Seminars

The curriculum is based on how the existing Government policies provide incentives to the private sector to invest in and deploy alternative energy approaches, as well as directives within the Executive Branch to use commercially viable alternative energy technologies to provide for environmental improvements and facilitate energy security in the United States. Federal managers will be educated on what the alternative energy technologies are and what criteria should be applied to evaluate and implement them in government programs.
Course Objectives

•  Government’s role in incentivizing commercially viable alternative energy approaches; 
•  Benefits of deploying alternative energy technologies;
•  Performance metrics, cost/benefit analyses, and preparing budget justification for new alternative energy 
  initiatives;
•  Options to incentivize alternative energy approaches;
•  The relationship between alternative energy, America’s energy security, and national security policy;
•  The politics of alternative energy approaches;
•  Alternative energy and its role in the domestic economy;
•  Skills required for managers evaluating emerging alternative energy technologies;
•  Global initiatives;
•  Electric Transportation;
•  Conservation energy;
•  Nuclear energy as a viable option; and
•  Agriculture industry contributions to alternative energy.

This seminar will show how the linking of performance measures with budget information can lead to improved organizational performance. Participants will define their respective organization’s path to alignment while examining other agencies’ current successes and lessons learned. The course also teaches the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) and OMB-sanctioned assessment tools. The curriculum will show that as performance measurements and budget issues become even more tightly linked in years to come, organizational performance and the Federal Budget will serve as a critical planning resource. The course will include class exercises and case studies to develop and evaluate performance measures.

The curriculum is taught by ex and current-government executives with an extensive knowledge of the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch processes and procedures required to enact the Federal Budget as a whole. Their insight will provide an unbiased comprehensive explanation of the facts pertaining to the Federal Budget without making judgments on the political issues. With this information, the participant will have a better foundation of knowledge to make judgments on current issues and policies.

The course will be conducted in a semi-formal classroom environment with all participants encouraged to ask questions at any time. Further, all instructors and EOP Foundation personnel will be on hand throughout the duration of the course to respond to any questions that may arise. All staff members can be approached at any time during the course and will also be available before and after the daily class schedule.

Course Objectives
The course will cover in detail the various processes involved during the formulation and implementation of the budget. Upon completion of the course, participants will have a clear knowledge of the following:

•  Understanding how performance measures can be developed to focus workforce efforts and improve the organization;
•  Understanding of how to develop and present performance information to improve prospects of gaining full
  financial support for departmental programs;
•  Knowledge of the Government Performance and Results Act and its relevance to each Department and Agency 
  within the Government;
•  Knowledge of the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) and how it is used to evaluate a program’s purpose,
  design, planning, management, results, and accountability to determine its overall effectiveness;
•  Understanding the difference between Presidential and Congressional priorities and the conflicts that must be 
  resolved; and
•  Learning how performance measures can be developed to focus employee efforts and improve the organization.

This curriculum is based on providing the participants with a comprehensive overview of the Executive Branch formulation, decision making, presentation, and execution processes associated with the Annual President’s Budget. It also addresses the career executive’s role in the Congressional Budget and Appropriations process and how the Executive Branch participates.

In addition to the overall Budget process, the curriculum will focus on how the executive level organization’s operational allocation and evaluation criteria should be addressed. The curriculum will focus on the interface between career and political executives at the departmental level ranging from Deputy Assistant Secretary Level to cabinet officers. It will discuss how executives should approach the annual review of their base budget and new and revised budget proposals from the field through OMB. This will include the focus on how to improve departmental budget presentations.
The curriculum also addresses how to prepare witnesses for formal OMB and Congressional hearings and prepare political executives for informal sessions with OMB and Congressional staff. This includes building and maintaining effective relationships between career executives and appropriations sub-committee clerks, OMB examiners/Branch Chiefs/Division Chiefs, subject matter stakeholders and specialized media. Finally, it will address how to ensure effective writing associated with budget issues at the staff level.

The curriculum is taught by ex and current-government executives with an extensive knowledge of the Executive Branch and Congressional Branch processes and procedures required to enact the Federal budget as a whole. Their insight will showcase the professional KSA’s required to be successful without making subjective judgments on the politically charged issues. The participants will have an interactive session to share perspectives on how to effectively participate in the entire process.

The course will be conducted in a semi-formal classroom environment with all participants encouraged to ask questions at any time. Further, all instructors and a contingent of EOP Foundation personnel will be on hand throughout the course to respond to any questions or queries that may arise. These staff members can be approached at any time during the course and will also be available before and after the daily class schedule.

Course Objectives

The course will cover in detail the various processes involved during the formulation and implementation of the budget. Upon completion of the course, participants will have a clear knowledge of the following:

•  Politics of partisan political parties and politics of state and local/non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and
  special interests to include Medicaid;
•  Understanding Congressional actions including Concurrent budget resolution, Reconciliation bills, Authorization
  bills, Appropriation bills/acts; Program execution; Scorekeeping; and Dynamic scoring;
•  Understanding the roles of the Executive Branch, Congress, and other independent organizations responsibilities of the
  preparation of the President’s budget;
•  Understanding OMB and White House review of departmental requests, Departmental appeals of OMB passbacks,
  preparing budget documents for submission to Congress, and Mid-year budget updates; 
•  Justifying the budget to departmental political executives and OMB career executives, both in formal hearings and
  informal meetings on the budget proposals; and
•  Preparing budget briefing materials for formal hearings with departmental officials and Congressional officials with a
  focus on the compatibility between the budget briefing materials, justification, and testimony.

This curriculum is based on providing the participants with the executive branch formulation, decision making, presentation, and execution processes associated with producing, presenting, and executing the President’s budget. It also provides the Congressional budget and Appropriations process, submission to Congress, and how the Executive Branch participates. During the first week, participants will learn the political, policy and macro-economic implication affecting the budgetary decision making process. The second week of this seminar will focus on a case study which will provide a hands-on, in-class simulation of the Executive and Congressional Branch budget process inclusive of tips for presenting a successful budget.

The curriculum is taught by ex and current-government executives with an extensive knowledge of the Executive Branch and Congressional Branch processes and procedures required to enact the Federal budget as a whole. Their insight will showcase the professional KSA’s required to be successful without making subjective judgments on the politically charged issues. The participant will have the objective foundation to effectively participate in the entire process.

