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Webcasts from ASTD & The Public Manager

Government executives, advisers and thought leaders bring their expertise and insights to you with this webinar series devoted to enabling public sector leaders to learn best management practices. The series, developed by The Public Manager and the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), is designed to give participants a deeper understanding of the diverse challenges facing today’s public managers and the solutions needed to drive the issues forward.

 

 

Upcoming: Government: Growing the Next Generation - A Succession Planning Case Study with Lisa Doyle (Moderator Carrie Blustin)

 

Presented by: Lisa Doyle, Chancellor of the VA Acquisition Academy

When: May 30, 2012, 2:00 p.m. EDT

Where: Online - Click Here to Register

 

Training and effective succession planning are vital to organizational success. Learn how a transformational curriculum accelerates the learning curve; reduces time to performance; increases productivity; builds competence and confidence; and emphasizes the translation of theory, fundamentals and concepts to practical application.  Lisa Doyle, Chancellor of the VA Acquisition Academy, will share the Academy’s experiential learning model created to change behavior and improve performance, contributing to a stronger, more capable 21st century organization.

 

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Upcoming: Going Virtual With Online Training During Challenging Economic Times

 

When: April 3, 2012, 2:00 p.m. EDT

Where: Online - Click Here to Register

 

Federal government employees are challenged to increasingly skip the classroom to receive training. Despite the current travel and budgets cuts Federal agencies need to train a growing younger generation workforce and pass on institutional knowledge from the large percentage of retiring Federal employees effectively.
  • More flexibility and convenience - Online courses also expand the flexibility for remote workers/executives to study when it’s most convenient, use tools they’re already using and train just enough when they need it.
  • Better, richer communication and community building between learners and instructor as well as among learners - Through wikis, message boards, and other synchronous and asynchronous discussions, participants not only share knowledge but get to know one another.
  • More engagement opportunities including rich media, social media connections
  • Online resources provide continuous learning opportunities via connections with experts and sources – Q&A and learning community continues after the learning event.

 

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Upcoming: Leading in the Learning Function as a Business Partner

 

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Presented by: Jody Hudson, Lauren Malmon, Emaad Burki

When: March 28, 2012, 2:00 p.m. EDT

Where: Online - Click Here to Register

 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is top notch for learning and development. Hear from Chief Learning Officer Jody Hudson's team how continuous, agency wide learning supports the business partnership. Also find out, how do you teach effective leadership? How do you enable employees to learn from each other in communities of practice? And learn why job rotation is a critical element of government training and development.

 

 

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Upcoming: A New Model for Government

 

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Presented by: Alan Balutis, Lena Trudeau, Norm Jacknis, Don Kettl

When: April 25, 2012, 2:00 p.m. EDT

Where: Online - Click Here to Register

 

The nation has no shortage of problems to solve. Facing these challenges will require a flexible government ready to operate on demand. Learn how to shape your agency by creating a workplace that is more connected and less hierarchical, and more focused on acquiring talent from outside the public sector.

 

That is the general conclusion of the experts assembled in the volume, Transforming American Governance, edited by Alan P. Balutis, Terry F. Buss, and Dwight Ink and published by M. E. Sharpe, as part of the National Academy of Public Administration’s Transformational Trends in Governance and Democracy series. The contributors discuss current policy challenges as the nation’s fiscal crisis and our on-going war on terrorism, particularly the effects on state and local governance. They speculate about exactly how government will respond to these challenges, considering various current and emerging changes and reform models adopted in government organizations. Future issues expected to change government management are also discussed, such as the influx of the millennial generation into public service, Web 2.0 and other collaborative technologies, new models of citizen engagement, and even co-production.

 

 

 

 

Webcast on Demand: Disabled Veterans and Reasonable Accommodation in the Federal Workplace

 

Record Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2012

Presented by: Christopher Kuczynski, Esq. of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

 

As our society seeks to assist disabled individuals, including our noble disabled military veterans, to fully participate as members of the American workforce, the topic of reasonable accommodation in federal employment has become a topic of considerable interest for federal human resource professionals. Christopher J, Kuczynski, Esq., Assistant Legal Counsel, ADA/GINA Policy Division, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will be discussing legal requirements for reasonable accommodations in the federal workplace. To learn more about reasonable accommodation, please visit the EEOC website at: www.eeoc.gov. To learn more about the Department of Veterans Affairs Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Services, please visit: www.vba.va.gov.

 

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