Best executive courses in Government

eCornell

Public Sector Leadership

There are a multitude of strategies, books, and resources that are meant to help you improve your leadership skills. But if you work in the public sector, do these strategies apply to you? What is different about leading in a public organization? In this certificate program, Seth Harris, former...

Schulich Executive Learning Centre

Successfully Managing in a Unionized Work Environment

Changes to collective agreements, labour laws, human rights codes, grievance and disciplinary procedures make it very challenging to maintain a cohesive, trusting and motivated workforce. This popular program takes the guesswork out of managing unionized employee groups. The skills-laden course...

NUS Institute of Systems Science

NICF- Digital & Social Engagement Strategy

Businesses and individuals alike cannot be oblivious to the fact that digital technology has impacted their markets in the past decade, in almost every way imaginable. The way we buy and use products and services, the methods in which we create and consume content, and even the way we stay...

University of Salford, Manchester

Certified Information Security Manager Course (CISM)

This course is designed for managers and senior professionals in information security who intend to take the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) examination. Recognised internationally, CISM certification is issued by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). The...

Harvard Kennedy School

Senior Executive Fellows

Oxford Management Centre

Transformative Scenario Planning

This highly-interactive seminar will provide delegates with concepts and tools needed for making decisions in a VUCA world: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. The VUCA acronym, developed in the late 1980’s, was used by the US Army War College and then adopted by business after the...

Blavatnik School of Government

Executive Public Leaders Programme

The Executive Public Leaders Programme is open exclusively to leaders in the public sector, and we welcome all such leaders, including career civil servants, political appointees, and elected officials. The programme is designed for those at the top of their department, ministry, agency,...

Crawford School of Public Policy

Implementation Science for Strategic Policy Development

Improve strategic policy design through a greater understanding of implementation science. Designing and implementing strategic policy is challenging. Government approaches often change direction, public policy development is highly contestable, policy problems are complex and multi-faceted,...

Crawford School of Public Policy

Budgeting for Outcomes: Purposes, Programs and Performance

Contemporary public sector budgeting is about explaining the performance story behind the financial numbers, and working with the inevitable contestability around what the numbers mean. It is about how performance information can be used to better frame dialogue around funding priorities, and to...

Crawford School of Public Policy

Strategic Policy Fundamentals Series

Designing and implementing strategic policy is challenging. Government approaches often change direction, public policy development is highly contestable, policy problems are complex and multi-faceted, requiring linkages across numerous portfolios or layers of governance, and there is a growing...