The course will be conducted in a semi-formal classroom environment with all participants encouraged to ask questions at any time. Further, all instructors and a contingent of EOP Foundation personnel will be on hand throughout the duration of the course to respond to any questions or queries that may arise. These staff members can be approached at any time during the course and will also be available before and after the daily class schedule.

Course Objectives

The course will cover in detail the various processes involved during the formulation and implementation of the budget. Upon completion of the course, participants will have a clear knowledge of the following:

• Addressing the Administration’s budget priorities;
• Understanding the partisan and institutional politics affecting the budget;
• Learning the key elements of budget, covering both discretionary and mandatory appropriations, and projections of
  future deficit and debt levels;
• Learning the details associated with both the Executive and Legislative Branch budget related processes; 
• Learning Executive Branch rules for budget formulation as detailed in OMB Circular A-11, “Preparation, Submission and
• Execution of the Budget;”
• Understanding performance measures and how to set effective measures and standards for departmental programs; 
• Preparing effective budget justification, focusing on the importance of understanding your audience, writing
  various components both clearly and successfully, inclusive of providing critical information on the benefits and
  performance requirements; 
• Justifying departmental budgets to OMB and the Congress; 
• Understanding the role of stakeholders throughout the process; 
• Improving leadership skills by learning how to deploy the most effective skill mix to manage the process;
• Understanding the difference between Presidential and Congressional priorities and the conflicts that must be resolved; and
• Learning how performance measures can be developed to focus employee efforts and improve the organization.

This curriculum is based on providing the participants with a comprehensive overview of the Executive Branch formulation, decision making, presentation, and execution processes associated with the Annual President’s Budget. It also provides the Congressional Budget and Appropriations process and how the Executive Branch participates.

The curriculum will include a discussion of key budgetary data required to facilitate the formulation of the budget, including the pricing of new and revised budget activities. It will also prepare departmental supervisory and management levels for formal OMB and Congressional hearings, and for appeals at OMB, programmatic initiatives and sessions between executives, examiners, branch officials, and division chiefs. It will incorporate the preparation of new or revised budget proposals submitted by the field organization and how to facilitate successful decision making processes at all levels through the department. Finally, it will define the roles of the offices of the CFO, bureau and departmental policy, other policies within the department, field and departmental budget staff, and the Inspector General audit.

The curriculum is taught by ex and current-government executives with an extensive knowledge of the Executive Branch and Congressional Branch processes and procedures required to enact the Federal budget as a whole. Their insight will showcase the professional KSA’s required to be successful without making subjective judgments on the politically charged issues. The participant will have the subjective foundation to effectively participate in the entire process.

The course will be conducted in a semi-formal classroom environment with all participants encouraged to ask questions at any time. Further, all instructors and a contingent of EOP Foundation personnel will be on hand throughout the entire duration of the course to respond to any questions or queries that may arise. These staff members can be approached at any time during the course and will also be available before and after the daily class schedule.

Course Objectives

The course will cover in detail the various processes involved during the formulation and implementation of the budget. Upon completion of the course, participants will have a clear knowledge of the following:

• Transition politics including the margin of control that one of the parties has in Congress;
• The Budget program life cycle, including Program/project office, Agency/bureau, Department, President, 
• Congressional authorizers, Congressional appropriators, CBO, House/Senate, House/Senate Conferences, 
• House/Senate, President, Treasury/OMB , and Program/Project;
• The formulation of the President’s budget; understanding Congressional actions including Concurrent budget
  resolution, Reconciliation bills, Authorization bills, Appropriation bills/acts; Program execution; Scorekeeping;
  and Dynamic scoring; 
• The roles of the Executive Branch, Congress, and other independent organizations responsibilities of the preparation of the President’s budget;
• OMB preparation of departmental budgets, including Strategic plans, Annual performance plans, and Annual
  performance reports; 
• Budgetary actions that appear to be gimmicks, such as Sunset dates; Leasing; and Annual rather than permanent fixes to tax issues; and
• Budget presentation focusing on program executives and departmental budget staff.

Despite being obscure, CBO and OMB budget scoring is essential for shaping legislation and making quantitatively informed policy decisions in understated, but important ways. This course will discuss Federal budget scoring processes as well as the methods associated with conducting budget scoring. This course will include exercises to ensure that participants can conduct scoring in the same manner as an OMB or CBO analyst would.

Course Objectives

Having an understanding of and being able to perform the correct budget scoring techniques used to rate government programs that are integral to effective governance. Class members will learn how CBO gets guidance from the House and Senate Budget Committees and estimates the cost of each bill (appropriations and direct spending authorization) that provides money before the bill goes to the floor of each House. A major focus of the course will be to ensure that each class member has a full understanding of how bills and programs are scored so that they will have a basic understanding of budget scoring rules and methodologies. After successful completion of this course, participants will:

• Understand the statutory basis for conducting scoring analysis on budgetary proposals so class participants will be able to justify budget scoring decisions based on statutory law.
• Understand how to use budget scoring as a tool to determine the actual impact of new and revised budget proposals enabling class participants to maximize their organizations programs.
• Understand budget scoring rules and the reasons for differences between CBO and OMB scoring analysis. 
• This knowledge will help them to respond to these organizations more appropriately.
• Have interactive exercises to practice scoring discretionary and mandatory programs to test that each class member has the required skills necessary to perform budget scoring.

Although there are differing views on the subject of Global Climate Change, there are foundational principles that govern policy making in this arena. This course will focus on assisting managers, executives, and other Federal employees in understanding the context in which global climate change policies are decided and implemented, as well as the international dimensions of such policies.

The course will begin by educating participants on the background, rhetoric, and modern issues, associated with Global Climate Change policy. The course will give participants a sufficient understanding of the science behind global climate change before exploring contemporary issues from the different relevant perspectives – i.e. Federal government, foreign superpowers, developing nations, private sector companies, interest groups, public perception, etc. The course will then focus on contemporary issues paramount to the Global Climate Change discussion, including Copenhagen and Mexico City Climate Change conferences, and Cap-and-Trade legislation. Finally, the course will incorporate previous modules to impart a number of management related techniques focused on increasing the participant’s leadership and financial management aptitude in relation to Global Climate Issues.

Course Objectives

Class participants will have instruction which is associated with:

• Gaining a better understanding of global climate policy issues;
• Improved analytical and research tactics;
• Improved understanding of Global Climate Change related rhetoric;
• Presentation instruments: testimony; Q&As; advocacy documents; correspondence; speeches;
• Development of management and leadership skills; and
• Understanding of the human dynamics behind coalition building.

