Course description
Professional local government managers are highly distinguished in ethical conduct and high performance. In recent years, rapid and complex developments in local government management have forced professionals to be competent leaders. Local government management is both a management and leadership position; therefore, you need to undertake this training course to fully understand when to be a leader and when to be a manager.
Participants should expect to understand the core duties of managers in local governments, how they make themselves useful for the community and their local government, their roles in helping elected officials perform their duties, how they leverage scarce resources, their influence in designing the future of the community, and how they promote quality delivery of services.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend?
The Certificate in Local Government Management Training Course by Rcademy is ideal for:
- Local government leaders
- Managers involved in government affairs
- Local government leadership
- Auditors
- Professionals who are consultants to local government
- Managers of all levels in local government
- Officers of the elected positions
Outcome / Qualification etc.
The main objectives of The Certificate in Local Government Management Training Course by Rcademy are to enable participants to be able to:
- Articulate a vision that has better value, direction, and outlook for local governments
- Empowered by having authority to make improved decisions and encouraging better decision-making at the lowest possible level
- Cooperating and developing with others a mission that defines their local government
- Encourage broader participation in all decision-making and planning process
- Develop a commitment to their job, purpose, and goals in whatever they undertake
- Understand the proper execution of government policies
- Adequately supervise and direct activities in the local government
- Develop budgets in systematic and efficient ways
- Accurately keep the necessary people informed by properly reporting
- Resolve problems under unpleasant and straining conditions
- Respond positively to suggestions and guidance
Training Course Content
Module 1: Becoming a Professional Local Government Manager
- Introduction to professional management
- How to Become an ethical leader
- Developing new era leadership styles
- Becoming an effective professional
- The Future of local government management
Module 2: Enhancing Effectiveness in Government Bodies
- Understanding and resolving conflict
- Building confidence
- Government bodies roles
- Strengthening policy-making capabilities
- Understanding how to use incentives
- Professional manager’s responsibilities
- Maintain a good work environment
- Case study
Module 3: Programs, Policy Implementation, Evaluation, and Productivity
- Performance appraisal
- Monitoring performance
- Setting agendas
- Implementation of community programs
- Evaluation of policies, programs, and plans
- Policy formulation
Module 4: Effectiveness in Community Leadership
- Identifying the actors in community policies
- Sizing up one’s community-leadership style
- Creating a better community by providing improved leadership in society and using local government managers
- Behavioral Components of effective community leadership
- Understanding community dynamics
- Rapid political shifts in society in matters of community leadership
- Local government management and their role in creating better leadership
Module 5: Essential Management Practices
- Managing financial resources
- Managing the human resources department
- Managing the information technology resources department
- Creating an effective budget
- Case study
Module 6: Creating a Balanced Manager’s Life
- Creating a Plan for your career
- Understanding the obstacles
- Managing time properly
- Creating your motivation
- Communicating effectively
- Accommodating suggestions and challenges
Module 7: Promoting the Local Community’s Future
- How managers should shape the Future of their society
- Economic development
- The new era responsibilities and duties of the manager
- Community-building citizens
- Shifting of leadership mantle in the community and how to handle it
- The intersection of growth management, economic development, and smart growth
- Strategic reasoning and executive planning to show better leadership
Module 8: Relating to other Organisations
- The vertical relations with others
- How to effectively manage external relations
- The transformation of local government roles and duties
- Managing horizontal relations
- How to handle conflicts in the local government
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