Students arrange with their employers to dedicate 1.5 days of work time to the training, while the remaining 1.5 days comes from the students' personal time. A minimum of 20 hours of instruction is required for each module. The PEMM program is funded through a unique public-private partnership of government, university, business, and philanthropic interests. It will place special emphasis on the complexity of executive leadership in the public sector, as well as on the decisional dilemmas that often attend it, and features extensive use of role playing and case studies to model leadership styles, strategies, and behaviors. It examines how managers and leaders can use teams to increase productivity, creativity, and group satisfaction.
Special attention is given to the techniques and skills required to build and direct teams.
It also reviews the processes that help promote long-term change planning towards a more performance based culture. It focuses on building the discipline, skills, and techniques needed in project management, including customer identification, scheduling, performance measures, estimating costs and budgeting, human resource allocation, project tracking, and project evaluation. Typically, analysis is prospective in nature, anticipating the likely future consequences of a particular policy option, while evaluation is retrospective, focusing on whether the selected policy option has achieved its intended purpose. Students learn why and how such assessments are conducted, as well as their appropriate uses and limitations in the American public policy process. Students learn basic and advanced financial and cost analysis tools, with emphasis on auditing and cost comparison methodologies and quantitative techniques for deriving and evaluating cost data.