Mission
The
Center for Performance Management at the Performance Institute
promotes excellence and accountability to government managers
by providing the latest tools and strategies for solving managerial
and operational challenges across numerous government-mandated
areas. Our mission is to identify, study, and disseminate the
leading performance management innovations pioneered by "best-in-class"
government agencies and share this knowledge to improve transparency,
performance and accountability in government management.
Through
the Institute's national conferences on emerging issues, interactive
training programs, best-practice research reports and strategic
consulting services, the Center for provides cutting-edge expertise
in the design, implementation and evaluation of strategies to
solve operational challenges, improve customer service and enhance
organizational performance.
Performance,
Accountability and Transparency
With
the adoption of the President's Management Agenda (PMA), government
agencies are tasked with being held accountable for their performance
and the performance of their programs. To ensure that government
is accountable, it is necessary that their operations are transparent
to the citizen. The Center for Performance Management has convened
national conferences focusing on some of the main initiatives
behind improving performance management and maintaining transparency
while also promoting accountability to managers.
The
Center for Government Performance brings together "leaders
in the field" in the areas of strategic management, performance
measurement, financial management and auditing. The Government
Performance Center holds multiple trainings on pressing federal
mandates and management reforms, as an effort to bring managers
together and have them "roll up their sleeves" and
get to the heart of the issue. The Center provides a comprehensive
set of trainings on the issues designing, managing, budgeting,
evaluating, and improving government programs.
The
Center for Government Performance can help government agencies
manage organizational change as well as assist in the design
of cost-effective, outcome-oriented performance measures that
are aligned with agency mission and citizen expectations. Through
its use of the Government Performance Logic Model, government
managers can employ a simple and proven approach to measure
program or agency performance. Using clearly-defined end outcomes,
the Logic Model framework illustrates the cause and effect linkages
between program activities and outcome results
Furthering
Government Research
Aside from its public offered conferences and trainings, the
Center for Government Performance brings best practices and
key strategies to the government workforce through its publication
of Performance Institute Research Reports. By drawing on interviews
with federal managers, each report offers a look into the pressing
issues facing government agencies in their attempt to integrate
performance with management. These reports are available on
www.performanceweb.org, and government workers can stay current
with federal performance issues by signing up to receive the
monthly PMA Update e-Newsletter, outlining news and events for
each of the five PMA initiative areas.
