Guide Map for Managing the Changing Federal Landscape
Utilize tools from the President’s Management Agenda for assessing and improving your program.

• Effective Management Restructuring:
  The NIH Story
  Monday, July 10, 2006
  9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
  The National Institutes of Health recently initiated a wide range of management and administrative reorganization efforts touching on financial management, procurement, human capital and more, to reduce overhead and provide more effective service to the 27 independent institutes and centers that constitute the agency. This session will discuss methods used, the dynamics between the consultant and the client, achievements to date and lessons learned.

  Speakers:
  Colleen Barros, Deputy Director for Management, National Institutes of Health
  Don Christoferson, Executive Officer, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
  Diane Frasier, Director, Office of Acquisition Management and Policy, National Institutes of Health
  Thomas Hooven, Deputy Director for Management, National Cancer Institute
  Moderator:
  Bruce McDowell, Fellow and Project Director, National Academy of Public Administration

• Enhancing Performance Through Partnerships: A Case Study
  Monday, July 10, 2006
  11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
  The Coast Guard’s major transformation effort, Deepwater, is a $24 billion, 25-year acquisition program of impressive scope and complexity to reinvent and retool the U.S. Coast Guard. This case study illustrates how success required extensive cooperation among military, civilians and contractors.

  Speakers:
  Rear Adm. Gary Blore, Executive Office of the Deepwater Program, U.S. Coast Guard
  James Edwin Kee, Professor, School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
  Dr. Leo S. Mackay, President, Integrated Coast Guard Systems Corporation
  Moderator:
  Kathryn Newcomer, Director, School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University

• We Won the A-76 Outsourcing Process—
  Now What?
  Monday, July 10, 2006
  2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
  When a federal agency wins an A-76 competition, the outcomes may include significant reduction of staff and major changes to effectively execute a new Most Efficient Organization (MEO). Interact with federal managers as they share their experiences for administering a new MEO. Speakers:
  Matthew Blum, General Attorney, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
  Jacqueline Myers, Associate Deputy Chief for Business Operations, U.S. Forest Service
  Dennis O’Brien, Director of Competitive Sourcing, U.S. Department of Energy
  Moderator:
  Allan Burman, President, Jefferson Solutions and Senior Vice President, Jefferson Consulting Group, LLC

• The Program Manager in Action:
  The Key to PART
  Tuesday, July 11, 2006
  9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
  The Program Assessment Rating Tool has been hailed as one of the most innovative processes to evaluate programs and effectiveness. Program managers from federal agencies will share how they implement PART provisions and what it takes to execute a successful program.

  Speakers:
  Diana Espinosa, Deputy Assistant Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget
  Bill Valdez, Director of Planning and Analyses, Office of Science, Department of Energy
  Elizabeth A. Cotsworth, Director, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, US Environmental Protection Agency
  Dr. Get W. Moy, Director Installations Requirements and Management Directorate, Office of the Secretary of Defense, US Department of Defense
  Moderator:
  Richard F. Keevey, Director, Performance Consortium, National Academy of Public Administration

• International Results-Based Initiatives:
  Does the US Measure Up?
  Tuesday, July 11, 2006
  10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

  Governments at all levels in the United States are integrating performance measurements into the budgeting process, especially at the federal level through the President’s Management Agenda. Other countries also have been instituting performance budgeting techniques. Interact with leading proponents of performance management as they discuss experiences in the international arena, and how lessons can be shared across boundaries

  Speakers: Ray Rist, Senior Evaluation Officer, The World Bank
  Michael R. Garrett, Chief Administrative Officer, Regional Municipality of York, Canada
  Maurice McTigue, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Mercatus Center, George Mason University and former Cabinet Official and Ambassador for New Zealand
  Moderator:
  Jonathan D. Breul, Partner, IBM Business Consulting Services

Energizing Our Workforce: A Shared Opportunity
Strategic Human Capital Management systems are changing. What is our shared role in getting positive results? What solutions have proven effective for leaders, individual employees, and teams? This track answers these questions and offers practical ways key partners – program managers, professionals, employees, and human resources staff – attract, motivate, inspire and manage our people for greater success.

• Balancing the Power of Human Capital
  Monday, July 10, 2006
  9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
  Bringing a military background to the highest levels of the civil service, Retired Army Col. Larry Wilkerson spent three years as chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell. There he learned surprising lessons about the nature of relationships among political and career leaders, managers and employees and agency groups. A born storyteller and candid witness, Wilkerson will address important questions about dealing with competing agendas, ethical dilemmas and the steps people can take to forge productive partnerships.

Speaker:
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Visiting Professor of Government, College of William and Mary
Facilitator:
Thomas Dungan, Jr., Chairman, Management Concepts

• Leading a Multi-Sector Workforce: Challenges, Competence and Conversation
  Monday, July 10, 2006
  11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
  Increasingly, the government’s work is performed by a wide range of people: Federal employees, contactors, temporary or part-time staff, workers based in other countries and other governments. What challenges do leaders face when managing in this multisector workforce environment? What talents and skills are essential for effective leadership? What actions can help leaders become more adept in this challenging, new environment? Using the lively Knowledge Café* process, you will engage in active conversations about these questions.

  *Knowledge Café sessions are located in the Cabinet Room (Concourse Level) and are moderated, open and creative conversations among conference attendees, designed for gaining a deeper collective understanding of a topic and associated issues.

  Facilitators:
  Hannah Sistare, Vice President, Academy Affairs, Director, Human Resources Management Consortium, National Academy of Public Administration
  Barbara Smith, Principal, Council for Excellence in Government

• Linking Pay to Performance the Right Way
  Monday, July 10, 2006
  2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
  Federal employees are largely supportive of rewarding those who perform. However, questions remain on whether supervisors have the skills, training and resources to adequatel administer a fair and equitable system. The U.S. Postal Service, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Federal Aviation Administration, the Army and others have experienced the ups and downs of performance-based compensation. This session will explore why some systems failed and others succeeded with factors including rating inflation, outcome goals and the use of pay-pool panels.

Speakers:
John Shamley, CCP, Senior Compensation Consultant, Federal Aviation Administration
Paul Weatherhead, Program Manager, U.S. Postal Service
Moderator:
Alethea Long-Green, Director, Human Resources Studies, National Academy of Public Administration

• Leveraging Performance: Building Capacity Through Employee Strengths
  Tuesday, July 11, 2006
  9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
  The Gallup Organization’s approach for discovering natural strengths, matching talent and skills to jobs and creating a strength-based organization is a time-tested system that can work in government agencies. During the session, you can interact with Gallup experts and government leaders who build on strengths as their strategy for engaging employees, developing competence and retaining talent. By attending this session, you will gain skills in setting performance expectations and getting feedback.

• Engaged Employees, a High-Performing Organization and a Great Place to Work: How to Have It All!
  Tuesday, July 11, 2006
  10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
  Managers, employees and HR professionals all want their organizations to be successful, and they want to feel good about working there. Too often, they fail to achieve one or both goals by failing to truly engage employees in the work of the organization. This interactive session will provide open dialogue with federal agency representatives and will yield practical advice drawn from the experiences of high-performing, successful organizations whose own employees have also rated them among the “best places to work.”