Find out about centrally-funded learning programmes
Explore the courses and programmes civil servants can do by securing a centrally-funded place.
Hundreds of places are funded centrally on some of the Civil Service’s most impactful learning courses and programmes. That means they are effectively free to departments.
Under Government Skills’ centrally-funded learning programme, each department or arms length body is allocated a specific number of free places on these courses and programmes. The number of places each organisation gets is dependent on its headcount.
If you are interested in applying for a centrally-funded place on one of these courses, please refer to your organisation’s intranet or speak to your line manager.
Accredited pathway for senior civil service line managers
A programme designed to build excellence in line management among civil servants at SCS1 grade.
Accredited pathway for senior civil service line managers
Building effective teams
A course devised to give all civil servants who lead teams the tools they need to develop a high performing team.
Coaching skills
A course to help you identify how best to use the skills of rapport building, deep listening and active questioning as part of coaching-style conversations using the GROW model.
Conducting high quality conversations
A course to help you develop your skills in communicating in a way that is self-assured, respectful, engaging and effective - which are necessary for successful relationships with clients and colleagues.
Conducting high quality conversations
Creating compelling narratives
This course explores the value of a narrative in times of change and how creating stories can be a powerful way of connecting with people and helping them to understand what change will mean.
Creating compelling narratives
Delegation: Achieving results through others
This course explains to new managers how to delegate, and supports more experienced managers who want to refresh their skills or deal with a specific challenge.
Delegation: Achieving results through others
Leading in ambiguity
This course for civil servants of all grades is about learning to tolerate, accept, and manage ambiguity and uncertainty using a range of tools and skills.
Objective setting
This workshop for line managers Grades 7 and above highlights the ways in which objective setting encourages better engagement from your team and helps to motivate them to achieve their goals.
Management: Foundation programme
A programme for any civil servant new to management. It is a modular programme, including peer-to-peer learning and networking opportunities.
Management: Foundation programme
Management: Practitioner Programme
This programme will focus on the more challenging aspects of leading and managing. Modules include strategy, technology, data and communicating change with authenticity.
Management: Practitioner Programme
Management: Senior Practitioner Programme
This programme focuses on the complexities of being a leader and manager with a large number of people reporting to you and your teams. You will be able to describe the systems-thinking required to balance the strategic needs of your business unit with the broader needs of the agency or department. This skill will help you to deliver complex objectives.
Management: Senior Practitioner Programme
Managing reactions to change
A course to help you understand the psychology behind why you and others feel the way you do about change. It will also explore a range of techniques you can use to help you manage how your team reacts to change and uncertainty.
Stepping into leadership
Specially designed for civil servants from HEO to Grades 7 who are taking on border leadership roles and starting to manage larger teams or leading across teams or departments.