Course Description
Drawing upon theories and research findings in public administration and management as well as the practical experience, we examine the strategic administrative approaches, issues and debates arising in municipalities in a changing environment. Topics include managing publicly, administrative strategy, working with communities, leadership, outsourcing, partnerships and strategic planning and performance measurement in local municipalities.
Course Objectives
- Increasing insight into the basic conditions for good planning in municipalities
- Understanding the role of municipalities in creating conditions and maintaining oversight
- Being familiar with the impact of the strategic plans
- Being able to link results based management, public financial management and local development plans in the strategic plan
- Learning how to develop and implement a strategic plan
Who Should Attend?
- Mayors
- Councillors
- Municipal staff
- Professionals working in the field of local governance
- Public service provision officers
Course Details/Schedule
- Introduction to strategic planning
- Complexity, collaboration, and dynamism in strategic planning
- Art of the possible
- Community support
- From process to product
- Realistic expectations
- Strategic decision making
- Strategic thinking
- Decision-making styles
- Ethics
- Human resource management
- Locating responsibility
- Finding the stakeholders
- Engaging the community
- Preparing to plan
- Focusing on the future, working in the present
- Values, vision, and mission
- Core values
- Vision statements
- Mission statements
- External environment
- Internal environment
- Management environment
- Environmental scanning matrix
- Goals, objectives, and tactics
- Hierarchy and time frames
- Implementation plan
- Performance measurement
- Strategic planning and business plan
- Selling the plan
- Controls, feedback, and replanning
- Feedback loops
- Contingency planning
- Planning to replan
