Sessions For Your Certificate in Public Management
Each Certificate in Public Management module covers approximately two and a half days of instruction. To receive credit towards the certificate, participants must attend all scheduled class days, or make arrangements with the instructor, and complete all required work.
Special sessions are available upon request. Please contact us to schedule a CPM special session for your group or let us know if you have interest in attending a course at our Portland campus in Downtown Portland: cpm@willamette.edu
September 2024 (Friday)
| 3 days | Data Analysis & Presentation (Online) Instructor: Josh Lehner Module Description: Students learn how to approach & analyze different types of data using various techniques & building invaluable workplace skills. Students also learn how to convey their findings in the right graph, table or visual in a compelling manner.
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September 2024 (Wednesday)
| 1 day | Business Communication: Speaking (In-Person), Salem Instructor: Elizabeth Tierney Module Description: Everyone needs to polish their public speaking skills and last year we piloted a one-day, small-class approach that got great reviews from the participants. It offers the same opportunities to practice and receive feedback as our previous 2.5-day class but in a condensed, and in-person format. The class focuses on skills to help you create and deliver clear messages to unique audiences.
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September & October 2024 (Wednesday)
| 3 days | Business Communication: Writing (Online) Instructor: Elizabeth Tierney Module Description: Communication is the lifeblood of organizations. This practical workshop is designed to sharpen your writing skills through discussion and practice. The content ranges from organizing your thoughts and understanding your audience to punctuation, grammar, and style.
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October 2024 (Friday)
| 3 days | Follow the Money: Budget and Finance in the Public Sector (Online) Instructor: Donna Valenzuela Module Description: Examines important principles in public budgeting and related financial management with an eye toward improved budget development and execution. Concepts include: sources and uses of public funds, the logic and policy, performance management and accountability, budget management and selected budgetary reform techniques.
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November 2024 (Friday)
| 3 days | Policy & Politics (Online) Instructor: Brad Avakian Module Description: Understanding how to navigate political factors is essential to effective public management. This course will take a candid look at those factors, explore ways of working with them and provide the skills necessary to be a successful public servant within political and policy making environments.
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November 2024 (Wednesday)
| 1 day | Business Communication: Speaking (In-Person), Salem Instructor: Elizabeth Tierney Module Description: Everyone needs to polish their public speaking skills and last year we piloted a one-day, small-class approach that got great reviews from the participants. It offers the same opportunities to practice and receive feedback as our previous 2.5-day class but in a condensed, and in-person format. The class focuses on skills to help you create and deliver clear messages to unique audiences.
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January 2025 (Friday)
| 4 days | Negotiating for Success: Creating a 'Win-Win' Every Day (Online) Instructor: Warren Binford
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January 2025 (Wednesday)
| 3 days | Business Communication: Writing (Online) Instructors: Elizabeth Tierney Module Description: Communication is the lifeblood of organizations. This practical workshop is designed to sharpen your writing skills through discussion and practice. The content ranges from organizing your thoughts and understanding your audience to punctuation, grammar, and style.
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February 2025 (Friday)
| 4 days | Change and Innovation (Online) Instructors: TBD Module Description: Module Description: The world and our work is changing rapidly. This module helps you create a "culture of innovation" so our agencies can become “serial innovators" to constantly provide improved services to clients and the state. Once you have targeted a desired innovation, we present a systematic methodology for successful implementation of the change.
