources Essentials for Public Managers
Date November 22, 2023
Description The purpose of this class is to provide public mangers and leaders and working knowledge of essential Human Resources affecting day-to-day operations and organizational compliance, employee and organizational development, and people management. Specific attention will be placed on the areas of recruiting and retention, total rewards design and management, employee performance management, and knowledge of, and compliance with, employment legal issues. The class provides both an overview of a broad range of personnel-related activities for managers, supervisors, and team leads, and necessary leader level familiarity with key Human Resources interactions with operational leaders. Desired Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the role, practices, and reasonable manager expectations of human resources professional in their organization. 2. Identify and describe the fundamental practices involved with job design and creation, recruiting, selection and retention. 3. Apply understanding of key employment laws to avoid legal liability and promote and more inclusive work team. 4. Understand with the design and purpose of Total Rewards programs (Compensation and Benefits). 5. Conduct or oversee a workplace investigation. 6. Effectively apply best practices for employee performance management and corrective actions.
Price $225
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