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Executive and Leadership Development

Program code
BXC05 (TBC)
Core responsibility
Employer
In Departmental Plans
2019-20 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The Executive Leadership and Development (ELD) program fosters government-wide excellence in executive leadership and management through modern and agile policy frameworks. The program supports deputy heads and heads of human resources with policy advice and support to enable a high-performing and diverse executive cadre.

ELD’s key activities include: strategic direction and oversight in the areas of executive performance; leadership and talent management; terms and conditions of employment; classification and organization design; compensation; collective management and resourcing of Assistant Deputy Minister positions; and co-governance and co-delivery of the Joint Learning Program with the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2019-20. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25Executive and Leadership Development 2019-20: $10.2MExecutive and Leadership Development 2020-21: $9.6MExecutive and Leadership Development 2021-22: $9.8MExecutive and Leadership Development 2022-23: $12.2MExecutive and Leadership Development 2023-24: $7.8MExecutive and Leadership Development 2024-25: $7.8MExecutive and Leadership DevelopmentExecutive Pol…Executive and Leadership Development
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data. The line at the bottom shows this program's names over time.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Executive and Leadership DevelopmentThis program2019-20 – 2024-25$41.7M

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2020-21Renamed from “Executive Policies and Initiatives” to “Executive and Leadership Development”.GC InfoBase program names by year
2021-22Indicators added: Percentage of executive employees who have a completed Talent Management QuestionnaireDepartmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

Percentage of executive employees who have a completed annual written performance assessment
Expected result: The executive workforce is held accountable for delivering results and demonstrating the key leadership competencies
84%2019-20✗ not met92.2%2020-21✗ not met99%2021-22– no result

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2019-20≥ 99%202084%
Executive performance agreements are considered complete when the executive and the manager acknowledge that the assessment has been discussed in the online performance management system. The percentage of executives who completed their 2019-2020 performance agreements is expected to be higher than 84%. To reduce the reporting burden on departments during the pandemic, TBS did not validate the da…
Not met
2020-21≥ 99%202192.2%
The 2020–21 result was extracted in early November 2021 and is expected to increase as more departments clean up their year-end data and the next performance management cycle gets underway.
Not met
2021-22≥ 99%2021—
The completion of the 2021-2022 executive talent management cycle is currently in progress and results will be available starting in the fall of 2022.
No result reported
Percentage of executive employees who have a completed Talent Management Questionnaire
Expected result: Departments have the information they need to manage executive talent and to support the development and retention of executives
86%2021-22– no result

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2021-22≥ 86%2021—
The completion of the 2021-2022 executive performance cycle is currently in progress and results will be available starting in the fall of 2022.
No result reported

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2019-20: $7.8M2019-20: $10.2M2019-202020-21: $7.9M2020-21: $9.6M2020-212021-22: $9.7M2021-22: $9.8M2021-222022-23: $10M2022-23: $12.2M2022-232023-24: $7.8M2023-242024-25: $7.8M2024-25
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2019-20$7.8M$10.2M
2020-21$7.9M$9.6M
2021-22$9.7M$9.8M
2022-23$10M$12.2M
2023-24$7.8M*—
2024-25$7.8M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2019-20: 432019-20: 572019-202020-21: 422020-21: 552020-212021-22: 412021-22: 522021-222022-23: 602022-23: 622022-232023-24: 412023-242024-25: 412024-25
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2019-204357
2020-214255
2021-224152
2022-236062
2023-2441*—
2024-2541*—

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.