Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
OPM-0025
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
59.5 hours (in-class time over 2 weeks)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Graduate 4 Public Administration, Public Policy, Political Science, Management or Organizational Behavior
NOTE: For credit recommendation to apply, the student must have completed a research paper.
Description

Objective:

To prepare Federal managers for executive positions and to lead organizational responses to a dynamic and often unpredictable Federal and world environment.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the use of power and reciprocity in Congress
  • Understand the SES processes and procedures, and apply this understanding to own professional development and attainment of executive rank
  • Use enhanced Internet research skills to broaden a systematic understanding of the issues and actors surrounding change and policy decisions
  • Research the actors, factors and often competing needs and values that affect policy decisions
  • Draw a political map around the issues impacting one's own agency
  • Solve team problems and improve team skills
  • Formulate and deliver a targeted and compelling message
  • Use understanding of perspectives, strategies and tactics to diffuse hostile and rude questioning from the audience
  • Understand the Congressional, Federal, organizational, and other relationship perspectives and influences that constitute a Federal executive's working milieu and sphere of influence
  • Explore and differentiate the policies of the current Administration from those of the previous President
  • Discuss how these affect Federal agency missions and policies
  • Analyze and summarize the impact of change from a systems perspective on people and on organizational systems
  • Apply emotional intelligence and the DiSC to identify, then to improve, broaden, and make more agile one's own leadership style
  • Identify and work to resolve situations in which conflicting values create ethical dilemma or tension
  • Outline the dynamic that moves from strategic thinking to an articulated performance plan which then guides agency activities
  • Apply understanding of issues, systems and people to design a structural and functional change for a simulated government agency
  • Effectively promote and defend that agency's mission, goals and strategies
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Project-based Instruction
Supplemental Materials