Policymaking in the United States government is conducted through an ongoing series of interactions comprised of experts in each issue area the Federal government deals with (agriculture policy, defense policy, environmental policy, etc.). This course will give participants the tools necessary to identify relevant coalition stakeholders to make effective policy decisions. This course will discuss the procedural steps involved in coalition building. This course will include exercises to ensure that participants understand the importance of coalition building and how they are built within an agency and with outside stakeholders involved in federal policymaking.

Course Objectives

In the federal government, coalition building is fundamental to effective policymaking. Bringing experts from differing viewpoints into the policymaking equation is the ideal way to develop policies that optimize benefit. The conglomerate of experts from different political perspectives is commonly referred to as forming “power clusters.” These power clusters are the stakeholders for each policy issue area that develop and implement federal policy in America. This course will provide Federal managers with the necessary tools to build and operate successful coalitions.

After successful completion of this course, participants will:

• Understand and be able to identify the stakeholders that make up power clusters and be able to describe their
  role in building policy coalitions, thus leading to better policymaking and more effective governance.
• Be able to identify each key stakeholder involved in policy-making power cluster in several of the issue areas
  class members are involved with (environmental policy, regulatory policy, budget policy, etc.).
• Understand the politics of coalition building and why political sensitivities are important when interacting with a
  particular coalition. Class members will be able to identify and employ these political sensitivities when
  conducting policymaking.
• Have interactive coalition building exercises in class that will include role playing designed to facilitate
  understanding of the coalition building process and the politics involved in the negotiations and the influencing
  of these coalitions.

For every decision made by the Executive Branch and every crisis managed by government executives, there is a Congressman or Senator tasked with oversight of executive decision-making to ensure it complies with legislative intentions. There are also legislators who may not have a specific oversight role, but who would like to find out more about Executive Branch decision-making for constituent services. In all cases, it is important to accurately represent the decision making process, context and the reasoning used by executives behind it.

The Executive Branch makes tens of thousands of complex decisions daily in order to balance competing goods. Some of those decisions, such as those pertaining to budgetary matters or national security, have far-ranging impacts; others have far less visible impacts. However, irrespective of the breadth or the impact of the decision, government executives may at any time be called before Congress to inform the legislature of their policies, decisions, and the effects of legislation on the American public.

Congressional Testimony for Executive Branch Officials educates government executives in the processes of Congressional Testimony at every stage of testifying before Congress. Because the Executive Branch engages unique processes at the policy, budgetary, regulatory, and management stages of decision-making the way that the Executive functions is often opaque and hard to understand to Members of the U.S. Senate and Congress. In many cases, this is simply a matter of translating Executive Processes into rationales that non-subject matter experts can understand, in others testimony requires placing decisions and programs in the context of intended, and sometimes unintended, consequences. This course provides participants comprehensive instruction and insight into the techniques, processes, and strategies behind presenting Congressional testimony effectively. The practical curriculum identifies and presents in five modules what executive branch officials need to know about Congress before presenting before committees and then spends six modules coaching government executives how to write and present testimony and effectively answering Congressional questions after testimony. Additionally, the course also addresses the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders involved in Congressional oversight process and how to craft testimony to address the concerns of each.

Proper protocol and the U.S. Congress – The course will focus on the mechanics of presenting before Congress, techniques for dealing with Congressional staff, how to prepare and submit written testimony and the historical evolution of the practice of the Executive Branch testifying before Congress.

Testimony the Congressional Record and the Senate Record – The course will focus on how to compose effective and accurate written submissions in order to frame testimony before a committee, detail the ability to revise and extend remarks after testimony and how to walk back potentially incendiary testimony sessions.

Congress in Executive Branch Oversight – The course will focus on the practical implications of Congressional oversight and how that effects decisions on how to present testimony regarding Executive Branch decisions and programs in response to Congressional inquiry.

Presidential and Partisan Politics in Testifying before Congress – The course will focus on how political strength and weakness can determine questions from Members of Congress and Senators, how shifting institutional strength changes lines of inquiry, how to address politicized programs and how to present from positions of neutral competence despite overwhelming political pressure.

Testimony and Furthering Objectives – The course will focus on how each participant in a hearing room comes with a particular set of objectives and how the role of a good witness is to consider each of these objectives, weigh the various considerations and present data in a matter which accurately reflects the needs of Government while not unintentionally politicizing or stoking political rivalries within Congress.

Writing for Congress – The course will focus on how to prepare written testimony for Congress, including how to boil away pedantic detail for Congressional staff that are not necessarily subject matter experts, yet provide all relevant and requested facts and understanding the writing format and styles most effective for written testimony before Congress.

Answering questions from Congressmen, Senators and Congressional Staff – The course will focus on how to efficiently, effectively answer questions from Committee staff and others as tasked by legislators while at the same time balancing understanding how those answers could effect competing programmatic needs.

Course Objectives

The principal objective of Congressional Testimony for Executive Branch Officials is to educate government executives how to testify before Congress and what that means for an individual government executive in terms of policy, budget, regulations, and management. The EOP Foundation has devised the course such that upon completion, course participants will have achieved the following outcomes:

They will understand how testifying before Congress and the scrutiny that Congress provides can change oversight and administration of the agency’s policy, budget, regulations, and management;

• Understand how to provide exceptional written testimony;
  
  
• Achieve a high level of comfort in testifying before Congress;
  
  
• Understand primary stakeholders on Congressional and Senate Committees;
  
  
• Knowledge of how partisan politics and election results change the nature of Congressional testimony;
  
  
• How to anticipate those programs and issues for which testimony will be required; and
  
  
• How to prepare for testimony in a way which enhances agency reputation during the question periods.
  
  

Congressional Testimony and Oversight – Participants will have a comprehension of how the testimony process can create additional issues for Congressional oversight or enhance the reputation of various departments and agencies depending on the kind and level of responsiveness.

Providing Written Testimony – Executives will understand how to craft written testimony in a way that is easily accessible to lawmakers and Congressional aides who may not be subject matter experts in the department, agency or field in question.

Practical Testimony – Participants will practice testifying before Congress, receive feedback about which styles are appropriate for which committees and how to maximize impact of written testimony during the question and answer period.

Congressional Stakeholders – Executives will learn how to recognize the different Congressional stakeholders, create ‘testimony issue maps’ which are specific to committees and hearing types, develop strategies for dealing with leading questions and Congressional staff inquiries.

