Opening Reception

Welcome to the Conference

Senior officials from states, cities and counties share what they have learned about refocusing the energies and expectations of the men and women who work for them.

• Budgeting in Tough Times: Strategies that Work, Gimmicks that Don’t

• Next Generation Social Services

• Managing Performance: Making the Numbers Matter

• Managing Workers through Layoffs and Freezes

Networking Lunch

• Good Choices in Bad Times: How Legislatures are Using Performance Data to Make Budget Calls

• No-Cost Contracting

• Transparency and Accountability in Stimulus Reporting

• New Ways of Working: Paperless Offices, Mobile Workers, Electronic Records

• Transition Planning: Bad Luck or Good Management?

What characteristics attract talented, engaged, energetic men and women to take and keep government jobs — and to do them well? A group of state and local officials experienced in these areas share what they know about building and managing a high quality public workforce.

Reception

Continental Breakfast

It’s one of government’s biggest problems — and not only when the workforce is organized. Get some expert advice in strategies and tactics for dealing with your problem employees.

• Young Leaders: What Attracts Them to Government? What Will Keep Them Here?

• The Power of the Crowds — Democratizing Data

• Using Performance Data to Transform Failing Systems

• How to Deliver Bad News Without Getting Bad Press

Hear from one of today’s most impressive leaders about how they take on this challenge.