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Developing Effective Management Plans to Improve Agency Performance
Develop an Effective Strategic Plan Linking Performance to Results
Create clearly defined end outcomes and develop strategies to best link your resources to meet your agency’s GPRA goals
Defining Strategies and Intermediate Outcomes
Use a Strategic Issue Landscape Assessment to determine what steps must be taken in order to implement your strategic plans and fulfill your agency’s mission
Build Stakeholder Support
Obtain the input of internal and external stakeholders to ensure your plans are fully integrated with your agency’s mission
Manage Responses to Change
Assess organization culture to ensure readiness for adoption of new performance plans and accountability requirements
January 22-23, 2004 - The Performance Institute - Arlington, Va.
Speaking Faculty

Featuring a speaking faculty that includes:
Carl DeMaio, The Performance Institute/Reason Foundation
Jeff Bergin, The Performance Institute

Agenda
Day One: January 22, 2004
Developing a Strategic Plan
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Keynote Overview: Strategic Planning integrating GPRA and PMA
Strategic Planning is an initiative that focuses on creating long-term and annual performance goals for government agencies. These plans are used as the foundation for agency performance as well as a blueprint for agency outputs. This keynote address will provide an overview of strategic planning and managing for results as outlined in GPRA and the PMA, as well as its role in the future.
The Government Performance Logic Model
9:45 Step One: Managing Senior Leadership Involvement, Stakeholder Dialogue, and Project Planning Teams
• Establish roles and accountability of efficient teams to identify specific goals from agency mission
• Incorporate the input of stakeholders in the planning and performance measurement process

10:30

Step Two: Defining Agency Mission
• Create a clear and defensible agency mission that provides a unique, significant contribution made by the organization
• Identify your program's end benefit to justify to taxpayers
11:00 Break
11:15 Step Three: Defining Outcome Goals
• Clearly identify "bottom line" results for your organization
• Provide limited, yet clearly defined pieces of evidence highlighting programmatic success
12:15 Networking Luncheon
1:15 Step Four: Issue Landscape Assessment (Internal and External SWOT Analysis)
• Conduct review of organizational capacity for change and implementation
• Identify and address areas of concern and potential within organizational structure
2:00 Step Five: Defining Strategies and Intermediate Outcome Goals
• Assess organizational change required to meet program goals
• Arrive at clear, effective strategies for achieving end outcomes
3:00 Break
3:15

Step Six: Program Alignment and Workload/Output Goals
• Integrate budgetary and management
• Identify necessary administrative outputs operating outside the framework of outcomes and strategies.

4:30 Adjourn
 
Day Two: January 23, 2004
Managing Change in Government
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00

Managing Organizational Change in Government
Implementation of new management initiatives must take into account the organizational culture and acceptance for change. To successfully manage change in an organization, capacity checks are required on an individual, team, and corporate level. This overview will discuss the frameworks required to manage change in your organization

10:00 Assessing Internal and External Resistance to Change
• Assess need for change by examining stages of transformational change
• Evaluate risk and assess the critical elements of change
• Ensure your organization can sustain change through building resilience
10:45 Break

11:00

Developing Change Management Strategies: Gauging initiatives for individuals, teams, and the organization
• Establish strategy for overall investment in change initiatives
• Acquire strategies to determine the potential and the speed for change
• Ensure a positive change process to allow future change initiatives

12:00 Networking Luncheon
1:00

Role of Effective Internal and External Communications in Leading Change
Through the use of change management frameworks, examine how to best communicate change management initiatives to your internal workforce as well as to external stakeholders and taxpayers

2:00 Case Study One: Implementation of Effective Strategic Plans and Change Management Strategies: Department of the Interior
• New FY2003-2008 Strategic Plan and its emphasis on results
• Focus on broad department missions while formulating GPRA performance plan
• Implementation of plan across departmental
2:45 Break
3:00 Case Study Two: Application of Strategic Plan in Government Organization: Chesterfield County, Virginia
• Winners of the Senate Productivity and Quality Award and Award for Continuing Excellence
• Creation of Chesterfield University - organizational competency-based learning linked to strategic goals
• Successful integration of budget and performance, bureau, and individual lines
3:45 Assessing Organizational Response and Performance: Ongoing Assessment of the decision making and the change initiatives occurring in the organization
• Establish quarterly reviews to re-assess performance measures and the execution of the strategic plan
• Continue constant internal and external communication to deliver key messages concerning project implementation
4:30 Adjourn
   

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703-894-0481
Venue 

The 2004 Best Practices Forum on Strategic Planning and Change Management in Government will be held at the Performance Institute in Arlington, Va., just one block east of the Courthouse Metro stop on the Orange Line. A public parking garage is located inside the building.

The Performance Institute
1515 N. Courthouse Rd.
Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201
703-894-0481

A continental breakfast and catered lunch will be provided for all delegates.

Hotel
The Performance Institute is located just two blocks from the Quaity Courthouse Hotel, where a limited number of rooms have been reserved at a discounted rate of $129 per night. Please call the hotel to make reservations, and be sure to ask for the Performance Institute conference rate.

Quality Courthouse
1200 N. Courthouse Rd.
Arlington, VA 22201
703-524-4000

Tuition

The fee for attending the 2004 Best Practices Forum on Strategic Planning and Change Management in Government is:

Conference $1095
Group Discounts
Reduced tuition rates for delegates who attend in groups of three or more are available by calling Blake Zach at 703-894-0481, or emailing him at [email protected].