A set of learning paths to support elected officials and their teams on the responsibilities of their mandate, public speaking, local affairs, security, and decision-making in a crisis.
Each learning path is assembled to measure, based on the territory's real priorities and the profile of the elected officials being trained.
Identify the territory's priorities and the profile of the elected officials to be trained.
Assemble the relevant modules from the catalog's five sequences.
Alternate methodology with concrete exercises, grounded in the real experience of the mandate.
Reassess the path as priorities and the mandate evolve.
Beyond the content, the same three-step mechanic — and three deliverables to take away at the end of the day.
A snapshot specific to your territory: responsibilities, stakeholders, risks or fragilities, depending on the module.
Issues ranked with your teams, to tell the urgent from the secondary.
A roadmap you can put to work as soon as you're back at your local authority.
Each learning path runs over 2 to 5 days, following a common thread: local diagnosis, prioritization, scenario-based practice, and locally-tailored deliverables.
Starting your mandate with method, posture and confidence: mandate, integrity, public speaking, communication, participatory democracy.
Structuring, prioritizing and funding local projects: environment, urban planning, planning documents, attractiveness, funding.
Clarifying responsibilities and organizing local protection: mayoral powers, municipal police, continuity, sensitive situations.
Anticipating, deciding, coordinating and communicating under pressure: sensitive situations, decision-making, crisis unit, communication, post-crisis.
Understanding digital crises, competing narratives, and how AI can become, when used wisely, a decision-support tool in the exercise of public office.
Sustaining public action over time and learning from experience: continuity, extended crises, post-crisis.
Securing the mandate, structuring public speaking, steering local projects, organizing local protection, and strengthening decision-making in sensitive situations. Each module runs over 1 day.
Module 01
Understanding the responsibilities and workings of local public action
Understanding the legal framework of the mandate and finding your way around a local authority's organization.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 02
Preventing conflicts of interest and safeguarding local decisions
Identifying risky situations and safeguarding sensitive decisions of the mandate.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 03
Leading discussions in local democratic settings
Speaking with clarity in council meetings, public assemblies and citizen exchanges.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 04
Structuring clear communication between officials and citizens
Making public action clear, understandable and legitimate in the eyes of citizens.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 05
Building consultation processes that are useful, clear and well-managed
Designing and steering citizen participation initiatives suited to the local area.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 06
Understanding environmental and agricultural issues for local public action
Identifying levers for action on ecological transition and local food systems.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 07
Implementing the city policy of tomorrow
Designing urban policies that balance development, ecological transition and social cohesion.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 08
Local land-use plans, zoning and planning permits
Reading the concrete effects of zoning and safeguarding planning decisions.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 09
Building a clear, realistic, mobilizing territorial strategy
Identifying levers of attractiveness and structuring a local development trajectory.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 10
Identifying the schemes available to fund local projects
Turning political intent into a fundable, operational project.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 11
Understanding local levers of action for public order
Clarifying the mayor's powers and how they interact with state security forces.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 12
Defining an organization suited to local needs
Scoping a project to create, strengthen or reorganize a municipal police force.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 13
Preparing a territory for the domino effects of major crises
Identifying critical infrastructure and anticipating the domino effects of a local crisis.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 14
Detecting early warning signs before they become a local crisis
Decoding early warning signs and strengthening the territory's capacity for anticipation.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 15
Deciding without visibility
Structuring decisions, weighing options, and making trade-offs under pressure.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 16
Clarifying roles, coordinating departments and deciding under pressure
Structuring the crisis unit within the municipal safeguard plan (PCS).
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 17
Speaking under pressure
Delivering a clear, credible message despite uncertainty.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 18
Managing the pressure of narratives and disinformation
Structuring credible public communication in the face of disinformation.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 19
Responding to cyberattacks, rumors and disruption of public services
Integrating digital risks into local crisis governance.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 20
Sustaining organization and trust over time
Maintaining essential services and preventing team burnout over the long haul.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 21
Closing out without weakening, learning without freezing
Organizing the exit from crisis and turning lived experience into lessons.
1 day5 to 15 participantsModule 22
Using AI without delegating the decision to it
Integrating AI responsibly into decision support, without losing political accountability.
1 day5 to 15 participants
Our ELISK. trainings are delivered by a Qualiopi-certified organization and can be funded through Mon Compte Élu, the French elected officials' training account (DIFE).
By the end of the learning path, you and your teams leave with reference points you can put to work right away and operational tools fitted to your day-to-day.
Your territory laid out flat: responsibilities, actors, dependencies, watch points. A shared overview that the other three deliverables build on.
A council decision, a project, a live situation from your authority, worked through together during the session. The reference points are built on your own files, which makes them usable as soon as you are back.
What comes first, what can wait, what is still open — with the reasoning kept. A common frame for the decisions ahead, set with your teams.
Roadmaps, response protocols, responsibility matrices, validation chains. Who does what, in what order: documents the authority keeps and updates as the mandate goes on.