Congressional Politics and Testimony – Participants will understand how decision-making agendas are reviewed and revamped in different Congresses, how partisan and institutional politics between the Executive Branch, stakeholders, and Congress change the kind of questions asked, the types of testimony required and how to move forward with.

Anticipating Congressional Questions – Executives will learn strategies for anticipating which programs and issues will require repeated Congressional testimony depending on the political, news, and regulatory cycle outside of those hearings normally held.

Testimony Preparation – Participants will understand how to put together programs to prepare themselves and their superiors for testimony by teaching how to create a rigorous simulation that allows presenters to hone speaking skills and anticipate questions and objections.

The U. S. Government facilitates credit through loans, loan guarantees, subsidies, and other instruments for a broad array of applications ranging from individual college loans to multibillion dollar international development projects. Even though many Federal credit programs vary significantly, they each share a comment element: they are key instruments of American domestic and international policy. Following that general theme, participants will learn about how the Government views and manages these programs and how each impacts policy.

Course Objectives

• After successful completion of this course, participants will understand:
• The importance of Federal credit a policy implementation tool;
• How Federal credit impacts the Federal budget;
• OMB’s role in approving and disapproving Federal credit programs;
• CBO’s role in scoring Federal credit programs;
• Macroeconomic considerations the government faces when both offering Federal credit and setting its terms;
• International impacts of Federal credit; and
• Federal decision factors in setting credit risk subsidy costs.

Executive Branch Decision Making is formulated to educate government executives in the processes the Executive Branch employs at each stage of the decision-making process. The Executive Branch engages unique processes at the policy, budgetary, regulatory, and management stages of decision-making. This course will give participants comprehensive instruction and insight into the techniques, processes, and policies behind the decision-making process at each of these stages. Additionally, the course also addresses the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders involved in Executive Branch decision-making. Executive Branch Decision-Making will incorporate areas of focus that will include:

Decision-Making Procedures: The course will focus on the mechanics of Executive Branch decision-making processes and procedures including inter- and intra-agency procedures, techniques employed by major decision-makers in the Executive Branch, and the historical evolution of the decision-making process in the Executive Branch.

Presidential and Partisan Politics and Decision-Making: The course will focus on the effect on decision-making of Presidential and Congressional elections, Presidential transition periods, and how partisan politics have influenced Administration’s decision-making policies and processes.

U.S. Budget and Executive Branch Decision-Making: The course will focus on the decisions that precede and follow the publication of the annual U.S. Budget, how budget constraints affect Executive Branch decision-making, and the decision-making processes for determining budgetary areas of focus.

Decision-Making and the Regulatory System: The course will focus on regulatory agency decision-making processes, how Executive Branch decision-making polices are adopted by Executive Branch agencies, the impact of decision-making processes on regulation drafting procedures, and the effect of Executive Branch decision-making processes on state and local governments and the private sector

Effective Negotiation Strategies: The course will focus on how negotiation is applied in Executive Branch and agency decision-making, how to effectually employ negotiation strategies in decision-making, and how Administration’s have engaged and responded to negotiation in Executive Branch decision-making determinations.

Course Objectives

The principal objective of Executive Branch Decision-Making is to educate government executives how Executive Branch decisions are made at major stages of government processes—policy, budget, regulatory, and management. EOP Foundation has devised the course such that upon completion course participants will have achieved the following outcomes:

• Specific decision-making processes: Participants will have a comprehension of the substantial scope of specific decision-making processes in all stages of Federal governance, the significance to the public and private sector of a defined decision-making process, and the role government executives in Executive Branch decision-making
  
  
• Decision-making stakeholders: Executives will learn how to recognize the key decision-making position classifications in the Executive Branch and will have a “roadmap” of stakeholders and positions vital to Executive Branch decision-making.
  
  
• Partisan politics decision-making: Participants will understand how decision-making agendas are reviewed and revamped in different Administrations, how partisan and institutional politics between the Executive Branch, stakeholders, and Congress affect the decision-making outcomes and how changing politics can affect their roles as government executives as well as the future implications of recent decision-making policy changes.
  
  
• Integration of decision-making processes: Executives will learn strategies for imparting learned decision-making processes to other Federal employees and how to synthesize specific decision-making processes with existing agency procedures.
  
  
• Incorporating negotiation strategies: Participants will understand how to effectively negotiate with stakeholders during decision-making processes, what areas of emphasis are most effective during decision-making negotiations, and how to initiate the negotiations within the decision-making framework.

This course focuses on diversity and its importance within the Federal government. The modules emphasize participation and interpersonal communication, and participants are encouraged to share relevant, real-life work experiences and reflect on the impact of diversity within their respective agencies. The course employs a variety of methodologies, including lecture, discussion, case study, practical and experiential exercises, and role play simulation. Course instructors are leaders in their fields who have experience in academia and/or the Federal service.

Course Objectives

Today’s workforce has rapidly changing demographics. Increasingly, new entrants into the Federal workforce are minorities from varying backgrounds. In order to achieve its vision and mission, it is imperative that an agency’s employees understand, respect, and value individual differences. Moreover, an agency must develop and use measures and rewards to hold its employees accountable for achieving results that embody the principles of diversity. An inclusive workplace, whether in business or government, maximizes the talents of each individual to achieve results.

This course drives participants to learn how diversity contributes to a more efficient and effective Federal workforce. They also learn how social diversity and informational diversity have proven to contribute to higher levels of performance and success in organizations. Diversity is a social reality and, as such, it is a prerequisite to any organization’s ability to perform critical analysis, be creative, and prevent group think. After successfully completing the course, participants will be able to:

• Develop business plans, policies and procedures, and strategies to recruit, develop, and retain a diverse workforce.
• Foster an inclusive culture that promotes teamwork, acceptance, and productivity.
• Value diverse concepts and perspectives.
• Understand the value of diversity in conducting analysis, developing solutions, and achieving organizational goals and objectives.

The course employs a combination of interactive lectures led by module instructors who are experts in the various applied aspects of environmental justice policy implementation. The curriculum is focused on providing the information Federal managers must employ as part of the routine responsibilities of implementing environmental justice policies. Following an introductory overview of the statutory implications of environmental justice, the course will discuss the principle tenants of the government’s environmental justice policies and how these policies are being addressed in both the environmental community and the private sector. An environmental justice case study is one of the vehicles that will be utilized to teach the analytical requirements and how to evaluate success. The course will also include a panel discussion comprised of private sector executives and environmental justice activists. The panel is targeted to highlight the current issues associated with government environmental justice related requirements. The course will teach the significance of disproportionate impact analysis and its importance to the success of federal policy in environmental justice communities. Finally, the course will discuss how environmental justice policies are being addressed in each Federal department, agency, and commission.

