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Certified Public Manager program a win-win
proposition for employers and employees

Supervisors and managers in public agencies are eligible to apply for entry into Idaho’s Certified Public Manager program. It consists of five levels of training, totaling 300 hours, and takes three years to complete.

Participation increases advancement opportunities by giving a valuable skill base that can be transferred to any public agency. It provides current, state-of-the-art practices on a wide range of management topics in a structured program that leads to a formal, widely accepted certificate. And it rewards high achievers while increasing knowledge, skills and abilities.

Public agencies also benefit by supporting employee involvement in the program. They can improve the quality of their services by enhancing the management skills of their key personnel, enhancing employee retention and promoting job-related creativity and innovation.

Goals of Idaho’s CPM program are:

  • To strengthen organizational performance by improving the effectiveness of Idaho's public managers;
  • To recognize and promote public management as a profession;
  • To provide a course of study by which public management principles and skills can be acquired and applied;
  • To provide access to such training and education to Idaho's public managers;
  • To establish an objective assessment of a public manager's professional knowledge and performance; and
  • To establish a standard by which public managers can be recognized.

Program levels:

  1. The Manager as Facilitator: Learn to apply skills and knowledge to effectively influence organizational performance. (12.5 days, 78.5 hours of instruction)
  2. Organizational Systems: Integrate and coordinate organizational systems to achieve organizational goals. (9.5 days/70 hours)
  3. The Learning Organization: Focuses more advanced skills on organizational outcomes. (7 days/45.5 hours)
  4. Strategic Leadership: Develop capacities and competencies for innovative state leadership. (8 days/56 hours)
  5. Project and Testing: Job-related project comprehensive test. (50 hours)

For more information about the CPM program visit:

http://www.pte.state.id.us/StateTraining/Overview.htm

Published 1-11-8