Training local elected officials to understand, decide and act throughout their mandate.
Support for elected officials and their teams on the responsibilities of their mandate, public speaking, local affairs, security, and decision-making in a crisis.
What we hand overA learning path built with you, session after session.
Each learning path is assembled to measure, based on the territory's real priorities and the profile of the elected officials being trained.
Diagnosis
Identify the territory's priorities and the profile of the elected officials to be trained.
Path design
Assemble the relevant modules from the catalog's five sequences.
Sessions & scenario practice
Alternate methodology with concrete exercises, grounded in the real experience of the mandate.
Follow-up over time
Reassess the path as priorities and the mandate evolve.
What every module delivers, whatever the topic.
Beyond the content, the same three-step mechanic. Each step produces a document that elected officials take away at the end of the day.
Map
A snapshot specific to your territory: responsibilities, stakeholders, risks or fragilities, depending on the module.
Prioritize
Issues ranked with your teams, to tell the urgent from the secondary.
Act
A roadmap you can put to work as soon as you're back at your local authority.
Combine modules based on local priorities.
Each learning path runs over 2 to 5 days, following a common thread: local diagnosis, prioritization, scenario-based practice, and locally-tailored deliverables.
Newly elected
Starting your mandate with method, posture and confidence: mandate, integrity, local finances, public procurement, public speaking, communication, participatory democracy.
Local projects
Structuring, prioritizing and funding local projects: environment, urban planning, planning documents, attractiveness, funding.
Local security
Clarifying responsibilities and organizing local protection: mayoral powers, municipal police, continuity, sensitive situations.
Preparing for a local crisis
Anticipating, deciding, coordinating and communicating under pressure: sensitive situations, decision-making, crisis unit, communication, post-crisis.
Digital crisis, information & AI
Understanding digital crises, competing narratives, and how AI can become, when used wisely, a decision-support tool in the exercise of public office.
Extended crises and aftermath
Sustaining public action over time and learning from experience: continuity, extended crises, post-crisis.
Modules adapted to your priorities.
Securing the mandate, structuring public speaking, steering local projects, organizing local protection, and strengthening decision-making in sensitive situations. Twenty-five modules, each over one day, for up to 25 participants.
01 - Foundations of the mandate
Understanding the framework, responsibilities and integrity rules
Module 01
Getting to grips with your local mandate
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 dayup to 25 participantsModule 02
Ethics and public integrity
Preventing conflicts of interest and safeguarding local decisions
Identifying risky situations and safeguarding sensitive decisions of the mandate.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 03
Local public finances
Understanding, steering and securing the municipal budget
Reading budget documents and identifying the room for manoeuvre available to the authority.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 04
Public procurement
Securing municipal purchases and improving oversight of public contracts
Positioning the elected official's role in public purchasing and spotting the decisions to secure.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 05
AI in day-to-day local government
Integrating artificial intelligence into working processes securely
Identifying the uses that deliver real gains and setting the framework that secures them.
1 dayup to 25 participants02 - Public speaking and citizens
Structuring public speaking, communication and participationModule 06
On the mic and in the field
Leading discussions in local democratic settings
Speaking with clarity in council meetings, public assemblies and citizen exchanges.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 07
Public and political communication
Structuring clear communication between officials and citizens
Making public action clear, understandable and legitimate in the eyes of citizens.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 08
Participatory democracy
Building consultation processes that are useful, clear and well-managed
Designing and steering citizen participation initiatives suited to the local area.
1 dayup to 25 participants03 - Territory, projects and local development
Steering planning and funding projectsModule 09
Environment, ecology and agriculture
Understanding environmental and agricultural issues for local public action
Identifying levers for action on ecological transition and local food systems.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 10
Urban planning and territorial transition
Implementing the city policy of tomorrow
Designing urban policies that balance development, ecological transition and social cohesion.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 11
Understanding planning documents
Local land-use plans, zoning and planning permits
Reading the concrete effects of zoning and safeguarding planning decisions.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 12
Attractiveness and local development
Building a clear, realistic, mobilizing territorial strategy
Identifying levers of attractiveness and structuring a local development trajectory.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 13
European funds and public funding
Identifying the schemes available to fund local projects
Turning political intent into a fundable, operational project.
1 dayup to 25 participants04 - Security, continuity and territorial protection
Clarifying local responsibilities and organizing protection capabilitiesModule 14
Everyday safety and the mayor's powers
Understanding local levers of action for public order
Clarifying the mayor's powers and how they interact with state security forces.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 15
Building and structuring a municipal police force
Defining an organization suited to local needs
Scoping a project to create, strengthen or reorganize a municipal police force.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 16
Continuity of public services
Preparing a territory for the domino effects of major crises
Identifying critical infrastructure and anticipating the domino effects of a local crisis.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 17
Preparing your town for sensitive situations
Detecting early warning signs before they become a local crisis
Decoding early warning signs and strengthening the territory's capacity for anticipation.
1 dayup to 25 participants05 - Anticipation, decision-making and crisis management
Strengthening organization, decision-making, communication and lessons learnedModule 18
Strategy under uncertainty
Deciding without visibility
Structuring decisions, weighing options, and making trade-offs under pressure.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 19
Organizing a municipal crisis unit
Clarifying roles, coordinating departments and deciding under pressure
Structuring the crisis unit within the municipal safeguard plan (PCS).
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 20
Crisis communication
Speaking under pressure
Delivering a clear, credible message despite uncertainty.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 21
Information crises
Managing the pressure of narratives and disinformation
Structuring credible public communication in the face of disinformation.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 22
Digital and cyber crises
Responding to cyberattacks, rumors and disruption of public services
Integrating digital risks into local crisis governance.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 23
Managing extended crises
Sustaining organization and trust over time
Maintaining essential services and preventing team burnout over the long haul.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 24
Post-crisis and active memory
Closing out without weakening, learning without freezing
Organizing the exit from crisis and turning lived experience into lessons.
1 dayup to 25 participantsModule 25
AI and crisis management
Using AI without delegating the decision to it
Integrating AI responsibly into decision support, without losing political accountability.
1 dayup to 25 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).
What you leave with.
By the end of the learning path, you and your teams leave with reference points you can put to work right away and ready-to-use tools fitted to your day-to-day.
Maps and diagnostics
Your territory laid out flat: responsibilities, actors, dependencies, watch points. A shared overview that the other three build on.
Analyses of real cases
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.
Priorities and trade-offs
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.
Simple, workable plans and procedures
Roadmaps, response protocols, responsibility matrices, validation chains. Who does what, in what order: documents the authority keeps and updates as the mandate goes on.