Track 1

Performance Challenge

Track 2

Accountability Challenge

Track 3

Human Capital Challenge

Track 4

Technology Challenge

Track 5

Communication Challenge

Track 6

Governance Challenge

Concurrent Session 4:

Fostering an organization-wide performance culture:

What new insights can be gleaned from federal, state, and local efforts over the past decade to evolve or transform the basic assumptions and behaviors that lead to improved organization performance? How are agencies setting standards, holding organizations accountable, and considering changes to human resources law, personnel policies and systems, and other innovative ideas (such as "employment at will") in pursuit of a performance-based culture?

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Strategic sourcing in the face of increased requirements:

For the past several decades, as public agency personnel levels have diminished and mission responsibilities have grown, more agency work has been performed by non-governmental intermediaries or vendors. Are there limits to these arrangements? What strategies and techniques have organizations employed to maximize the return on such investments and minimize potential risks?

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Strategic human capital planning and the workforce of the future:

Given the demographic shifts that have already taken place and that will accelerate over the next few years, coupled with significant change in both the demands on government and the technologies that offer dramatically new solutions, what are agencies doing to correspondingly restructure and reconfigure the public management workforce?

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Continuity planning, telework, and the workplace of the future:

The public sector has slowly made increasing use of telework and other flexible workplace arrangements to respond to a variety of societal concerns, such as traffic, air pollution, and child care. Another compelling reason for public agencies to become “tele-work-ready” is to ensure continuity of government operations in the event of a significant work stoppage. What are agencies doing to move in this direction?

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Communicating across networks, not within stovepipes:

Given the inter-dependent nature of today’s public-sector challenges and solutions, government agencies and occupational groupings will need to go outside their own vertically integrated organizational boundaries and interact with other bureaucratic subcultures to get outcomes envisioned in new performance plans. How are agencies reaching out across traditional boundaries?

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Stewardship in an era of outsourcing, right-sizing, and performance measurement:

The number of government work requirements w to private contractors is rapidly growing, due in part to agency personnel levels that are not keeping pace with increased responsibilities. Given the need to measure and report on the performance of all parties, how are organizations communicating oversight and accountability roles and responsibilities in this demanding, resource-stretched environment?

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