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Management and Professional Development

The School brings a unified approach to serving the common learning and development needs of public service employees across Canada. We offer a variety of learning products that will help you to enhance your skills, improve core competencies and broaden your abilities.

The School offers professional development courses covering general public administration skills (e.g. core functions of government) as well as specific techniques and practices (e.g. project management). This training focuses on learning needs unique to the public sector.

School Catalogue

The School's course catalogue outlines management and professional development activities as part of Module C (Management and Professional Development). It contains a listing and descriptions of School courses that are intended for a general audience, for public service employees to expand their skills and acquire new knowledge for professional development, and where managers can find approaches for supporting employee development and talent management.

• Module A - Index
• Module B - Orientation and Certification
• Module C - Management and Professional Development
• Module D - Leadership Development
• Module E - Official Language Acquisition and Maintenance

The courses described here will help you to acquire the knowledge and skills you need to do your current job well, take the challenges, lead change, and deliver results for Canadians.

Functional Communities

This module also covers required and optional learning from our extensive curricula for the following functional communities:

• Finance
• Procurement, Materiel Management and Real Property
• Human Resources
• Classification
• New Specialists
• Remuneration
• Staffing
• Information technology
• Internal Audit
• Information Management
• Communication
• Policy
• Evaluation
• Science and Technology
• Service Delivery
• Security
• Corporate Planning
• Regulation

For managers, senior managers and senior leaders, we can help you to identify the resources you need to manage and retain your team's talents by promoting skills development opportunities.