Curriculum Management Branch Cadre and Leadership Development (C&LD) EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (EDP)

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Curriculum Management Branch Cadre and
Leadership Development (CLD) EXECUTIVE
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (EDP)
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Overview

• The Executive Development Programme (EDP)
• Accreditation of the EDP
• Curriculum and material development
• Facilitator selection, approval and executive
  training
• Cadre and Leadership Development

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Curriculum Management Branch Cadre and
Leadership Development (CLD) EXECUTIVE
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (EDP)
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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)

• Aim of the Executive Development Programme (EDP)
• The Executive Development Programme is a
  professional development programme, aligned to
  the Senior Management Service (SMS) Competency
  Framework. It aims to equip senior managers with
  the knowledge and skills required to perform
  effectively in their day-to-day operations in a
  democratic, developmental state.
• Entry requirements
• Applicants must
• Be a senior manager in the South African public
  sector with a minimum of three years managerial
  experience
• Be in possession of at least a three year
  qualification to obtain entry into the 6 Core
  modules of the EDP
• Be in possession of a B-degree in order to pursue
  admission into the Masters degree in Public
  Administration (MPA)
• Have submitted an EDP Application document and
  certified copies of required documentation.

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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)

• Interviews with Ministers, Directors-General and
  public sector senior managers
• Desk-top research Best practice African and
  international honours and masters management and
  leadership development programmes
• South African public sector context Democratic,
  developmental state
• Senior Management Services (SMS) Competency
  Framework
• SMS Competency proficiency level toolkit
• Research identified 10 areas for public sector
  Senior Management Services professional
  development

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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)
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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)

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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)

• 4 Regions and Consortia of Higher Education
  Institutes
• Northern region North-West University Consortium
• University of Johannesburg University of the
  Witwatersrand
• Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng province
• Central region North-West University Consortium
• University of the Free State University of
  KwaZulu Natal Central University of Technology
  Durban University of Technology
• North West, Free State and KwaZulu Natal
• Southern region Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
  University Consortium
• University of Stellenbosch Cape Peninsula
  University of Technology
• Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape
• National region Vaal University of Technology
  Consortium
• University of the Witwatersrand University of
  Stellenbosch Central University of Technology
  Durban University of Technology Tshwane
  University of Technology
• All national departments

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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)

Summative assignments assessed and moderated
results available online
Formative assignments assessed results
available online
Discipline solutions to the learners selected
organisational strategic challenge is researched
Upload organisational strategic challenge onto
e-Platform

e-Platform Forums, academic journal articles,
video clips, e-library, results, URLs, strategic
challenge database, assignment archive
Research, interpretation, application
Orientation session Identification of a
strategic challenge
3. Formative assignment Upload onto e-Platform
4. Summative assignment Upload onto e-Platform
2. Contact session Group assignment (Research,
interpretation, application) 3 days
EDP methodology Research, interpretation and
application EDP approach Blended approach
Contact sessions and e-Platform
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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)

• Assignments and assessments
• Group assignment (presentation on the third day
  of each contact session)
• Formative assignment (submit online)
• Summative assignment (submit online)
• Assessments (online track changes)
• Moderation (quality assurance)
• Results are made available online (strictly
  confidential)
• Results are reported to departments via final EDP
  report

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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)
Northern Region
Central Region
I MP L EME N T A T I ON
Southern Region
National Region
Academic discipline specialists
Practitioner discipline specialists
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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)

• Learner support
• Project offices PALAMA and the three lead Higher
  Education Institutes
• Electronic Learning Administrators (ELAs)
• Module coordinators
• Module contact session facilitators
• e-Help desk
• Study leaders Research Methodology for SMS in
  the public sector

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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)

• The future of the EDP

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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)

• EDP is academically and professionally sound
• It enables SA public sector senior management
• EDP learners get to appreciate global and
  national force fields
• DPSA Core competencies are included
• Process competencies are embedded in the EDP
  modules
• EDP methodology supports both academic and
  professional skills development
• EDP support professional skills enhancement in
  the political and economical dimensions of a
  developmental state but competence initiatives in
  the social dimension could be enhanced

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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)

• A clear and thorough understanding of the
  Developmental state landscape, inclusive of the
  unpredictability and instabilities that the
  landscape offers could be incorporated into the
  programme
• Such knowledge would concretise an ability
  amongst senior managers to continuously seek
  innovative solutions within dynamic circumstances
  always with citizens best interest at heart

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The Executive Development Programme (EDP)

• To instil aspects such as
• societal challenges,
• characteristics and transformation,
• elements of sociology,
• implementation of a socio-political and
  socio-economic infrastructure,
• socio-cultural issues,
• the facilitation of public policy communities,
  enabling various forms of citizen participation
  and access to information and services, as well
  as
• the facilitation and management of social capital
  and equality may enhance the professional
  competence of public sector senior managers to
  achieve South Africas Millennium Development
  Goals.

