Government Performance Management Week is a four-day training event held in Arlington, Virginia from December 7-11, 2009. Attendees can receive up to 30 CPE credits by taking four interactive core courses on strategic planning, performance measurement, performance-based budgeting, and performance data assessment. The training features expert instructors and is intended for those involved in strategic planning, program management, budgeting, and performance analysis at all levels of government.

1. Government Performance December 7 – 11, 2009
Management Week
Arlington, VA
Government Performance
Management Week
Receive up to
30 CPE Credits
Featuring Four Interactive Core Courses:
COURSE 1: COURSE 2: COURSE 3 (OPTION 1): COURSE 3 (OPTION 2):
Strategic Planning Performance Measurement Performance-Based Budgeting Performance
Data Assessment
Create clearly Learn how to use Implement budget-
defined end outcome organizational goals performance integration Develop a plan for
goals and develop and objectives to to ensure resources assessing the reliability of
strategies to meet develop appropriate are being used and performance data reported
organizational objectives performance measures allocated effectively by your agency
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2. Government Performance Management Week
COURSE 1: STRATEGIC PLANNING
Who December 7, 2009
Should Attend 8:30
Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast
• Directors of Strategic 9:00
Planning Step 1: Connect Strategic Planning and Organizational Results
• Program Managers • Discover why traditional strategic planning processes often fall short of
delivering results
• Program Analysts • Identify the characteristics and requirements of successful strategic plans, planning
processes and implementation
• Budget Officers • Receive updates on the latest government performance mandates
• Performance Analysts
Step 2: Identify the Seven Strategic Elements of Results
Oriented Agencies
Reasons
• Establish clear linkages to provide a visible chain of evidence to current
agency value
• Measure the importance and relative impact of agency strategies
to Attend • Clearly communicate agency priorities and goals to all stakeholders
12:00
1. Learn how to use the Lunch Break
performance measures your
organization has generated
2. Discover how to ensure
strategic initiatives stay
on track “ To help build a new foundation for
3. Align your program mission the 21st century, we need to reform our
and performance measures
for greater results government so that it is more efficient, more
4. Examine which programs
transparent and more creative. That will
are the best use of demand new thinking and a new sense of
agency resources
responsibility for every dollar that is spent.”
5. Overcome challenges
in performance-based PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
budgeting
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3. Government Performance Management Week
COURSE 1: STRATEGIC PLANNING
December 7, 2009, CONTINUED December 8, 2009
1:00 8:30
Continental Breakfast
Step 3: Evaluate Strategy and Assess
Stakeholder Involvement
9:00
• Conduct a SWOT analysis to analyze internal and
external factors Step 5: Implement and Manage Strategic Plans:
• Solicit stakeholder input for your strategic planning process Best Practices in Government Strategic Planning
• Identify all parties impacted by adopting new strategies and • Conduct an organizational readiness assessment to target
define a way to engage stakeholders barriers to change
• Define role for and appoint an external performance
advisory panel
Step 4: Conduct the Strategic Planning Process
• Appoint initiative owners to keep strategic initiatives on track
• Develop results-oriented strategies to achieve
departmental outcomes
12:00
• Develop statute-based mission statements and customer Lunch Break
focused values
• Assess internal & external factors affecting agency’s delivery
of outcome
4:00
Day One Adjourns
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4. Government Performance Management Week
COURSE 2: PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
December 8, 2009, CONTINUED December 9, 2009
12:30 8:30
Conference Registration Continental Breakfast
9:00
1:00
Step 3: Understand Logic Models
Step 1: Measure Performance for Results
• Define the relationship between outcomes, measures, activities,
• Understand why you should measure performance in
outputs and inputs
your agency
• Develop a framework and a process for planning, management
• Implement the four criteria of effective performance
and evaluation
measurements systems
• Provide a structure for understanding the situation that drives the
• Illustrate the linkages between daily activities and outcomes
need for an initiative
Step 2: Identify Characteristics of Effective Step 4: Identify Outcomes and Intermediate Outcomes
Performance Management Systems • Develop end outcomes that are grounded in mission and statute
• Understand the 8 critical success factors for effective and that assess progress toward strategic goals
performance management systems • Measure only the things you can count rather than things that
• Increase data availability and make sure the data is are strategically important
readily accessible • Use the SMART framework to develop effective outcomes
• Manage and Analyze data in a uniform and consistent manner
12:00
Lunch Break
4:00
Day Two Adjourns 1:00
Step 5: Develop Measures and Metrics
• Create meaningful measures useful for decision makers and
other stakeholders
• Develop clear measures that tells your departments story
• Create relevant measures that do not become obsolete too early
“ The instructors are very
Step 6: Narrow Casting and Targeting
knowledgeable.”