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February 2025 (Wednesday)
| 4 days | Accounting: What’s that got to do with management? (Online) Instructor: Pamela Stroebel Powers Module Description: Recent Secretary of State audits have found knowledge and communication gaps between management and accounting operations. They also found that people new to the accounting field have difficulty explaining how accounting fits into the overall operations. As a manager, it is important to increase your accounting literacy and people who work in the accounting field need to gain a bigger picture perspective of the impact of accounting practices. Because of these special needs, we have designed a new module in consultation with agency finance officer, the Secretary of State’s Audit Division and the State Treasurer’s office. This module will review financial statements used by state agencies and demonstrate how reviewing financial information can improve decision making and provide awareness to opportunities for process improvement. Most managers have an awareness of budget processes, so the module will explore the differences between the budget and accounting processes. Participants will learn the shared financial vocabulary between accountants, management and auditors and will discuss ways to partner with auditors for effective outcomes as well as prepare for an audit. The module will also provide tools and techniques for analyzing, documenting, mitigating and monitoring risks. Guest speakers will cover special topics including specialized accounting practices in government, Treasury rules and practices, and external audits.
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March 2025 (Friday)
| 4 days | Strategic Management (Online) Instructor: TBD Module Description: This is a module on how to build a strategic plan to lead our organizations to “excellence.” This module focuses on:
The goal of this module This class is designed to be tactical and pragmatic.
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March 2025 (Wednesday)
| 1 day | Business Communication: Speaking (In-Person), Salem Instructor: Elizabeth Tierney Module Description: Everyone needs to polish their public speaking skills and last year we piloted a one-day, small-class approach that got great reviews from the participants. It offers the same opportunities to practice and receive feedback as our previous 2.5-day class but in a condensed, and in-person format. The class focuses on skills to help you create and deliver clear messages to unique audiences.
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April 2025 (Friday)
| 4 days | Dynamics of Organizations (Online) Instructor: TBD Module Description: This module focuses on understanding how one influences human behavior in the workplace. A major emphasis in the module will be on the practice of reframing- the ability to rethink and conceptualize a situation so as to widen one's perspective and available responses, primarily based upon the work of Lee Bolman and Terrance Deal. Reframing is an important skill for managing people and projects in fast changing, technologically intensive organizations. We will use four theory-based frames of reference as the foundation for our reframing work together. Using the structural frame, we will examine the effects of work (re) design and (re) structuring on the roles/responsibilities, people and performance of an organization. Using the human resource frame, we will consider interpersonal and group dynamics, communication, and issues of fit between people and organizations. Using the political frame, we will consider issues and sources of power, building coalitions and managing differences. Using the symbolic frame, we will explore how people make sense and meaning at work, as well as how all of these dynamics effect organizational culture and how one might influence that culture.
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April 2025 (Wednesday)
| 1 day | Business Communication: Speaking (In-Person), Salem Instructor: Elizabeth Tierney Module Description: Everyone needs to polish their public speaking skills and last year we piloted a one-day, small-class approach that got great reviews from the participants. It offers the same opportunities to practice and receive feedback as our previous 2.5-day class but in a condensed, and in-person format. The class focuses on skills to help you create and deliver clear messages to unique audiences.
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May 2025 (Friday)
| 4 days | Conversations in Strategic IT (Online) Instructor: Syed Hussain Module Description: This is a course on how to lead an IT transformation and strategically manage IT to excellence. The commoditization of IT was fast tracked with the maturity of the cloud and other enabling technologies. Renowned business expert Peter Drucker said, “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence — it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” In this class we will have in-depth themed conversations on how to modernize and transform IT. We will leverage class discussions, Case Studies and practical tools and tips. The goals of this class:
Note: Due to similarity in content, this course will not count towards the CPM certificate if you have already received credit for EDCCP-009 "Enterprise Architecture" |
May 2025 (Wednesday)
| 4 days | Process Improvement Principles for Managers (Online) Instructor: Pamela Stroebel Powers Module Description: Process mapping can be an integral step in understanding and improving key business processes that help us achieve and support our strategic and operational objectives. This course will introduce process mapping techniques and tools, including LEAN principles, that can be used to identify and implement process improvement opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness for ALL types of processes - operational, financial, strategic and more!
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June 2025 (Friday)
| 4 days | Race, Embodiment, & Well-Being in Organizational Life (Online) Instructors: Nicholas Grier and Chaka Holley Module Description:
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