Osgoode/FCO Certificate - Advanced
Advanced Issues in Ombuds Practice - Osgoode/FCO Certificate
Program Dates: Coming Soon
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For the more experienced Ombuds professional, this four-day advanced certificate – offered in two distinct modules – will explore and analyze some of the most challenging problems confronting today’s Ombuds.
Module 1: Complex Investigations and the Inside/Outside Perspectives on Ombuds Practice
- Investigations: conducting, funding, monitoring, reactions, results and recommendations
- Interacting with the media and addressing the perils that can arise from fake news
Module 2: Peer and Self-Evaluation of Service and Building Staff Capacity in Ombuds Practice
- Creating an inclusive working environment for Ombuds staff that are receptive to and supportive of a wide diversity of points of view, backgrounds, differences of all kinds
- Conducting an Ombuds-driven evaluation of Ombuds’ effectiveness and value for money