Take performance measurement from complexity to clarity through these interactive workshops guaranteed to jumpstart your conference experience. These information-packed sessions are a great opportunity to network with fellow attendees while taking a hands-on, common-sense approach to mastering measurement 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

How To Integrate Strategic Planning, Performance Measures, Accounting, Budgeting, Performance Contracting And Employee Performance Management Into An Integrated Management System Focused On Results For Customers

"Managing for Results" means developing an integrated management system that focuses people and resources on results for customers at both the operational and strategic levels. Award-winning government organizations have done it and done it well. In this session, you will learn how the Cities of Austin, Nashville, Seattle, the District of Columbia, and the Counties of Maricopa, Arizona and Franklin, Ohio and the U.S. Forest Service have successfully developed these integrated management systems focused on results. Apply what they have learned to your own organization by hearing how they implemented a corporate performance management system.

• Use a consistent and comprehensive approach to strategic business planning that organizes services around results and provides the program structure
• Integrate the strategic business plans with the accounting and budgeting systems
• Use this highly successful planning and performance measurement process to develop result and efficiency measures for operational and administrative programs
• Use this advanced system to align individual employee performance with organization performance by integrating operational performance measures, including results, into the performance plans of every employee
• Use their strategic business plans to succeed at performance-based contracting
• Achieve new levels of accountability by telling taxpayers what they are getting for their money
• Use performance information to save money and improve performance

Attend this dynamic and highly interactive workshop to learn what it takes to successfully manage for results in your organization.

WORKSHOP LEADER: Marv Weidner, President & CEO of Weidner, Inc., has over 20 years of senior government experience. Since leaving government service in the State of Iowa in 1998, he has worked as a consultant with some of the nation's best-run federal, state and local government organizations to help them develop and implement Managing for Results.

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11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Lunch On Your Own

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AFTERNOON PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP B

Performance Measurement: How To Do It, How To Use It

What gets measured, gets done. A sound performance measurement system drives government in a positive direction. It strengthens accountability to elected officials, it demonstrates value for money to taxpayers, and it reinforces and supports modern planning and quality assurance processes. Most importantly, performance measurement is instrumental in improving government performance at the customer, operational and strategic policy levels.

This workshop provides a simple, step-by-step guide to developing meaningful and useful performance measures for government. What is more, it focuses on the use of performance measurement in reporting, decision making, and improving services. This is an intensive, interactive workshop with many examples and case studies from a variety of government agencies. It is guaranteed to jumpstart your understanding of performance measurement and to enhance your conference experience.

• Defining the program mission
• Identifying and classifying program results
• Selecting performance indicators

• Performance planning and reporting
• Linking performance measures to a variety of management processes
• Applying simple, analytical techniques

WORKSHOP LEADER: John R. Allen is a management consultant from Toronto with 30 years experience in government performance measurement. He has served governments at all levels in both the United States and Canada, including the U.S. Department of Energy, the States of Oklahoma, Nevada, and Wisconsin, the Cities of Seattle and Toronto, along with Montgomery County, MD, and many others.