I'm the Maine ambassador for the ideas
at the beginning and what I am sharing
with them are ideas about public
management as a professional discipline
which means their ideas about developing
and presenting knowledge about our
subject and it's also about how to
develop professional practitioners their
abilities their knowledge and their
competences let's start with some facts
in many countries governments take
responsibility for developing the
personnel who work in government then
they take it in the form of a training
institution or educational institution I
work at the National School of Public
Administration in Brazil we are a school
of government so we are supposed to
develop capacities and public servants
in the federal government but also in
regional and local governments in Brazil
our students there are adults
there are particulars the access
university through very specific courses
designed for practitioners they are
searching for us in order to help them
to solve real problems the public
managers whoever is involved in public
organisations are essentially problem
solvers we've been offering different
courses in different subjects related to
public administration activities but
when you talk about public management
itself I'm not sure that we were able to
offer something that was actually useful
for the public servants when they are
back to their jobs and activities what
happens today someone goes to a public
management school and gets a lot of
theory public manager must have
theoretical knowledge of course but
that's not enough and as you know
management leadership isn't really a
skill it's not like being able to
assemble furniture that's delivered to
you by Ek a-- it really is important
that everybody can speak the same
language
is a better way to take advantage of the
theory that public management schools
teach public managers and so Michaels
approach it's it's very interesting
because it can be adapted to this the
perspective that Michael brought to us
was really applied you know it it really
made sense for the predictors because
they could see how to apply that in
their jobs to solve real problems if you
have a framework for problem solving
you're gonna be able to use more
effectively the theory you have learned
in order to effectively solve the
problems get better results and at the
end of the day create public value the
kind of working assumption is that
teaching management is about teaching
skills developing skills
Anna and to a degree that's true but
it's more about developing organizations
and their capabilities and that requires
professional practitioners to trade in
ideas to trade in ideas about what could
be different about the future compared
to the present and you know one thing
about the present is that the things
that will work in the future do not
exist today and in order to create
things that don't exist today you need
to communicate in ideas so to get people
in that mental space you need to get
them excited about ideas to get people
intellectually excited about Public
Management as a professional discipline
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