An Open Exchange of Ideas and Best Practices

The issues facing today’s public manager can be complex, inter-related, and far-reaching. The information and ideas exchanged among professionals have become valuable resources for practitioners. The Public Manager, a unique public management journal, announces the launch of a groundbreaking new opportunity for putting it all together—the Public Discussions Program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three interactive opportunities comprise the Public Discussions Program (PDP):

 

Small Group Seminars, held 6-8 times throughout the year, focusing on specific tools and techniques germane to public policy practitioners. Offered in collaboration with partners of The Public Manager, the seminars will focus on specific issues such as performance measurement or strategic human capital.

 

 

Open Discussion Forums, held 2-3 times a year, will allow greater freedom of thought in addressing pressing challenges for public managers. Forum topics will cover issues such as curbing corruption and overseeing contractor performance.

 

 

Annual Conference—This groundbreaking series of diverse, audience-driven seminars and forums culminates with The Public Manager and ASPA's 2009 Annual Conference (November 2-3, Washington, DC). The annual conference affords an interchange of ideas and best practice insights on  “Strengthening Trust in Government: Opening Dialogues, Building Collaborations.”

 

 

Annual Conference Highlights

Who? Federal, state, and local managers and executives, public service and non-profit  professionals, students in public service or non-profit fields, and private sector workers who contract with federal, state, or local governments.

 

Why? For unparalleled information from senior practitioners and fresh opportunities for open exchange of ideas among students, young professionals, and mid-level to senior professionals.

 

Objective. To engage managers, professionals and students from a range of fields connected to public service in a collaborative, audience driven conference offering “expert” give-and-take, case illustrations presented by experienced agency practitioners, and including publication, where appropriate, of relevant materials and proceedings.

 

A mix of plenary and concurrent sessions will explore innovative approaches at all levels of government to such challenges as:

• engaging the organizational workforce, the public and other stakeholders;
• measuring organization performance and public satisfaction;
• changing the conversation between labor and management;
• strengthening relations between executive and legislative branches;
• building more effective interagency and intergovernmental collaborations and more sustainable international collaborations;
• and increasing transparency in a Web 2.0 environment, among other topics.

 

 

To learn more, visit us at
www.thepublicmanager.org/2009Conference