Ever feel like you're being pulled in a thousand different directions? Do you have to remember policy and procedure changes that change weekly (even sometimes DAILY)?
Management survival means being able to handle constant and sometimes rapid changes. It means being able to survive budgets; personnel problems; learning how to maintain customer service while not always being able to satisfy the customer.
Government managers have to deal with very specific laws, rules and regulation issues that pertain to their local, state or federal government. It can be very confusing!
This page helps you with some of these problems. It contains experiences, stories, successes and mistakes that will hopefully enable you to "survive" your management career.
There is a movement to shift the culture of public agency managers from that of a hierarchical, top-down, bureaucratic style to one of an emerging organization that promotes empowerment, team development and the commitment management paradigm. This project (web site) is an extension of that movement.
The caliber of managers participating in the program are some of the best and brightest minds working in the public sector. This web site is a way to capture their knowledge and expertise for use by all managers and is a resource for a new way of thinking, a new way to manage.
Other Certified Public Managers (or any manager for that matter) can contribute their own survival skills, experiences and solutions to the site and accelerate this culture shift for the betterment of all public agencies.
There are a lot of talented people out there that have so much to offer. Click on the link for Cohort 4 Bios to see some of these talented people currently participating in the Ohio Certified Public Manager Program.
