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.