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Senior Managers Roadmap  

Executives at the EX-1, EX-2 and EX-3 levels or equivalent

As your partner in learning, the Canada School of Public Service provides learning products and training opportunities to advance Public Service Renewal and to enhance your job performance now and in the future.

The Government of Canada's Policy on Learning, Training and Development (external link) states that you are responsible for acquiring and maintaining the knowledge, skills and competencies related to your position and for developing and pursuing a personal learning plan.

If you are a senior manager, this Learning Roadmap is for you. It will guide the creation of your personal learning plan and help you achieve your learning goals. Learning Roadmaps outline required training, recommended learning and additional learning opportunities available from the Canada School of Public Service. They get you started on the right path and point you in the right direction throughout your career in the public service.

• Your Foundations: Required Learning
• Striving for Excellence: Recommended Learning
• Beyond the Basics: Additional Learning Opportunities
• Selected Courses for your Community

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Your Foundations: Required Training

The School provides two types of required training for newly appointed senior managers: Orientation to the Public Service and Authority Delegation Training.

These foundational learning programs will help you understand your roles, responsibilities and delegated authorities and will help you contribute to the renewal of the public service. They are available to employees for whom the Treasury Board is the employer (please see the Directive on the Administration of Required Training (external link) for further information on eligibility).

Orientation to the Public Service

If you are an employee newly appointed to the public service, you will receive basic orientation training, where you will spend two days participating in a program designed to introduce you to the function, culture, values and ethics of the Public Service of Canada.

As a senior manager, you are an important catalyst in ensuring that all public servants understand the unique values and culture of the public service. To this end, the program is a great way of welcoming new employees into the public service and to help them gain a common understanding of their role.

• Orientation to the Public Service (E131)  

To ensure that you are registered within two months of appointment, contact your Departmental Required Training Coordinator.

Authority Delegation Training

New to your level?
If you are appointed for the first time to the following executive levels, the respective classroom course must successfully be completed before you can assume new delegated signing authorities:

• EX-1 level
  Essentials of Managing in the Public Service for New Executives (G126)  
• EX-2 or EX-3 level
  Essentials of Executive Management (G127)  

To ensure that you are registered within two months of appointment, contact your Departmental Required Training Coordinator.

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Striving for Excellence: Recommended Learning

The School is dedicated to ensuring that current and future leaders in the public service have the competencies to lead change in their organizations and deliver results for Canadians. Once required training is completed, strongly recommended learning options include:

Executives at the EX-1 level

• Engaging Citizens, Partners and Stakeholders (Z119)   
• Leadership: Reflection and Action (G305)   
• Leading in Times of Crisis (Z118)  

Executives at the EX-2 or EX-3 level

• Engaging Citizens, Partners and Stakeholders (Z119)   
• Leadership: Reflection and Action (G305)   
• Leading in Times of Crisis (Z118)  
• Leading Transitions (S208)   

Official Languages

Access to language training is getting easier! On-site language trainers and online language tools offer the flexibility you need. Many e-learning language tools are now available via MyAccount, the doorway to the School’s new learning management system, to help you build and maintain your second language capacity at your own pace. Turn your linguistic proficiency into a career opportunity!

Take advantage of these tools and login to your MyAccount today!

• MyAccount

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Beyond the Basics: Additional Learning Opportunities

The School offers additional learning opportunities to round out your knowledge as a senior manager. These relevant, accessible learning products allow you to enhance your skills in a variety of areas, improve core competencies and broaden your abilities throughout your career in the public service. Challenge yourself! Take a course in your second official language and improve your language skills.

Research Publications

The School produces research publications on leading-edge topics related to public management. The publications aim to develop the strengths of public service employees by exposing them to smart practices, innovative behaviors, and the valuable insight of distinguished speakers.

• Research Publications

Conferences and Events

The School takes you beyond the classroom with conferences, dialogue sessions and customized events to help you better understand the current issues facing the Government of Canada and its employees.

• Conferences and Events

E-Learning

With many offerings accessible online, the School's online products offer a great way to keep up on your learning at a flexible pace that is convenient to your schedule. Challenge yourself! One hour a month is all it takes to incorporate e-learning into your learning plan. Visit MyAccount to get started today!

• MyAccount

Leadership Development Programs

Living Leadership: The Executive Excellence Program (G108)
This applied leadership development program is designed for public service executives at the EX-1 to EX-3 (or equivalent). Public Service issues are addressed in real time in a synergistic learning environment with the expectation that participants will deliver real results. Participants learn about the practical application of leadership while developing and applying leadership skills that address the challenges facing their own organization and the public service at large.

• Living Leadership: The Executive Excellence Program (G108)

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Selected Courses for your Community

Key Leadership Competencies

The following Key Leadership Competencies reflect the skills, abilities, and characteristics that you need to meet the challenges of today and to renew the Public Service of tomorrow. The School's learning products have been mapped against these leadership competencies to help you select the products that meet your learning needs. Refer to this guide throughout your Learning Roadmap.

1. Value and Ethics - Serving through integrity and respect
2. Strategic Thinking - Innovating through analysis and ideas
3. Engagement - Mobilizing people, organizations, partners
4. Management Excellence:
   • 4a Action Management - Design and Execution
   • 4b People Management - Individual and Workplace
   • 4c Financial Management - Budget and Assets

To identify the Key Leadership Competencies associated with the courses in this roadmap, please consult the School catalogue.

Classroom Courses

• Canada in the World: An Introduction (G205)   
• Coaching for Effective Leadership (D101)  
• Courage to Lead in the Public Service (L109)  
• How Ottawa Works (G203)     
• Informal Discussion in the Appointment Process (P107)    
• Leadership Through Values and Ethics (D102)   
• Leading Diversity for Managers: Vision and Action (G114)   
• Leading Policy Development (G106)  
• Leading Strategically: Shaping the Future of a Modernized Public Service (P113)  
• Negotiating Skills (T006)     
• Preparing a Business Case (C220)    

Online Courses

• Active Leadership in Values and Ethics (C100E)     
• Diversity Leadership in Action (C101E)     
• Essentials of Financial Management (C339E)      
• Human Resources Management: Success Through People (C340E)      
• Managing a Meeting (C332E)   

For more information contact us or consult our catalogue.