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 culminated with The Public Manager and ASPA's 2008 Annual Conference (July 28-29, Baltimore Harbor). The annual conference afforded an interchange of ideas and best practice insights on  “Transforming Bureaucratic Cultures: Challenges and Solutions for Public Sector Practitioners.”

 

 

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.

 

Conference Tracks Focused on Challenges and Solutions in 6 Main Areas:

• Performance - Sample Session: Comparing Performance against Common Standards
• Accountability - Sample Session: Managing Internal and External Risk in the Information Age
• Human Capital - Sample Session: Measuring and Compensating Performance- Linked or Not?
• Technology - Sample Session: Keeping Pace with Expanding E-Expectations
• Communication - Sample Session: Making Transparency an Organization-wide Value
• Governance - Sample Session: Finding Common Purpose in International Collaborations

 

 

To learn more, visit us at
www.thepublicmanager.org/2008Conference