The Public Manager
has teamed with the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and its
Section on Certified Public Management and the American Society for Training and
Development (ASTD) to offer a 1-day workshop on best practices in government stewardship
and performance oversight to be held in Baltimore
MD, Friday, March 11, 2011. This is a pre-conference workshop for the ASPA 2011 Conference, Public Administration Without Borders.
Learning Goals
The one-day event offers interactive sessions that
explore challenges, risks and solutions in overseeing mission responsibilities
at all levels of government. Learning emphases include:
- Assessing oversight risks in an organization’s mission and
management responsibilities
- including oversight risks within program operations, financial
management, ethics, etc.
- exploring how training and education can mitigate risks
and improve performance
- reviewing techniques for engaging the public, the
government workforce, and other stakeholders
- Best practice solutions to a variety of accountability
challenges at the local, state and federal level
- Measuring the impact of agency management innovations and
training investments – through use of such tools as logic models, balanced
score-cards, etc.
- Strategies to raise attention to these matters
within government circles and the professional public management community at
large
Topics
Sessions cover such topics as:
- A global perspective on innovations in government
accountability, with presentations on building capacity in partner states,
including failing and fragile governments, and a systematic approach to
measuring government ethics world-wide
- Government accountability viewed nationally, with presentations on a survey of federal
performance improvement officers, and engaging the US Air Force performance management
- Operational stewardship, with presentations on strategies to cut costs and
improve performance, and strengthening oversight through improved acquisition management
performance
- Demonstrating value and accountability through engagement,
with presentations on program logic and strategy
mapping at the state and local level, and open government – engaging
citizens to achieve mission goals.
The 1-day interactive workshop closes with a
forum on balancing accountability and cost, with reflections on what CFOs are doing to manage
the cost of government, and the executive's
role in nurturing mission accountability.
Download the full workshop agenda and visit the ASPA conference website for more information
about the March 11 event, including confirmed speakers and session moderators.