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Appointing advisory board, youth council, and commission member vacancies in U.S. local government

Appointing advisory board, youth council, and commission member vacancies in U.S. local government

Guest blog by Pat Jacquez-Nares

This is a blog series written by the alumni of the Implementing Public Policy Executive Education Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Participants successfully completed this 6-month online learning course in December 2020. These are their learning journey stories.

This was a journey that I was not prepared for, but I enjoyed the ride. I was given the opportunity from the mayor of the city that I work for, he also is my boss, to take this course, and I did not know what to expect. I was very thankful that he considered me and gave me the opportunity to attend this course. The course was very good and very useful in my daily interactions at work and at home. The key learnings that I will take from this course are the PDIA tools to help solve my problems. The need to identify the problem, then break down the problem, identify where the problems lie, find the solutions to these problems, fix these problems, then reflect on the outcome and keep doing it until the entire problem is solved. The mayor also gave me the problem he wanted me to solve with this training course. The boards and commissions vacancies and the retention of the existing members. This also entailed the youth council for the city I work for. 

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Posted on April 26, 2022May 18, 2022Author Kathryn LangCategories BSC, Governance, IPP 2020, North AmericaTags Advisory board, BSC, Building State Capability, Center for International Development, CID, Civic Engagement, Fishbone, Harvard, Harvard Kennedy School, HKS, IPP, IPP2020, Local Commissions, Local Government, PDIA, Scholarships, United States, Youth, Youth councilLeave a comment on Appointing advisory board, youth council, and commission member vacancies in U.S. local government
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