• Set targets for your chosen measures
DAPHNE THORNTON, • Establish desired results within a specific timeframe
MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYST, FEMA • Understand the four attributes of a quality target
Step 7: Manage through Measures
• Use measures to manage and motivate employees
• Manage your budget based on performance measures
• Develop performance-based statements of works to
manage contracts
4:00
Day Three Adjourns
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5. Government Performance Management Week
COURSE 3: PERFORMANCE-BASED BUDGETING
(OPTION 1)
December 10, 2009 December 11, 2009
8:30 8:30
Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast Continental Breakfast
9:00 9:00
Performance-Based Budgeting: Formulate, Justify Align Resource Consumption With Agency Goals
and Execute and Objectives
• Learn the key components to formulate, justify and execute your • Analyze your program’s mission and identify duplicative
performance-based budget programs that are a misuse of resources
• Identify the characteristics of results-oriented justification • Evaluate budgetary alignment with program goals as outlined in
• Learn how to do more with less during times of the strategic plan
financial constraint • Improve the dialogue between the resource requestor (your
agency) and the resource appropriator (Congress)
State of Practice in Performance Budgeting:
12:00
Evaluating the Different Types of Performance-
Lunch Break
Based Budgets
• Understand the different ways that you can present performance 1:00
information in a budget: Track, Monitor and Evaluate Program Spending
• Example 1: Traditional Activity-Based Budgets • Examine where your budgetary resources are going
• Example 2: Strategic Plan Summary with Traditional Activity- • Monitor your program spending to see if your resources are
Based Budget being used effectively
• Example 3: Cross-Walking Between Budget and Performance Plan • Justify program spending by showing how your resources are
• Example 4: Integration of Performance Plan and Budget contributing to the mission of your agency
• Example 5: Forecasting Performance for Different Budget Levels
Overcome the Challenges of Implementing a
12:00
Performance-Based Budget
Lunch Break
• Discover why performance-based budgets are sometimes hard
1:00 to execute
Create a Performance-Based Budget: A Seven-Step • Learn strategies to overcome barriers in performance budgeting
Process to Integrate Performance and • Examine ways to hold multiple actors accountable for jointly
Budget Information produced results
Step 1: Develop/Align to Strategic Plan (Mission, 4:00
Outcomes, Strategies) Conference Adjourns
Step 2: Determine Outputs (By Program) for Each Strategy
Step 3: Define Activities to Deliver Outputs
Step 4: Calculate Full Costs (Direct/Indirect for Each Output)
Step 5: Identify Cost Efficiency Improvements
Step 6: Set Performance Targets (Revise after
Budget Finalization)
Step 7: Presentation of the Budget Justification
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6. Government Performance Management Week
COURSE 3: PERFORMANCE DATA ASSESSMENT
(OPTION 2)
December 10, 2009 December 11, 2009
8:30 8:30
Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast Continental Breakfast
9:00 9:00
Introduction: The Importance of Accurate Assess Source Documentation for Your Measures
Performance Data • Develop criteria for testing source documents
• Learn the importance of reliable performance data to all • Identify the population and choose a sample of measures to test
government organizations
• Examine how all governments throughout the country are testing
Determine the Assessment Category for
the reliability of their performance data
the Measure
• Determine if the measure results are acceptable or unacceptable
Plan a Data Reliability Review
• Develop an action plan for measures that are categorized
• Define objectives, scope, and methods for performing a program as unacceptable
review related to assessing the quality of performance data
• Develop a program to assess the reliability of performance data
Report the Results of Your Assessment
• Develop findings and recommendations and draft a report of
Design Performance Measure Definitions That are your reliability assessment results for agency management
Clear, Specific and Not Open to Interpretation
• Learn the importance of having accurate performance 12:00
measure definitions Conference Adjourns
• Ensure that measure definitions include the data source and
calculation methodology
• Determine if an agency follows its measure definition
12:00
Lunch Break
1:00
Assess Summary Documentation for Your Measures
• Identify various types of summary data “ The instructors know the
• Recreate the numbers reported to the agency’s performance
measurement database
subject matter. They are experts in
• Identify inaccurate performance data the field.”
Assess Performance Measure Controls MONICA LEONARD ,
• Identify input, process, and review controls PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISOR , CENTERS FOR DISEASE
• Develop a high-level flowchart to determine whether sufficient CONTROL AND PREVENTION
measure controls exist
4:00
Day Four Adjourns
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7. Government Performance Management Week
Trainer Biographies
Jon Desenberg, Policy Director for The Performance Wayne K. Simpson, founder of Advanced Ideas in He has written articles and book reviews for
Management and Human Capital Management Government, is nationally recognized for his expertise periodicals such as The Government Accountants
Divisions at The Performance Institute, is responsible in Activity Based Costing – Management. He was Journal and Government Finance Review.
