“Meeting all your daily challenges with the best strategies to further your career”

1. COURSE OVERVIEW

Are you ready to develop your career by finding new insights, perspectives and ways of working? The AICD Advanced Management and Policy Development, Implementation and Analysis in the Public Sector will help take your leadership and policy development, implement and analysis abilities to the next level. Develop yourself, and develop your organisation. The  course examines the leadership and policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation of governmental efforts at federal, state, and local levels.

Acquire the skills and knowledge to adapt, thrive and succeed

Modern time’s demands true leaders, not just managers that have leadership and policy development, implement and analysis competences. The AICD Advanced Management and Policy Development, Implementation and Analysis in the Public Sector is an intensive 10-day modular leadership and policy development, implement and analysis programme taught in English that will sharpen your critical thinking skills and enable you to enhance your impact as a leader. Based on real issues, economic realities and global shifts and megatrends,

The short course in Advanced Management and Policy Development, Implementation and Analysis in the Public Sector provides you with the necessary knowledge to diagnose and identify current public policy issues,

possible problems that may arise in policy formulation and implementation, as well as specific needs with regard to current situations in all three spheres of government. During the course, you will not only gain the skills to solve basic operational problems related to service delivery and the delegation of tasks, but you will also gain insights to best-practice techniques and methods that can be used to formulate effective policies for the public sector

In this course participants will understand why policy is important, its role in achieving strategic objectives, and the factors which drive their development and their links to accountability frameworks. The course provides participants with background knowledge to assist and support policy implementation and of organisational policy and culture. Participants will gain an understanding of the principles, processes and strategies of developing public policy and the ability to apply these skills in their work.

Besides, the AICD Advanced Management and Policy Development, Implementation and Analysis in the Public Sector will challenge the way you view yourself and the way your organisation operates. The programme requires you to take a step back from day-to-day tasks so that it can equip you with new skills and knowledge to adapt, thrive and succeed. With 10 days of classroom experience spread over several modules, and additional pre- and post-programme support and activities, this intensive journey will expose you to the best thinking in the field, and enable you to dramatically enhance your leadership skills and impact.

You’ll return to your workplace refreshed, re-energised, and ready to deal with any future challenges that come your way.

2.          LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By participating in this programme you will:

a)         Advanced Management

• develop greater self-awareness and confidence in your own leadership style – how it works and why it works
• enhance and update your knowledge of key and trending strategic, financial and leadership concepts
• master leading-edge models and practices that you can apply immediately

• acquire new knowledge and insights from a network of peers

• gain entry to the benefits and privileges of AICD’s alumni

b)         Policy Development, Implementation and Analysis

3. LEARNING OUTCOMES

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to

• develop greater self-awareness and confidence in your own leadership style – how it works and why itworks
• enhance and update your knowledge of key and trending strategic, financial and leadership concepts
• identify and consult with stakeholders to determine needs, expectations and demands
• suggest solutions to the problems to successful policy implementation
• facilitate the solving of problems to ensure optimal and accessible service delivery
• solve basic operational problems relating to service delivery in order to achieve operational objectives, and
• use a variety of different models when formulating polices for the Public Sector
• A well-rounded knowledge of all the facets which drive and inform policy
• Why policy is important to organisational culture
• Using departmental specific examples, participants will be able to design and write a policy document

4.          TARGET GROUP

• Economists
• heads of institutions, directors, managers and monitoring and evaluation officers
• Development Partners

• Policy researchers and Consultants
• Policy Developers, Implementers and Impact Evaluators
• Project Managers , Officers and Operations Managers
• Academics and Policy Advisors
• Public and Private Policy Consultants and Advisors
• National and International Programme and Project staff
• Governmental and Non -Governmental policy Administrators
• Community Leaders

5.          COURSE OUTLINE

6.1    Advanced Management

• Leadership

Learn how to bring out the best in yourself and others using a relationship-centric leadership approach. You will focus on the core skills you need to engage others, resolve apparently intractable dilemmas, create rapid change and unlock the collective intelligence within your organisation.

1. Leading self

1. Leading others

1. Leading organisation

1. Leading change

§   Finance

Know what your business is worth and why. Learn to truly understand not only the crucial financial information within your business but also the implications of the decisions you must make. You will upgrade your understanding of finance issues which will enable you to set the right objectives at strategic levels and to create smart incentives that will deliver desired results.

1. Financial reporting and analysis

1. Capital budgeting and corporate finance

1. Value based management and valuation

• Finance for Senior Managers

Learn the language of finance in business. After all, you need to understand finance for successful decision-making. This three-day programme provides senior managers with the necessary financial knowledge and skills you need to work effectively with your colleagues in finance and accounting.

·      Strategy

You learn specific tools to improve your ability to make clear choices and informed decisions. You will learn how to choose, prioritise and implement business strategies so they become action plans for teams and individuals. By

thinking more strategically you will better assess your organisation’s capabilities and develop its competitive advantages.

1. Strategic thinking

1. Strategic change

1. Leading strategically

1. Make Strategy Work

To build a future-proof organisation, you must have strategic knowledge to make the right decisions. Learn how to help lead your organisations with renewed strategic leadership skills, insights and tools for strategic decision- making in the high-impact.

Good strategy comes first

·      Decision Making

Learn all the decision-making skills that will help you focus on your markets, make strategic progress, and influence consumers. This programme focuses on managerial thinking and reasoning that uses recent developments in big data and artificial intelligence (AI)

6.2    Policy Development, Implementation and Analysis

• Understanding policy and who makes policies
• Stakeholder Identification in policy making
• Who are stakeholders?
• Disadvantaged Community Involvement

• Stakeholder categories
• Partnerships
• Stakeholder Participation
• Levels of Involvement
• Scope of the Collaboration
• Degree to Which Consensus Emerges
• Consensus Building
• The degree to which the dialogue among participants reflects openness
• Policy drafting strategies & procedures
• Problem identification, structuring & priorities
• Policy options generation
• Policy selection (cost-benefit, risk analysis, short, medium, long term)
• Needs research and analysis for a new and policy
• Consultation process for policy review and formulation
• Drafting interim policy statements , process ,procedures and best practices
• Draft policy reviews and processes criteria
• Internal and external policy approval committee structures, processes and procedures,
• Public participation and Implementation of draft policies
• The role of public opinion and referenda in policy making , implementation and review
• Policy implementation styles
• Participation styles, constraints, strategies
• Implementation constraints

• Developing policy assessment tools and techniques
• The role of the private and public sectors in policy development work
• Types of Policy evaluation and the role of Stakeholders
• Monitoring and Evaluation procedures
• The role of policy impact evaluation
• Why private and public policies succeed and fail in the modern world
• Policy change issues, constraints and strategies
• Communication with Stakeholders in Policy evaluation
• Action planning

FOR MORE DETAILS AND COURSE OUTLINE PLEASE CONTACT:

PIERRE DUPLIS BRENNER

The Admission Director

AFRICA INSTITUTE FOR CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT (AICD)

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