Training for Government
This workshop helps writers prepare a succinct document, with ideas logically presented and in an easy to-read format. You will learn how to analyze and structure your information, ensuring a concise first draft with a targeted summary. The workshop offers tips that apply to a wide range of templates and styles.
This one-day workshop will provide you with techniques to improve the style, tone and logical flow of your written documents. You will learn how to use a systematic process to plan, write, and revise your communications. Individual exercises give hands-on practice in planning, composing and editing a text.
This workshop will equip participants with tools and techniques to write policies that are easily read and procedures that guide a performer in completing a given task. You will learn the characteristics of well-written policies and procedures and how to draft coherent policy statements and procedures following proven techniques.
This workshop provides tools and checklists that will help you to prepare for a succinct briefing that is to the point, on target and achieves your objective. You will learn about your audience, and about how their information needs are often quite different than what you may want to tell them. The structure of the briefings will be centered around three addressing three questions: What? So what? and Now what?
This workshop provides both a broad and a detailed road map of government. You will learn about the mechanics of government and Parliament, policy-making and budgetary processes, legislation, and regulations. You can use this workshop as a starting point for our other workshops that provide intensive training in one particular skill set.
It is never to early to plan your life, because a well-planned life will be the basis of a happy retirement. The focus of retirement planning has shifted from financial aspects to personal issues. The workshop will address the emotional, physical and psychological realities and integrating them into a balanced plan is the key to a successful and meaningful retirement. This course will prepare you for a successful retirement by helping you to prepare a life plan that will guide your transition into retirement.
This workshop is designed for those who want to boost their leadership and management skills to the next level. You will learn how, as a current or future manager, you will need to rely less on your technical skills and much more on your conceptual and communications skills, such as planning, organizing, explaining, and inspiring.
This workshop will improve your ability to manage your emotions and be perceptive of others', by addressing both intrapersonal and interpersonal skills. You will learn how to deal with change and build relationships to help you grow as both a team player and as a leader. This two-day workshop will provide you with practical skills on how to express yourself with clarity, conviction, and confidence.
Designed with both policy analysts and subject-matter experts in mind, this workshop will provide you with some effective tools that will help them to formulate good public policy. You will learn how to identify a clear problem and set realizable objectives; how to analyze problems and their solutions and how to assess and identify the best options.
You will learn how to apply a case management strategy that permits government to maximize the value of their interventions and minimize the use of scarce resources. Opportunities are provided for you to practice different stakeholder intervention techniques and to formulate a liaison plan.
The goal of this workshop is to decrease stress levels and the risk of burnout. Your work life can be a stressful place. Sometimes that can be because of uncertainty brought on by change, competing demands on your time, or conflict in the workplace. In this workshop you will learn about how to better cope with change and how conflicts can arise and what you can do to address them. You will learn how to better organize your time and priorize your tasks at work and home.
Projects, tasks, do-its, to-dos, ministerial dockets, QPs: this is the day-to-day world that you live in. This course will provide you with a suite of basic tools to help you manage your work, your time, and thereby reduce your level of stress. You will learn how to scope a project, leading to a more robust project plan; how to manage your time more effectively, and how to balance multiple and competing demands on your time.
Great presenters need to show that they have something important to say by applying good communications skills and showing confidence. You will learn how to communicate the importance of your message by keeping to a few key points, and then using a dynamic presentation with appropriate body language, eye contact, and dress, to make your ideas stick with your audience.
You need to communicate assertively and confidently to be successful in the workplace. This two day workshop will improve your ability to communicate with others at all levels of the organization. You will learn how to express your ideas, opinions, and feelings with conviction.
This workshop provides an introduction to policy and regulatory development for both subject-matter experts and policy analysts. You will learn how policies and regulations are developed within government, the difference between big- and small-P policy and policy instruments and a basic analytical framework within which policy can be formulated. You will learn everything that you need to know about the Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulations (CDSR).
Public servants are trusted with Canadians’ hard earned tax dollars to run their programmes. That means that there is a higher level of expectations and scrutiny placed on financial stewardship in government compared to the private sector. This workshop provides an ethical, legal, and policy-based perspective on the management of money within a government programme. Your will learn about the laws and policies that govern expenditures and some of the issues that you will be faced with as you or your colleagues deal with committing government funds.
You have completed your policy analysis, a project plan, a draft contribution agreement or maybe you just need to get agreement on your vacation plan. Now you need to communicate this: maybe you actually need to sell it, a term that public servants hate to use. You will learn how to adjust your message according to your audience, the rudiments of an effective presentation, how to be assertive, and how to take feedback.
You will learn some of the strategies for preparing an effective Memorandum to Cabinet (MC) and for moving it through the system without unnecessary delay.
While MCs are used to receive program or policy approval from Cabinet, Treasury Board Submissions (TB Subs) are used to provide new spending authorities. You will learn about the planning environment in which TB Subs are considered and then strategies for preparing an effective TB Sub and for moving it through the system without unnecessary delay.
This workshop first provides a road map to help participants understand the sequencing of various parts of the legislative process, and to build a planning framework. You will learn how to analyze policy options, manage a project, and write an MC and drafting instructions.
This workshop builds on the analytical framework established within the Policy ToolBox workshop, first by reviewing the first three analytical steps through a regulatory lens, and then by addressing several other key areas of concern for regulatory programs. You will learn about compliance strategies, drafting instructions, and special tools that help you to make appropriate choices of instruments consistent with the CDSR.
