Advanced Performance Management

The Advanced Performance Management for Government Week is designed for individuals who will lead or play a key execution role in performance improvement initiatives in their organization.

This course is not for beginners.

It involves a vetting process to ensure you are ready to participate in this level of coursework. Attendees are asked to bring a project they are working on to the class or to identify a project that they would like to see implemented within their agency.

What you will learn:

You will emerge from this interactive workshop with the skills you need to lead successful performance improvement initiatives, including the following competencies:

• Secure buy-in from elected officials, political appointees, senior managers, and line managers for using performance management in government
• Overcome resistance to performance measurement transparency and reporting requirements
• Integrate performance management initiatives into other management improvement efforts already underway in your agency
• Lead cultural change within government to achieve improved results
• Utilize performance measures with state-of-the-practice techniques of evidence-based analysis, data analytics, performance reporting, benchmarking, etc.
• Devise and lead performance improvement teams – working across program silos to get better results

GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE LEADER CAREER PATH:
Obtain the skills and a pathway to taking a leadership role on performance improvement initiatives in government

ALIGN PROGRAMS TO RESULTS:
Proven approaches for aligning programs and management initiatives to an integrated performance management system for your government organization

TAMING DATA AND METRICS:
Tools and methodologies for managing the deluge of performance information to find the most meaningful measures and data sets

OVERCOME INTERNAL RESISTANCE: Techniques for gaining leadership buy-in for performance improvement initiatives – and building a performance team of program managers and line employees sets

AGILE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT:
Refine and adjust your performance measures and initiatives to fit changing environments in government