101 Core Workshops for Public Servants
Afterward, you can elect to take more in-depth workshops that expand upon the topics featured in any one-day workshop.
- Maximum value within one day
- Focus around ten key points
- Skills-oriented, not theoretical
- Bullet-proofing - Avoiding common traps
- Providing tools for the real-world of a government department
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.
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.
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.
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.
