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Information Holdings

Institution-Specific Classes of Records

E-Learning, Campusdirect
Description: Information relating to on-line learning (Campusdirect), interactive and engaging courses adapted to the common learning needs of Public Service employees. The e-learning group includes a business development team, a client support and learning services team and a portal and information technology team.
Document Types: Clients; committees, commissions, councils, panels and task forces; conferences, meetings and symposiums; contract deliverables; information technology; library; marketing; newsletters; operations; portal; project evaluation; project plans; reports; resources index centre; strategies.
Record Number: CSPS 065

Functional Communities, Professional and Management Development
Description: Information relating to the development and delivering of professional foundation courses for managers and specialists in each of the targeted functional communities to enhance the public service's professionalism and knowledge base.
Document Types: Courses on accountability in Public Service management; authority delegation; business skills; career and personal development; finance; government communications; human resources; information management; information technology; leadership and management; policy and programs; procurement, material management and real property; science and technology; and federal regulators.
Record Number: CSPS 055

International Cooperation and Strategic Change Directorate
Description: Information relating to the support of public sector capacity building in select countries around the world through international programming, and to improve capacity to identify emerging issues and smart practices on an international scale, and providing support to departments as they build comprehensive learning plans to develop strategic priorities and manage change.
Document Types: Associations, institutes, organizations and societies; committees, commissions, councils, panels and task forces; conferences, meetings and symposiums; consulting projects; federal government institutions; foreign countries, which includes projects and delegations.
Record Number: CSPS 050

Language Training
Description: Information relating to the training of federal public servants throughout Canada in the use of both official languages and related orientation and Language Training services.
Document Types: Committees, commissions, councils, panels and task forces; conferences, meetings and symposiums; English and French programs and courses; development and learning technologies; orientation services; partnerships and quality assurance; registration.
Record Number: CSPS 075

Leadership and Career Development
Description: Information relating to Leadership and Career Development and to the design, development and delivery of calendar and contracted products, services and programs to meet future leaders' needs. Focus is on ensuring leadership competencies (values and ethics, strategic thinking, engagement; and management excellence); supporting succession planning and renewal; and supporting community building.
Document Types: Leadership curriculum, comprising foundational leadership courses, leading change courses, and strategy-specific courses such as Aboriginal Issues and Self-Government and Mikawiwin: Leadership and Aboriginal Affairs; educational components of corporate career development programs (MTP, CAP); Direxion; authority delegation training for newly appointed senior executives; blended learning products including on-line modules and action learning groups; committees, panels and task forces; conferences, meetings and symposiums; university accreditation.
Record Number: CSPS 015

Organizational Leadership and Innovation
Description: Information relating to supporting and encouraging the senior leader community and their organizations to use learning strategies to manage change and accelerate innovation in public management.
Document Types: Contributions; courses and programs, such as Executive Leadership Programs and Services, Leadership: Reflection and Action Program, Living Leadership: The Executive Excellence Program, and Senior Leaders Program; fellowship program; publications; research themes, such as action-research roundtables, governance; strategic international and national relations, including associations, institutes, organization and societies; colleges, schools, universities; committees, commissions, councils, panels and task forces; conferences, meetings, and symposiums; federal government institutions; university strategy.
Record Number: CSPS 030

Regional Operations & Learning Events
Description: Information relating to regional offices, supporting other branches and managing the provision of individual learning services outside the NCR, designing and delivering the Orientation to the Public Service program, which is a key element of the learning framework, and designing and delivering conferences and special events.
Document Types: Conferences and special events, such as armchair discussions; Orientation to the Public Service; and regional operations.
Record Number: CSPS 025

Registrar
Description: Information relating to supporting departments and individual learners across the broad range of learning programs and services available by the School, by assigning Departmental Portfolio Directors to individual departments and agencies, by providing an integrated registration service and contact centre for all learners, by providing learning and program evaluation and quality assessment services.
Document Types: Departmental portfolio management; evaluation and quality assurance; learning information and reporting; registration.
Record Number: CSPS 010