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Curriculum Management Branch Cadre and
Leadership Development (CLD) EDP
ACCREDITATION
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Accreditation of the EDP

• The EDP is currently accredited through 4 South
  African Higher Education Institutions
• Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU)
• North-West University (NWU)
• Vaal University of Technology (VUT)
• Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)

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Accreditation of the EDP
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Curriculum Management Branch Cadre and
Leadership Development (CLD) EDP CURRICULUM
AND MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
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Curriculum and material development
2. Module report submitted to PALAMA developed /
upgraded / customised
1. Approval of Project team ToR, Contracts
3. Module report is approved and development
commences
Palama IIC Academic discipline specialists
Public sector Practitioner discipline specialists
4. Module is developed / upgraded / customised
and submitted to PALAMA for approval (Quality
assurance process)
7. Facilitator / LREQ are considered to support
next upgrade
6. Module is facilitated to EDP learners
5. Editing and desktop publishing (Quality
assurance process)
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Curriculum and material development

• The EDP offers
• 2 Full qualifications (Postgraduate Certificate
  in Executive Leadership and a Masters degree in
  Public Administration)
• 10 Credit bearing certificates
• The EDP is accredited through the Senates of each
  Higher Education lead institution
• As the programme expand, participating
  universities will accredit the EDP
• Not more than 50 of each modules content may
  change during customisation or upgrade
• The EDP course material is on National
  Qualification Framework (NQF) Levels 8 9
• Equivalent to Honours and Masters programmes
• Council on Higher Education (CHE)

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Curriculum Management Branch Cadre and
Leadership Development (CLD) EDP FACILITATOR
SELECTION, APPROVAL AND EXECUTIVE TRAINING
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Facilitator selection, approval and executive
training

• Facilitator selection
• PALAMA exercises internal quality measures when
  EDP facilitators are appointed
• PALAMA places high expectations on EDP
  facilitators as they engage in a number of
  activities such as online communication with EDP
  learners, facilitation, assessment of
  assignments, module coordination (in selected
  instances), study leaders amongst others
• The process entails
• - Individual facilitators are proposed by Higher
  Education lead institutions in all ten
  disciplines, in all four regions
• PALAMA approves proposed facilitators that
  adheres to a per-determined criteria
• Approved EDP facilitators information are
  released into a pool of facilitators from which
  lead Higher Education Institutions may select for
  the facilitation of EDP modules in a particular
  region

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Facilitator selection, approval and executive
training

• The pre-determined criteria entails
• Academic background
• The proposed facilitator should have a Masters or
  PhD as academic qualification to facilitate on
  the EDP
• Public sector experience and exposure
• The proposed facilitator should be able to
  display an in-depth public sector knowledge
• The proposed facilitator should have facilitated
  interventions in the particular discipline in the
  public sector and
• The proposed facilitator should be informed of
  all the latest public sector developments in
  their field/s of expertise

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Facilitator selection, approval and executive
training

• The pre-determined criteria entails
• Experience as executive facilitator
• The proposed facilitator should be able to
  provide evidence that s/he has facilitated
  interventions to senior management in the public
  sector
• Subject knowledge
• The proposed facilitator should display an
  in-depth subject knowledge through which s/he can
  facilitate a particular discipline an advice EDP
  learners in terms of strategic solutions, a
  variety of applicable models and frameworks as
  well as additional reading material amongst many
  other supportive tools
• Equity measures
• The pool of facilitators should be
  representative of the larger South African
  population

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Facilitator selection, approval and executive
training

• Executive training
• PALAMA provides executive Training of Trainer
  interventions through which approved EDP
  facilitators
• - are exposed to PALAMA facilitator
  requirements
• - Getting to know Government
• - are exposed to adult learning principles
  (Andragogy)
• - Case study development
• - Story telling techniques and approaches
• - International best-practice
• - Focus group expectations

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Curriculum Management Branch CADRE AND
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
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The Minister for Public Service and
Administrations 10 priorities

• Public sector cadre development programme
• Ethics, anti-corruption and administrative
  justice training
• Management and leadership development
• Breaking barriers to Public Service employment
• Human, financial, project and programme
  management
• Building the capacity of public servants to
  implement programmes through skills development
  and deployment to the coal face of service
  delivery
• Frontline and support staff training
• Support local government turn-around strategy
  through training
• Monitoring and evaluation training and
• Continental and international capacity building.

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CLD Developing managers who care, serve and
deliver
I want to!
I can!

• Organisational culture and ethos define the ways
  things are done
• norms to support delivery
• supportive leadership
• value driven delivery

• Building knowledge and skills through
• skills development
• training
• networks
• research
• sharing knowledge
• education

I am allowed!
Formal and informal authority, structures,
regulations enable or limit participation and
engagement to move beyond policy to practice.
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CLD Developing managers who care, serve and
deliver
Functional at work Management development
providing the core skills for effective
management of government services
Responsive to/at work Developing responsible
leadership by understanding the bigger impact of
decisions and cultivating good judgement
Ready to work Induction and action learning
Performing at work Doing what needs to be done
to ensure delivery
Relevant at work Continuing professional
development to keep updated on new approaches,
research and information
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CLD Conceptual areas of work

• To design, develop and maintain a leadership
  pathway for the public service through leadership
  development programmes for entry, junior, middle,
  senior managers, political principals at local,
  provincial and national level.
• To provide opportunities for middle and senior
  managers to be accelerated to senior levels
  through relevant accelerated development
  programmes
• To provide real time learning interventions, and
  networking opportunities for senior managers and
  political principals in an innovative, high
  impact manner
• To ensure cadre development at all levels in all
  spheres through induction and cadre development
  courses

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CLD Leadership Development Pathway
C A D R E S H I P D E V
BREAKING BARRIERS TO ENTRY
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CLD Leadership programmes and interventions
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CLD what do we do

• Empower junior, middle and senior managers and
  executives as leaders who can direct people,
  processes, and institutions to deliver
• Design and development of course materials
• Coordination of programme rollout
• Course logistics and administration
• Coordinate and integrate providers and partners
  to meet needs with quality
• Undertake research to ensure best practice and
  impact
• Quality assurance
• Certification of successful learners

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