Northeast Ohio – Strategic Management & Results Training

This program will:

• Enhance public manager productivity through training and required work related projects
• Provide Professional Designation, Continuing Education Units, and CSU Levin College of Urban Affairs Academic Credit (8 graduate hours or 15 undergraduate hours)

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NEO SMART is a public management development program that will help our regional governments render higher-quality services with more efficiency and accountability. Public managers who participate will be accountable for their performance as measured by the specific project results achieved.

This program will professionalize and empower the region’s public sector work force. It will build the strong management skills needed to transform organizational cultures to be more efficient, effective and customer-oriented. NEO SMART will ensure that organizational goals are institutionalized by professionally trained public managers who are responsible for sustaining the delivery of improved government services.

Managers will learn improved managerial efficiency and effectiveness. They will enhance their ability to handle multiple tasks and learn innovative approaches to everyday problems. They will learn and practice improved methods of intergovernmental communication and will connect knowledge and action through the two required projects.

NEO SMART projects fulfill an important function within the curriculum design. They provide a public management laboratory for experiential learning where both participants and Levin College students and faculty can directly apply and practice workshop and classroom theories and acquired skills. Levin College graduate students will be embedded as team members in the collaborative project teams. As such they will directly link the College’s expertise with each project team’s needs. In this way, the project teams will bring to bear the resources of the CSU Levin College, our public agencies, and the greater community to solve regional problems.

A new cohort is set to begin in the Wayne County area in the summer of 2009. Please contact Rob Ziol for more information, or by calling 216/875-9971.