Course Objectives

The Obama Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency have declared that they are going to focus their attention on and make policy decisions based on environmental injustices that affect low-income and minority populations. The objective of this course is to familiarize Federal managers with the nuances contained within environmental justice policies and how they can use the knowledge gained in this course to have environmental justice principles in mind when permitting hazardous facilities, enforcing environmental laws, and cleaning up contaminated sites. This course examines how the cross-cultural study of human-environmental relations can improve our understanding of contemporary environmental problems and their solutions. After successful completion of this course, participants will:

• Understand how the Civil Rights Act and environmental justice policies are intertwined so that Federal managers will be able to relate environmental justice to the Civil Rights Act.
  
  
• Understand the politics of environmental justice.
  
  
• Have the ability to coordinate interagency decision-making associated with environmental justice policies.
  
  
• Posses the capability to implement environmental justice polices via case study approach.
  
  
• Have improved their negotiating and analytical skills.
  
  
• Have participated in interactive instruction and role playing designed around an environmental justice panel discussion.
  
  
• Develop proactive strategies and techniques to implement environmental justice in their agencies programs and projects.
  
  
• Have improved their leadership skills through translating the impact associated with maintaining the appropriate skill mix to preserve credibility in the process.

This seminar will provide Federal employees with an opportunity to build an understanding of complex policy issues and how to resolve them without harm to the environment. It offers insight into the fields of law, the social sciences, ecology, management and economics, environmental policies, and politics. Participants will enhance their critical thinking and decision-making skills as they examine environmental policy and participate in a number of hands-on learning experience modules in which they can apply their knowledge to real-world problems.

Course Objectives

During this ethics course, participants will:

• Learn how to identify and integrate effective management of environmental issues within the Federal, state and local governments, and communities.
  
  
• Learn to develop policies that make environmental concerns an integral part of the planning and decision making process and commit sufficient resources to implement effective environmental programs.
  
  
• Learn to incorporate accountability as a basis for environmental stewardship and encourage cost effective and innovative ways to improve upon environmental policy.

This course provides context for the themes covered and uses lessons learned to address current issues, rules, and requirements.

The curriculum conveys current Government policies inclusive of the legal perspective, history, legislation, and agency rules and regulations. The curriculum is also designed to provide the appropriate approaches for participants to utilize knowledge obtained from the private sector. Federal employees learn how to implement the Obama Administration’s renewed focus on transparency, participation, and collaboration.

Course Objectives

Course participants are expected to conclude the course with improved understanding and ability in three areas:

• The conceptual context of ethics policy—the first module provides the framework for understanding ethics in the government. Understanding the basis of ethics policy and how it is formulated provides participants the context to understand why they are working to address ethical requirements. This understanding improves compliance and the quality of ethics-related reports.
  
  
• The substantive knowledge of ethics policy—modules two and three focus on the rules, regulations, and reporting associated with ethics policies of the Federal government. This is the typical area of focus for most programs and answers what, where, and when ethics policies must be addressed.
  
  
• The practical tools of ethics policy—modules four and five transition participants from understanding substantive ethical requirements to how to apply that knowledge. Participants will conclude the program having actively engaged ethical scenarios and drafted documents required of their positions. These modules answer how ethics policies are to be addressed.

This course provides participants instruction and practice in presenting positions to media and emphasizes developing media relations techniques. The curriculum is tailored to developing the unique communication skills needed by Federal executives.

Executive Branch Media Training will incorporate areas of focus that will include:

• Strategies for effective media communication;
  
  
• Crisis communication;
  
  
• Presentation techniques for different media formats;
  
  
• Understand primary stakeholders on Congressional and Senate Committees;
  
  
• Editorial politics and the editorial decision-making process; and
  
  
• Politics of understanding audiences.

Effective Media Communication – Best practice communication styles are a main focus of the course and participants will be taught how to build a narrative story for Government programs and present them effectively to media stakeholders.

Crisis Communications – The course emphasizes that getting the message first and getting it right are the two keys to reaching media in a crisis and will instruct participants in the most effective techniques for achieving this objective. The course teaches executives how to own their own story and build their own narrative that advances the Government’s goals from positions of neutral competence.

Presenting to Different Media – The course will focus on effective and efficient communication to different media outlets and will train executives to tailor their message to different formats including print, online, radio, and television.

Editorial Politics and Decision-Making – The course will focus on ‘unpacking’ the decision-making process in media organizations and allow participants some insight into the reasons for which certain stories are “picked up” and disseminated in order for Government executives to understand how to tailor message and facts for maximum effect and efficiency.

Politics of Audiences – The course will focus on training executives to recognize who the real audience, behind a given reporter, is for the message. The course will also instruct executives why adopting a client-service model of fact based presentation to determine areas of focus for media presentations is an effective technique.

Course Objectives

Executive Branch Media Training’s objectives are to educate government executives on how media outlets make decisions to present stories of interest to editorial leadership while at the same time teaching executives how to present the Government’s views from a position of neutral competence. Upon completion of the course, participants will have achieved the following outcomes:

• Learned techniques to improve effectiveness in interviews and presentations before media;
  
  
• Understood strategic use of language and audience;
  
  
• Learned how to respond to crisis communications scenarios;
  
  
• Drafted/prepared instruments focused on local, state and national media;
  
  
• Undergone interview preparation; and
  
  
• Prepared testimony, advocacy documents, correspondence, speeches, and press releases.

Improved Media Effectiveness – Participants will have a comprehension of the substantial scope of media relations, the significance of different media formats, the significance of appropriate preparation depending on media type , the significance of determining story, and narrative prior to an interview.

Strategic Use of Language – Participants will understand the unique position of language in narrative and presentation of a story.

Crisis Communications – Participants will understand the significance of crisis presentation, adopting different postures to create greater flexibility for narrative change as the facts evolve and how to position the Government over and against a hostile media environment.

Role of Local, State and National Media – Participants will understand the significance of interlocking narrative and themes for disaggregated media within a particular venue.

Prepare Written Documents – Participants will learn and practice preparing advocacy documents in different formats including Congressional testimony, correspondence, speeches, and press releases.

