Jump-start your conference experience by attending these interactive and practical workshops. These information-packed sessions are a great opportunity to network with fellow attendees while taking a hands-on, common-sense approach to mastering employee engagement strategies that will enhance your understanding of the informative, case study presentations throughout the entire conference.

Choose A or B or BOTH for Maximum Value and Learning

Change Management 101:
How To Prepare, Manage And Engage Your Leadership And Employees To Drive Performance And Achieve Results

• Maximize the probability of success
• Develop ownership for the transition
• Minimize resistance, and build a "change competency" into the organization

The ultimate goal is to move employees from a state of uncertainly to a state of readiness by maximizing their awareness of the change, their ability to change, and their willingness to make the transition.

In this hands-on session, you will learn how employee engagement helped drive organizational change at several different government agencies and how their lessons learned can be applied to your own change initiatives.

• Engage your leadership and employees in the initial stages of the change process
• Define the change barriers and assess the risks involved
• Develop a comprehensive engagement strategy
• Implement the change
• Measure the success of the change process

WORKSHOP LEADER: Grant R. McLaughlin is a Principal in the global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Grant has more than 17 years of experience in strategic communication and stakeholder engagement working with a variety of public sector and not-for-profit organizations.

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12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Lunch On Your Own

1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP B

Many agencies understand the importance of building a performance management program to help them effectively measure the success of their initiatives – but how do you ensure alignment with critical stakeholders at all levels of the organization? Furthermore, how do leaders know that a performance management program will do—or is doing— the “right” things for their agency? And, since every agency is unique, just what are those “right” things anyway?

This interactive workshop session will provide tools, techniques, and leading practices you can use to define your own performance measurement program. It will provide approaches to ensure performance management efforts – both large and small – achieve the “right” things for your agency.

In this session, we will share collaborative performance management approaches, case studies, and leading practices.

• Ensure your agency’s performance management program is based on principles of effective performance management
• Analyze and identify desired improvements in your performance management program
• Determine a realistic way ahead to achieve true agency performance improvements and by doing so, engage employees across your organization

Attend this session to discover what it takes to create an effective performance management program that engages employees at all levels and how to get started building them into your own organization.

WORKSHOP LEADERS: Andy Vogelsang, PhD, is currently the Performance Management Practice Leader at Capgemini Government Solutions. He has spent 20 years building his expertise in performance management and measurement, including ten years of management consulting and ten years of government service.