Train your team

Bring ICMA's Certificate and Micro-Certificate programs to your jurisdiction. Offered live online and in-person, we will bring the training to you. These comprehensive, skill-building courses include content that is aligned with ICMA's Practices for Effective Local Government Management and Leadership; expert facilitation; peer-to-peer, collaborative learning; and certificates of completion.

Certificate Programs

Building and Sustaining Organizational Excellence: A Targeted Approach for Local Governments

Learn how to better align your organization's performance with stakeholder needs and expectations.

Data-Driven Decision Making

Data-driven decision making doesn't have to be rocket science. Learn how local governments can take the next steps with data - and it's easier than you might think!

Leader as Coach

Learn the best way to help develop, motivate, and retain your employees.

Leading with Excellence

Learn how to focus on the five most important things that ensure you build a high-performing and engaged team culture.

Micro-Certificate Programs

Building High Performing Board-Manager Relations

Be proactive and less reactive in working with your governing board.

Delivering Great Results from Your Vision and Strategic Plan

Organizational excellence requires that managers focus both on delivering results from their vision and strategic plan and on developing the culture of their organization.

How to Lead Decision-Making for Better Budgeting

This training focuses on budget design principles and leadership strategies that can help your government rethink budgeting and reach the best decisions.

Narrowing the Urban-Rural Divide: Methods for Small Towns to Succeed

Leveraging the right data by learning how to identify gaps and strengths in community livability, and allocate resources based on evidence.

Strengthening Resident Confidence in Local Decision-Making

Learn best practices for how to identify and engage underserved populations in your community and understand how to incorporate resident feedback in a way that is constructive,

Sustainovation: Building Sustainable Innovation-One Creative Idea at a Time

Learn the nature of innovation in government, how to sustain it—and more importantly, the powerful role that you play in making Sustainovation a reality for your organizations.

What Does It Take? Collaborating for Results

Discover strategies and techniques to Improve inter-municipal and inter-agency cooperation