Course Course Summary Section 1 Content Section 1 Content Left Section 1 Content Right Credit Type: Course ACE ID: OPM-0025 Organization: U.S. Office of Personnel Management Location: Classroom-based Length: 59.5 hours (in-class time over 2 weeks) Dates Offered: 10/1/2000 - 5/31/2016 Credit Recommendation & Competencies Section 2 Content Section 2 Content Left Section 2 Content Right 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 Section 3 Content Section 3 Content Left Section 3 Content Right 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 Section 4 Content Section 4 Content Left Section 4 Content Right Instructional Strategies: Audio Visual Materials Computer Based Training Discussion Learner Presentations Lectures Project-based Instruction Supplemental Materials Section 5 Content Section 5 Content Left Section 5 Content Right Section 6 Content Section 6 Content Left Section 6 Content Right Button Content Rail Content 1 Page Content