Certified Public Manager Program® of Illinois
Certified Public Manager Program of Illinois Model Competency-Based Learning
Increasingly, public manager professionals operate in an ever changing multidisciplinary work environment, where they are required to work across a variety of tasks and situations, and expected to perform numerous roles. In this knowledge and skill intensive environment human capital is recognized in the form of competencies
To meet these high performance demands of today’s public sector and to keep up with the evolving needs and requirements of the public sector of the future, The Certified Public Manager Program of Illinois (CPMPI) uses a Competency-Based Portfolio Learning approach to teaching and learning. This approach to professional development is designed to provide the public manager professional with the essential and core knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to a successful public manager in the 21st century.
What is Competency-Based Learning (CBL)?
Competency-Based Learning or CBL is a learner-centered approach to professional development training focusing on the standards of performance crucial to being an effective manager in the public sector workplace. CPMI Competency-Based Learning is guided by four basic principles:
- Validation: Central to CBL is the inclusion of existing knowledge and skill sets emerging and seasoned public managers bring to the learning process and environment.
- Preparation: CBL focuses on those knowledge, skills and attitudes core to the public manager professional of the 21st century.
- Reflection: CBL facilitates the active process of witnessing one’s own learning process in order to learn from and through the experience.
- Integration: CBL captures and connects learning to authentic work experiences, creating usable and relevant knowledge that is a resource for growth and development both in the classroom and throughout professional life.