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Executive Program in Public Sector Governance
    Public Governance Best Practices

Program Audience

• This government training program is designed for public sector leaders, politicians, legislators, and professional public managers, and management candidates. The target audience includes parliament members, government agency managers, public policy consultants, policy and regulation specialists, and government relations managers at private sector companies and social support organizations.

• Note: This program is designed as an advanced training for government and corporate professionals; we do not accept students seeking initial employment, postsecondary education, or initial licensing programs.

Program Objectives 

• Provide 360-degree view of the public sector management function to integrate and align policy with governance strategy
• Offer experiential analysis of the challenges of public leaders and their government executives in leading and transforming their organizations
• Share government strategy insights from the world's most successful governments
• Review public sector governance frameworks, best practices, decision-making models and analysis tools
• Identify governance blind spots and improvement areas
• Explore government management best practices, tools, and decision-models for building high-performance government agencies
• Create a work-based project to help candidates develop strategic initiatives based on their unique set of issues, resources and business environment

  Program Modules

The program consists of 2 modules:

1. Public Governance Best Practices

2. Government Agency Management Best Practices

Module 1:Public Governance Best Practices

• A review of governance frameworks and systems
• Emerging trends, challenges and opportunities for governance and public sector management
• The best practices and pitfalls of current governing systems
• GNW /GND model for systematic analysis, design, implementation and evaluating of public policies and public investments
• Balancing between performance (freedom) and risk management (control)
• Global risk management, the changing new world order and national influence
• Interrelationship between the public sector, markets, international governance systems

Module 2: Government Agency Management Best Practices

• Emerging challenges of leading in the public sector
• The public executive leadership role, relationships, and change management best practices
• Strategic public planning
• Decision-making best practices and pitfalls
• Review of sources of bias in decision making and governance
• Culture, ethical values and behavior: The 7 principles of ethical governance framework: service, transparency, accountability, consistent, fairness, focus, integrity, and objectivity
• Stakeholders public accountability; transparency and reporting

Special Topics and Customization Requests (Additional Fee):

• Preventing corruption and agency capture
• Managing legalized corruption and abuse of power
• The benefits and risks of public-private partnership
• Public sector economics and the role of economics in governance
• Public finance role in governance
• Legislative and regulatory role of the state
• Judicial independence and the rule of law
• Role of national and international money and finance in governance
• A critical analysis of the United States governance system
• A critical analysis of the European Union governance system
• A critical analysis of the United Nations governance system
• Global governance and the changing world order - Analysis of emerging challenges and solutions
• Advanced advocacy and reform strategies
• Advanced risk management
• Review of structural reforms in the areas of labor markets, education and social security, health reforms, infrastructure, and privatization
• Identifying the key institutional power players and their influence in the United States and global governance system
• The role of the HR and administrative office in governance; expertise, policies, evaluation and audit

Training Model

• Experiential action learning

• 25%-50% theory and 50-75% experiential project work

• The development of executive management skills is based on KASAC executive education and management training model

Courseware Content (Customized)

The Public Sector Governance courseware includes the following:

1. Participant's training guide

2. Subject matter books

3. Executive summary of the subject matter:

   • Summary of essential concepts and leadership best practices

   • Examples and case studies

4. Public CEO's toolkit (management frameworks, decision-models, and checklists)

5. Experiential work-based assessment project

Performance Evaluation (Optional)

• Performance can be evaluated on the basis of individual or team project deliverables

• There are no Q&A exams or tests. Candidates can choose to complete customized experiential work-based projects such as developing a relevant analysis document, management strategy, action plan or a senior management presentation

• The program advisor will review the deliverables and provide improvement feedback. The evaluation is a form of management consulting and experiential coaching for performance improvement

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