This course will focus on the unique, experience-based knowledge of the module instructors to enhance the relationship and interface amongst career and political executives. The course will discuss techniques that participants can use to meet their organizational performance criteria, thus attaining their program objectives. Further, the course will provide instruction associated with how career and political executives should conduct their business both internally and externally, who the key participants in agency and departmental interactions are, as well as the skills for interfacing with private sector stakeholders. In addition, curriculum will focus on the institutional memory of career executives and what role that plays, career and political executives role in the budget process, the regulatory process, and program guidance, and how effective communication between career and political executives is attained.

Course Objectives

This course is designed to give Federal managers the tools necessary to conduct efficient and effective governance by improving career and political executive's ability to interface with one another. After successful completion of this course, participants will:

• Be able to integrate the politics of writing and neutral competence.
  
  
• Understand how the career executive's institutional memory affects their relationship with the political executive.
  
  
• Be able to coordinate decision-making between career and political executives.
  
  
• Understand what happens to government during a Presidential transition.
  
  
• Have improved their negotiating and analytical skills.
  
  
• Have improved their leadership skills through translating the impact associated with maintaining the appropriate skill mix to preserve credibility in the process.

The approach of this course is to provide a brief historical context as a precursor to engaging contemporary nuclear policy issues.

A few major themes emerge from the coverage in each module: the broad areas of nuclear security, energy, research, and political concerns; domestic leadership; public and private cooperation, marketplace competition; international cooperation and competition; environmental considerations; safety considerations; and fiscal considerations.

Experts with experience in both the public and private sectors will present lectures on an issue-by-issue basis while seeking to maximize participants' engagement through a question-and- answer dialectic. Participants will be encouraged to engage in nuclear policy issues, which have received heightened attention based on their importance to national security, the environment, jobs, and domestic infrastructure.

The final portion of the seminar will include a review of the materials covered and participant survey.

Course Objectives

Government officials will have a working knowledge of a broader range of nuclear policy issues. Course participants are expected to conclude the course with an improved and broadened understanding of nuclear policy. Many participants may join the class with a working understanding of subject matter within one of the modules. If so, they will be called upon to make contributions based on this within the class setting. However, efficient and effective execution of nuclear policy, inclusive of domestic and international collaboration, is improved when officials have an appreciation of the diversity of challenges as presented via each module.

Thus, the primary objective is to introduce each participant to a more diverse set of challenges than they have previously been exposed to. Secondarily, based on the expertise of our presenters and class discussion, participants are expected to reach a more comprehensive understanding of each topic.

Government officials will gain practical experience handling nuclear policy issues. Course participants will be called on to integrate their understanding of all areas of nuclear policy in a collaborative setting. Groups will be tasked with formulating solutions to hypothetical scenarios that require consideration of all modules. The primary objective of this exercise is to translate participants' improved understanding of nuclear policy into team problem-solving. Additionally, these exercises will serve as a review of material presented over the duration of the course.

Regulatory policy and processes are integral to the workings of the Federal government and is always the subject of heated debate regardless of Administration. Regulations are the most widely-used tool employed by the United States Government to facilitate effective government operations and compliance with congressional mandates. As such, it is essential that Federal employees understand why regulations are such an important tool for governance and the policies and processes associated with the Federal regulatory system.

Understanding the Regulatory Policy of the United States Government is designed to educate government executives on how to be more effective and successful in the discharge of their regulatory roles inclusive of analysis, interpretation, development, and implementation. The course is comprehensive and addresses the various roles and responsibilities of all involved in the process. Understanding the Regulatory Policy of the United States will incorporate areas of focus that will include:

• The relationship of regulations to statutory mandating their development;
  
  
• Regulatory Procedures mandated by OMB and associated presidential orders;
  
  
• The significance of Presidential Regulatory Agendas;
  
  
• Budgetary and Economic Implications of Regulatory Actions;
  
  
• Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA);
  
  
• Appropriate stakeholder participation in the process; and
  
  
• Congressional oversight.

Regulatory Procedures – The course will focus on regulatory review processes and procedures including: agency rulemaking development, planning and public notification, OMB's review of significant rulemakings and their coordination role pre-promulgation.

Changing Policies in Presidential Regulatory Agendas – The course will address Administration's policies on regulation and economic recovery, political implications associated with centralized review and stakeholder involvement, market subsidies, and government implementation.

Budgetary and Economic Implications of Regulatory Actions – This area of focus will focus on pricing federal operations, funded and non-funded mandates, state and local governments, issues raised by the private sector, and appropriate government sensitivity.

Cost-Benefit Analysis – The course will focus on how cost-benefit analysis, principles associated with social benefits of a rule, roles of government's executive management responsibilities to the regulatory system.

Ethics Rules in the Regulatory Process – The course will focus on the Administration's standards governing ethics in government and stakeholder relationships and enforcement policies.

The Regulatory Process during Presidential Transition – The course will address how Administrations communicate their key initiatives and manage leadership transitions impacting implementation of regulatory agendas. 
Course Objectives

The primary objective of Understanding the Regulatory Policy of the United States Government is to give government officials the perspective, ICSAs, and understanding of the processes and politics that affect the regulatory process. The course has been developed to insure that course participants comprehend the following outcomes:

•  The differing philosophies of focus, methodology, and scope of regulation;
  
  
•  An understanding of the regulatory review process at all levels;
  
  
•  Methodology and in-class exercise on employing cost-benefit analysis in the regulatory process;
  
  
•  The facts associated with both partisan and institutional in the regulatory process;
  
  
•  The statutory role and politics impacts of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the regulatory process as well as informal realities associated with their role in interagency issues; and
  
  
• The role and importance of strict adherence to ethical standards in the regulatory process.

Impact and Scope of Regulation – Participants will have a comprehension of the breadth of the regulatory process, the significance of regulation in the government and private sector, operations, how to evaluate economic impacts and the economy, and the role government executives have in both development and Federal agency compliance with regulations.

The Regulatory Review Process – Executives will have a complete understanding of the constitutional functions of regulatory processes and policies, how policy initiatives affect the regulatory review process, and methods for successful navigation of the regulatory system.

How Cost-benefit Analysis is Utilized – Executives will learn methods and the uses of cost-benefit analysis, how CBA drives the regulatory process, and how a complete understanding of CBA makes participation in the interagency process more effective.

