PSPA 600:
Development of Digital Portfolio

Competency Status: Through the development of this portfolio and lessons learned in Introduction to Public Service: PSPA600, the following competencies have been developed:

• Lead and manage public governance.

  • Effectively work with diverse internal and external stakeholders.

    • Application.

  • Motivate peers and employees to enhance organizational capacity.

    • Application​

• Participate in and contribute to the public policy process.

  • Use performance management to facilitate goal identification and execution.

    • Foundation​

  • Effectively participate in the public policy process in a role appropriate to a professional public manager.

    • Application​

  • Conduct environmental scans and identify the windows of opportunity to influence decisions.

    • Application​

• To analyze, synthesize, think critically, solve problems, and make decisions.

  • Apply decision-making theories to frame and solve public service problems.

    • Foundation​

• To articulate and apply a public service perspective.

  • Evaluate public service issues in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, equity and economy.

    • Integration​

  • Incorporate professional codes of ethics in public service decision-making to enhance integrity of public services.

    • Integration​

  • Identify strategies for improving democratic accountability in governance, including improved transparency and civic participation.

    • Integration​

• To communicate and interact productively with a diverse and changing workforce and citizenry.

  • Communicate effectively both orally (public speaking) and in writing (analytical and persuasive) for a public service organization and in the public policy process.

    • Application​

  • Meaningfully engage with people holding diverse perspectives to address public service issues.

    • Application​