U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce

This seminar provides a framework for understanding the political, scientific, social, and economic issues that shape environmental policy. You will examine the administration’s environmental agenda, institutional policy roles, and the future direction of efforts to improve environmental quality.

Through a mix of classroom, small-group, and workshop activities, you will come to understand how environmental policy is made and how new policies are initiated and implemented. Seminar leaders include current administration executives, former Government officials, business leaders, and academics.

The curriculum includes an intensive examination of the environmental issues we face now and will face in the coming years, as well as policy-based solutions from a wide variety of perspectives.

• Understand current environmental challenges and the evolving role of Federal, State, and local governments in addressing them
• Identify and understand current administration policy initiatives and implications
• Review alternative and emerging policy management methods
• Ascertain links between policy objectives and political, social, and economic issues
• Consider new directions and the future of environmental policy

• Creativity/Innovation
• External Awareness
• Flexibility
• Influencing/Negotiating
• Political Savvy