SENIOR MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT "SMD

Course details

Objectives

• Support senior center personnel by providing a means to increase management skills
• Gain an insight into various functions of management from a senior manager’s Perspective.
• Familiarize the civil servant with the contents of the course exempted during the missions of the ENA.
• Acquire the knowledge necessary to the best comprehension of the interventions of the ENA.
• Follow courses of law, economy and political sciences in French language.
• Improve argumentative, discursive and cultural competences.
• Attend conferences and to take part in debates.
• Read and analyze the articles of the professional press.
• Write reports.
• Consult reference books (information retrieval)
• Give presentations.

Curriculum

Part (1)

• Public administration:
• Administrative law.
• European Union:
• Union for the Mediterranean:
• Knowledge of France:
• The economic crisis:
• Economic concepts:
• Socio-political concepts:
• International organizations and NGOs:

Part (2)

• Change management in public administration.
• The performance approach.
• Public Service and Human Resources Management.
• Managing training: training schemes, training needs analysis, implementation of
• training plan, training techniques.
• Quality management.
• The means of fighting corruption in public administration.
• Skills management.
• Techniques of negotiation and communication.