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Government Performance Manager Certification: An Investment in Your Career and Your Future
Achieving career advancement is growing more competitive each day. Education and professional certification are becoming necessary for promotion, and are requirements for coveted positions. To ensure professional success, you must continuously expand your skills and education. The bar has been raised in government agencies and organizations, and managers want to hire, promote and work with the most skilled and knowledgeable individuals possible.

In The Performance Institute’s Certified Government Performance Manager (CGPM) program, you will acquire the skills and tools needed to make you the lead performance management resource for your organization. As a candidate for our advanced certificate, you will complete a capstone project — a real-world project from your agency that you can use to apply concepts, knowledge, and skills from your courses, and receive expert feedback from a staff member at The Performance Institute.

Upon completion of your certification, you will gain both a professional distinction and academic credit. The Performance Institute has been reviewed and approved as a provider of training by the Project Management Institute (PMI) ® and accredited through the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA).

How the Program Works

The Certified Government Performance Manager program design is simple — take the core courses, three electives, and complete a Capstone project. Although the structure is simple, no two people will have the same experience, and each person will receive the individual attention necessary for success.

The Core Courses (Government Performance Core Week)

• Strategic Planning: Planning from the Top Down and Executing from the Bottom Up (2 days) – Planning is the most important stage of any program or project. How can you evaluate success or failure without defined outcomes? Learn to think strategically from the beginning in this course using The Performance Institute’s preferred planning methodology, the Logic Model.
• Developing and Using Performance Measures: The Logic Model Approach, Measures, Targets, Cascading, and Culture (2 days) – Once your plan is in place, you must develop the measures to determine success. Measures can do more than tell you what happened — effective measures can help you deliver results as your program or project progresses. Learn to create measures that are linked to your strategy and give you useful, actionable data.

Elective Courses

The Institute offers a variety of elective course year-round to fulfill your course requirements. From courses on Transforming Data into Information and Human Capital Training & Development to Performance-Based Budgeting and Program Management training, we offer a comprehensive list of elective courses that will help develop and refine the specific skills you need as a government manager. Visit our training and events page to see a complete listing of upcoming events.

The Capstone Project
Once your training is complete, the final stage of your certification is the Capstone project. Most certification candidates use a real project from their agency, using the time and expert advice to meet real deadlines. Sample projects have included:

• Revising the Strategic Planning Project for the National Credit Union Administration
• Development of New Performance Measures for the Chattanooga Housing Authority
• From The Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, the Center for Planning and Analysis (CPA) Evaluation for the Office of Administration’s (ADM), Security and Facilities Program

To get started today, please contact us here or call Customer Account Specialist at 877-992-9521.

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