Effect of Changing Politics – Participants will understand how partisan and institutional politics between the Executive Branch, stakeholders, and Congress affect the regulatory outcomes (including the role of CBA), how changing politics can affect their roles as government executives as well as the future implications of recent policy changes.

Role of Office of Management and Budget – Executives will understand the prominent role OMB has in the regulatory review process, the guidelines governing interactions with OMB, and how to successfully network and/or collaborate with OMB within a regulatory framework.

Importance of Ethics – Executives will learn the Trump's Administration's ethical guidelines, the rules and standards governing public/private partnerships, and processes for developing ethical standards.

The curriculum will discuss how OMB assists assist the President in overseeing the preparation of the Federal budget and to supervise its administration in Executive Branch agencies. The course will educate participants on how OMB evaluates the effectiveness of agency programs, policies, and procedures, assesses competing funding demands among agencies, and sets funding priorities. The curriculum will discuss the steps OMB takes to ensure that agency reports, rules, testimony, and proposed legislation are consistent with the President's budget and with Administration policies. OMB also oversees and coordinates the Administration's procurement, financial management, information, and regulatory policies. It will also discuss OMB's role in helping to improve administrative management, to develop better performance measures and coordinating mechanisms, and to reduce any unnecessary burdens on the public.

Course Objectives

The course will cover in detail the various processes involved during the formulation and implementation of the budget. Upon completion of the course, participants will have a clear knowledge of the following:

• The importance of OMB circulars and their effect on the various departments and agencies within the government. The curriculum will also discuss the diversity of departmental responsibilities and how they translate to circulars;
  
  
• OMB's relationship with authorization committees and appropriations committees and White House;
  
  
• The impacts and implications of Presidential executive orders;
  
  
• The politics of OMB and how this relates to Congress;
  
  
• Congressional authority and regulatory plans issued to OMB from Departments and Agencies;
  
  
• OMB's role in the regulatory review process; and
  
  
• The oversight of OMB regarding the President's Management Agenda and Presidential direction in budget policy decision-making.

Every day someone invents a tool to communicate faster, this course will teach participants to communicate better. The focus is on applied writing so that Federal employees can communicate better to those outside their agencies. Nothing rivals the power of a speech: to transform an idea into action. Chart a new and clear course. Energize employees. Excite stakeholders. Contain a crisis. Define a debate. Several techniques and strategies for effective speechwriting will be taught, with an emphasis on using the tools of rhetoric, argument. Every successful leader has a unique and interesting story to tell: a story that can move, persuade, and inspire. The most compelling speeches are powerful arguments for action. Seminar instructors include comprehensive guidance in using speechwriting to enhance government agencies' mission, responsibilities of government executives in leadership roles. Additionally, throughout the course, participants take part in live exercises to develop their leadership communication skills.

Executive Branch Speechwriting will incorporate areas of focus that will include:

•  Creating arguments for action;
  
  
•  Finding the story in the policy;
  
  
•  Defining and developing message;
  
  
•  Audience targeting;
  
  
•  Expressing vision; and
  
  
•  Defining goals.

Argument for Action: The course teaches that a speech should do more than describe a Government policy or action, it should help others understand why it exists and motivate them to follow it and build upon it.

Stories in Policy: The course teaches that rather than merely communicating Government policy, effective and efficient governance involves making policies 'real' for others and that involves taking them down to a human level.

Message Development: The course will focus on effective and efficient message development for different objectives. Executives are trained to tailor their message to different formats including print, online, radio and television.

Audience Targeting: The course will focus on training executives to recognize who the real audience is for a given message. Adopting a client-service model of fact based presentation to determine areas of focus for speeches.

Expressing vision: Our participants will learn how to develop their own voice, expressing their own vision, while advancing their professional goals.

Defining Goals: The class will focus on developing executive ability to use speeches to develop Government goals and build goal-oriented coalitions.

Course Objectives

Participants learn techniques and improve their ability to prepare speeches for use in agency, interagency, Congressional and public forums. After successfully completing the course, participants will be able to draft speeches expressing Government vision while advancing goals and articulating concepts in different forms such as:

•  Commencement Addresses;
  
  
•  Issue Papers;
  
  
•  Keynote Addresses;
  
  
•  Stump Speeches;
  
  
•  Op-Eds;
  
  
•  Congressional Testimony; and
  
  
•  Government Positioning Speeches.

Keynote & Commencement Addresses: Executives will learn to use major opportunities such as these to reinforce policies and mark new initiatives.

Issue Papers: Participants will learn and practice preparing advocacy documents in different formats including Agency testimony, correspondence, speeches, and press releases.

Op-Eds: Participants will learn and practice making written arguments in 600 to 800 words that are targeted to expand and advance Government policy.

Congressional Testimony: Participants will learn and practice the unique skill of prepared Congressional testimony and how to sustain the narrative and story through it.

This course will focus on the unique, experience-based knowledge of the module instructors to enhance the writing skills of senior Federal executives. The course will emphasize interactive writing exercises that tie into the participants' daily work in the Federal government rather than the typical lecture format. An instructional lecture on each module, lasting approximately 15-20 minutes, will be delivered by the module facilitator. Specific written assignments unique to the Federal government will be completed individually by each participant in the computer lab immediately following the lecture. A feedback session for each module, based on the written products generated by participants, will be conducted by the module facilitator to conclude each module. Visual aids, case studies, and Foundation books and materials will be used to enhance the learning experience. Course instructors will be current and former Federal executives from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), departmental political and career executives from the Executive Branch, and Congressional committee members and staff directors.

Course Objectives

The ability to prepare clear, concise written instruments that advocate a policy position or advance the agency's mission is a skill essential to effective Government leaders. There are numerous documents unique to the Federal government, and each calls for a different writing style and is directed at a specific audience. In Government, success and efficiency largely depend on the specialized knowledge and skills taught in this course.

• Participants will learn techniques targeted to improve their effectiveness in drafting/preparing agency-, interagency- and Congressional-focused written instruments. After successfully completing the course, participants will be able to draft/prepare:
  
  
• Comprehensive base information documents: science policy/strategy papers and policy/white papers.
  
  
• Decision making documents: issue papers; decision memoranda; and, appeal documents.
  
  
• Specialized Government written instruments: briefing memoranda; regulatory documents; budget justifications; and, guidance directives.
  
  
• Presentation instruments: testimony; Q&As; advocacy documents; correspondence; speeches; and, press
  releases.

