Training Course for Directors of Educational Centers

The Institute of Public Governance and Management (IGDP) is composed of a group of ESADE lecturers, academic assistants, researchers and administrators whose work focuses on governments and public-sector organisations.
 

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One of the main challenges facing Catalonia’s Education Service is providing the management capabilities conferred on the body by the new Education Act. ESADE, with its long track record in training managers in both the private and public sectors, has decided to exploit its expertise to provide training for school principals.

ESADE’s commitment to education dates right back to the business school’s foundation in 1958. Recently, this commitment has been renewed through Catalonia’s National Education Pact. The course is a token of this commitment and aims to redress the current lack of training regarding the management of publicly-funded education centres.

The course’s main purpose is to develop the management competences of those running public and grant-aided education centres whilst adapting proven management training approaches to take account of the special features of the non-university sector. Course implementation strikes a balance between faculty drawn from the world of education and those specialising in management.

The programme is currently undergoing official certification by the Department of Education of the Catalan Autonomic Government.

The programme’s target audience comprises Principals of publicly-funded schools, whether State-run or grant aided.

BLOCK 1. BASIC CONCEPTS
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Education: Current situation and future challenges
Objective: To agree on a general overview, build a shared language and analysis of learning and education challenges for the new context faced by schools.
Management
Objective: To strengthen participants’ perception of themselves as managers, based upon a self-demanding model of management.
Strategy
Objective: To help participants think and manage strategically.
Organisation
Objective: To develop understanding of organisations and the use of organisational design as a tool for improvement.

BLOCK 2. MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND TOOLS

Objective: To facilitate knowledge and implementation of the main management tools and systems.

Service quality management
Planning and evaluation of results
Running teams of managers and professionals
Financial management

BLOCK 3. MANAGEMENT ABILITIES

Objective: To facilitate four key aspects in exercising management in professional settings.

Inter-personal communication
Conflict management
Institutional communication
Self-knowledge as an instrument for leadership

BLOCK 4. INNOVATION AND CHANGE

Change management
Objective: To help participants understand the nature of change and make them able to lead change.
Innovation project
Objective: To put learning into practice and to analyse the extent to which teaching objectives are met.

 

The teaching methods focus strongly on participation and interaction, combining theory and practice. This approach is pursued through: exercises; group discussions; readings; individual and group-based case studies; presentation of students’ practical experience; group reflections on theory. Students are required to present a group-based innovation project in a workshop held at the end of the course in order to pass.

Students are required to attend at least 80% of the sessions to pass the course,

The programme comprises 8 blocks held between October 2011 and March 2012, plus a project presentation workshop held on the 8th of March 2012. The course timetable is as follows:

• 4 blocks of two days each (from 09.00 to 18.30 hours): Wednesday and Thursday
• 4 intensive blocks lasting a day and a half each. These will normally be held on Wednesday (15.30 to 19.00) and Thursday (09.00 to 18.30)
• 1 project presentation session

The course lasts 148 hours, which includes a tutored innovation project that will apply the lessons learnt.

Dates	Fee	Place
From 5 October, 2011 to 8 March, 2012	900 €	Barcelona

Program Director Barcelona

Manuel Férez Fernández

manuel.ferez@esade.edu

see CV

Josep Menéndez Cabrera

jose.menendez@esade.edu

see CV

Barcelona

Alba Villamor Anguiano, Product Manager

alba.villamor@esade.edu

Sandra Mena López, Program Manager

sandra.mena@esade.edu