for developing, structuring and implementing the former Activity Based Costing Coordinator for the He is regularly sought out as a reference and
creative solutions for our client’s organizational and City of Indianapolis. In this position, he managed, acknowledged in publications such as Coopers
workforce planning needs. Jon has led engagements organized, and facilitated Activity Based Costing & and Lybrand’s Activity Based Management in
in strategic, succession, and human capital planning Management efforts city-wide. This included training Government and Activity Based Management for
with both private and public organizations. His of city employees on ABC principles and application Service Industries, Government Entities and Non-
clients have included the US Department of Health and working with Management and Union on using profit Organizations by James Brimson and John
and Human Services, the Department of Defense, the ABC information to improve operations and Antos. He has also been quoted in periodicals
The US Navy and Army, The Forest Service, NASA, prepare for managed competition. and awarded special recognition describing the
The Department of Commerce, The Department of Indianapolis program and its use of Activity Based
Treasury, The National Institutes of Health and more A graduate of Purdue University, Mr. Simpson Costing such as American Productivity & Quality
than 70 other state, local and Federal organizations. received his Bachelor of Science degree in Center’s 1997 report Activity-Based Management
Jon’s international clients include the Governments Industrial Management and Accounting. He II: Best Practices for Dramatic Improvement. He
of China, Spain, Italy, and British Columbia. His spent 13 years in the private sector, including 8 has conducted over 60 seminars, workshops,
recent work with the Federal intelligence community years with Dow Chemical, and had been with the and presentations to numerous groups including
included several briefings to the U.S. House of City of Indianapolis for the past 20 years where Executive Enterprises, Institute for International
Representatives Permanent Select Committee on his last position was CFO of the Department of Research, The Conference Board, Performance
Intelligence and working in an advisory capacity to Parks and Recreation. Institute, and the Government Finance Officers
the House Budget Committee. Association on activity-based costing, management,
Mr. Simpson had been involved in the city performance budgeting, and alternative service
Jon Desenberg brings more than 19 years of public of Indianapolis’ Activity-Based Costing and delivery options.
sector experience to his current position with The Management program since its beginning in
Performance Institute, specifically in the fields of 1992, which in addition became the foundation Mr. Simpson belongs to the Government Financial
performance management, strategic planning, and for the city’s Performance Budget also known as Officers Association (GFOA) and has served on its
knowledge management. As Managing Director, the ‘Popular Budget.’ Wayne has also trained and Government Budgeting and Fiscal Policy Committee.
he successfully led the United States General consulted for various federal, university, city, county, He also has been involved in the Association of
Services Administration’s (GSA) Performance and state organizations on activity based costing, Governmental Accountants (AGA). He is a Certified
Management program, which ultimately resulted management and budgeting. Government Financial Manager (CGFM).
in aligned goals and measures cascading to all
13,000 employees.
Stuart S. Grifel is Managing Partner for Intellect Government Systems, L.L.C. Intellect Government
Jon Desenberg began his career as a policy Systems is focused on the development of software that enables governments to be more effective
analyst and speech writer on Federal IT Issues. He and to better manage scarce resources. Prior to that he was an Audit Supervisor for Broward County,
contributed to the development of the Federal CIO Florida and Audit Supervisor and Corporate Internal Auditor for the City of Austin, Texas, where one of
Legislation and wrote for the Congressional Record his key responsibilities were certifying the reliability of departments’ performance measures.
and other publications on Federal technology policy.
He was a Policy Analyst for GSA’s Knowledge Mr. Grifel has over 25 years experience in government performance measurement, operations
Management Program and co-chaired the reviews, performance auditing, and productivity improvement. Mr. Grifel co-authored the book
Federal CIO Council Committee on Knowledge “Auditor Roles in Government Performance Measurement: A Guide to Exemplary Practices at the
Management. Jon Desenberg was awarded with Local, State, and Provincial Levels” The Institute of Internal Auditors (2004).
several commendations for his Federal Service,
including the Presidential Leadership Award in 2000. Mr. Grifel is the recipient of the 2009 Harry Hatry Distinguished Performance Measurement Award
from The American Society for Public Administration. The award goes annually to an individual whose
Jon has authored articles in Washington Technology, teaching, education, training and consultation in performance measurement have made a significant
Government Computer News, and the Washington contribution to the practice of public administration.
Post. He is co-author of the textbook, Knowledge
Management: A Foundation for E-Government. Mr. Grifel has an MBA from Suffolk University in Boston, and an MPA from Baruch College, City University
of New York. He is also a Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Government Auditing Professional.
He received a B.A. from The University of Michigan
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8. Government Performance Management Week
Logistics & Registration
VENUE & HOTEL REGISTRATION
Government Performance Management Week will be held at The Performance Institute
in Arlington, VA, just one block east of the Courthouse Metro stop on the Orange Line. 1. ONLINE at www.PerformanceInstitute.org/GPMWeek
A public parking garage is located just inside of the building.
2. VIA FAX to 866-234-0680
The Performance Institute Training Center
3. VIA PHONE to 877-992-9521
1515 North Courthouse Rd., Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201 4. VIA MAIL to
703-894-0481 The Performance Institute Headquarters
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Arlington Rosslyn Courtyard 805 15th Street, NW, 3rd Floor
by Marriott at the prevailing rate of $223 until November 6. This rate is based on
Washington, DC 20005
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TUITION
The tuition rate for the Government Performance Management Week is as follows:
Offerings Early Bird Rate Regular Rate Name Title
One Course 999.00 1199.00
Two Courses 1599.00 1799.00
Office Organization
The Whole Week 1799.00 1999.00
* For the Early Bird rate, register before September 28, 2009
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For more information on group discounts for the Government Performance
Management Week, please contact Melvin Hall at 202-739-9630 or email him at
Melvin.Hall@PerformanceInstitute.org
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