Additionally, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate executive responsiveness to specific public policy issues by delegating written instruments such as scientific reports and policy papers.
  
  
• Delegate writing assignments (issue papers, decision memoranda, appeal documents, and briefing memoranda) to facilitate effective governance.
  
  
• Understand the written instruments (regulatory documents, budget justifications, guidance directives, and written testimony) required for educating, guiding, and operating more effectively and efficiently within their organization.
  
  
• Effectively communicate with their stakeholders by learning to write and delegate the writing of advocacy documents, correspondence, speeches, and press releases.
  
  
• Formulate effective policy by learning two forces that drive the policy making process: (1) the interpretation of statutory intent of the responsible Federal department/agency; and, (2) the development of implementation strategies associated with drafting appropriate regulatory guidance.
  
  
• Understand the regulatory development process, including: statutory interpretation and compliance with statutory intent; cost-benefit analyses; translation of the analytical result into the draft regulation; review and comment associated with the draft regulation; and, oversight associated with the implementation and effectiveness of the regulation.

This course will focus on applied writing based on the written instruments most common to preparing the analysis, presentations, and guidance associated with the Federal government's responsibilities to stakeholders. Several techniques and strategies for effective writing will be taught, with an overarching emphasis on how to determine the appropriate length of documents while providing the substance and clarity Federal executives need. The course includes writing exercises that demonstrate the formats and constructs Federal employees can use to effectively manage and provide targeted information to stakeholders. There is also a review of grammatical constructs and stylistic devices frequently used in Government writing. Visual aids, case studies, and Foundation books and materials will be used to enhance the learning experience. Course instructors will be current and former executives from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), departmental political and career executives from the Executive branch, and Congressional committee members and staff directors.

Course Objectives

The ability to prepare clear, concise written instruments that advocate a policy position or advance the agency's mission is a skill essential to effective Government leaders. There are numerous documents unique to the Federal government, and each calls for a different writing style and is directed at a specific audience. In Government, success and efficiency largely depend on the specialized knowledge and skills taught in this course.

• Participants will learn techniques targeted to improve their effectiveness in drafting/preparing agency-, interagency- and Congressional-focused written instruments. After successfully completing the course, participants will be able to draft/prepare:
  
  
• Comprehensive base information documents: science policy/strategy papers and policy/white papers.
  
  
• Decision making documents: issue papers; decision memoranda; and, appeal documents.
  
  
• Specialized Government written instruments: briefing memoranda; regulatory documents; budget justifications; and, guidance directives.
  
  
• Presentation instruments: testimony; Q&As; advocacy documents; correspondence; speeches; and, press
  releases.

This course will focus on the unique, experience-based knowledge of the module instructors to enhance the writing skills of Federal supervisors. The course will emphasize interactive writing exercises that tie into the participants' daily work in the Federal government rather than the typical lecture format. An instructional lecture on each module, lasting approximately 15-20 minutes, will be delivered by the module facilitator. Specific written assignments unique to the Federal government will be completed individually by each participant in the computer lab immediately following the lecture. A feedback session for each module, based on the written products generated by participants, will be conducted by the module facilitator to conclude each module. Visual aids, case studies, and Foundation books and materials will be used to enhance the learning experience. Course instructors will be current and former executives from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), departmental political and career executives from the Executive branch, and Congressional committee members and staff directors.

Course Objectives
The ability to prepare clear, concise written instruments that advocate a policy position or advance the agency's mission is a skill essential to effective Government leaders. There are numerous documents unique to the Federal government, and each calls for a different writing style and is directed at a specific audience. In Government, success and efficiency largely depend on the specialized knowledge and skills taught in this course.

• Participants will learn techniques targeted to improve their effectiveness in drafting/preparing agency-, interagency- and Congressional-focused written instruments. After successfully completing the course, participants will be able to draft/prepare:
  
  
• Comprehensive base information documents: science policy/strategy papers and policy/white papers.
  
  
• Decision making documents: issue papers; decision memoranda; and, appeal documents.
  
  
• Specialized Government written instruments: briefing memoranda; regulatory documents; budget justifications;
  and, guidance directives.
  
  
• Presentation instruments: testimony; Q&As; advocacy documents; correspondence; speeches; and, press
  releases.
  
  
• Apply a range of formats for writing within their organization.
  
  
• Conduct task and audience analysis.
  
  
• Recognize strategies for results-oriented writing.
  
  
• Utilize techniques for planning information and managing writing tasks.
  
  
• Evaluate conventional ways to arrange written instruments and identify alternatives brought about by technological advances.
  
  
• Formulate plans for improving the writing skills of others within their organization as a part of their overall managerial responsibility.
  
  
• Describe the communication processes of their organization (internal/external audiences, formats, frequency, etc.) and the role of managerial writing in the Federal government.
  
  
• Explain changes in the communication process among recent Administrations, focusing on the high-technology, global management environment.
  Identify communication barriers within and between agencies, NGOs and the private sector, and apply the deterrence techniques that effective Government writing provides.

This seminar includes a simulation that presents participants with an example of the number and scope of decisions that policy officials must make in developing and defending the budget and how this impacts the private sector.

This seminar provides a framework for understanding the political, scientific, social, and economic issues that shape regulatory development. Sessions include an examination of the rulemaking process, including executive branch efforts at regulatory reform, the conduct of regulatory analysis, including cost/benefit tests; and the Executive Order 12866, "Regulatory Planning and Review" process.

The seminar features presentations by current executive branch officials, former government executives, business leaders, and representatives from the academic community with an extensive working knowledge of regulatory development and review. Regulations that impact your company's bottom line will be the focus of this custom seminar.

The EOP Foundation provides a training session for private sector executives with a focus on writing to the Federal government. The seminar covers different styles of writing including policy papers, issue papers and decision memoranda, regulations and guidance documents and congressional communications.

The EOP Foundation provides seminars on ethics, based on the Foundation-authored book "Understanding the Ethics Policy of the U.S. Government". The seminar covers a wide range of topics including financial disclosure and whistleblower activities, as well as private sector ethics practices under Sarbanes/Oxley and Campaign Finance Reform.

The EOP Foundation has provided short (1/2 - 1 day) seminar programs on the federal budget process for individual Fortune 500 companies, including FMC Corporation, the Dow Chemical Corporation and Siemens Corporation. The Foundation also has provided seminars for industry and professional associations, including the Nuclear Energy Institute, the American Society of Association Executives and the Congressional Quarterly.