INNOVATIVE

• Exhibit Hall Demonstrations/Technology:
  • Tech City: Showcasing the latest technology and providing support services to the members
• Skills Building Workshops - During the Conference
• Sharing Practical Experiences: Innovative presentations based on practical experiences
• Special Awards Ceremonies:
  • Essay Contest
• Special innovative sessions:
  • Mystery
  • Sr. Scholars session
  • International sessions
• New Special Events:
  • Special sessions/mentoring for students
  • Hall of Champions
  • Special event for high school students
  • Monitoring presentations to insure quality

JUST TO ENTICE YOU

Here are some of the highlights, so far, of the 2000 Conference:

TRADITIONAL

• Pre-Conference Workshops:
  • Vision 1:
    • Results Oriented Management (Performance Mgmt; Performance Auditing; Performance budgeting)
    • Leadership - Public and Media Relations
    • Leadership - Ethics & Decision Making
    • New Technology - GIS System with Arcview
  • Vision 2:
    • Empowerment & citizen participation
    • Results Oriented Management (Improving customer sevice)
    • Leadership - human resources Organization diversity
    • Leadership - Ethics & Decision Making
  • Vision 3:
    • Leadership - Negotiations (Win-Win)
    • Leadership - Meeting for Results
    • HRM Sexual Harassment
    • HRM - labor/mgmt collaborations
    • New Technology - design & development agency websites
• Social & Special Events:
  • New Members Orientation
  • Beach Party Opening Reception
  • Gala Reception
  • SWPA breakfast/reception
• Plenaries:
  • Donald Stone Luncheon: Speaker: Harlan Cleveland
• Mini-Plenaries:
  • Awakening the Public Soul: The Search for Meaning in Government Service
  • The Devolution Initiative: Exploring How To Increase The Role Of Citizens In Policy Processes

INNOVATIVE

• Skills Building Workshops - During the Conference:
  • Let's Talk Sex Baby: Recognizing & Preventing Sexual Harassment
  • Leadership 2001: Light The Fire Within
  • Tactical to Strategic: Upside down Planning
  • Preparing Graphics for Agency Web-sites
  • Small Aircraft Transportation Systems
  • Creating and Sustaining an Ever-Improving Quality of Life
  • Improving Customer Service in Government
  • Incorporating Nonprofit Education in an MPA Program: Roles for Faculty and Practitioners
  • Foundations for Ethical Decision Making and Behavior
• Sharing Practical Experiences: Innovative presentations based on practical experiences:
  • Breakthrough Performance in a State Government Agency: Outcome of a Systematic Implementatin of Org. Change Processes
  • Crossing The Bridge: From The Classroom To The Frontline: A humorous dramatization
  • Sprituality and Work: Possibilities and Problems
  • Supporting Service To the Ultra-Poor With Integrated Information Technology: Lessons from the periphery
  • Community Based Planning - the Portland Model
  • Creating High Performing Organizations
  • The Conversations Project
  • What Money Can't Buy: The Experience of IT Development In Child Support Enforcement Agencies
  • Ethical Problems of Performance Measurement
  • Learning About Emotional Intelligence
  • An Agenda for Advancing Results Oriented Management
  • Understanding Affirmative Action in the New Millennium
  • Creating Training From Cyberdust - the Collaborator Experience
  • Urban Bureaucracy: The Perils of Trying to Improve Service Delivery
  • Exploring Cultural competence in the Workplace
  • The Public-Private Ethics Interface in the 21st Century: Implications for Government and Society
• Special Awards Ceremonies:
  • 2000 Citizenship Essay Contest: "The Health of Citizenship in America" - sponsored by: The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies - for Jr or Sr College/University students - Awards (3 winners) to be presented
• Special innovative sessions: International sessions:
  • "The State of the Public Sector: A UN Global Report" - This report will discuss country public management capacities and provide indicators that can be used to compare countries, along with a focus on "economic governance'
  • "Decentralization in Uganda"
  • "Innovation and Cooperation in the Mexico-US Border: The Role of Local Government" - This presentation represents a continuation of topics discussed at ASPA 1999 in Orlando, but with improvements because of US participants. The proposed participants are as follows:
    • Tonatiuh Guillen, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
    • Enrique Cabrrero, CIDE
    • David Arellano (o J.P. Guerrero), CIDE
    • Victoria Rodriguez, University of Texas, Austin - Michael Cortes, University of Colorado, Denver
  • the development of transparency in different levels of government in the US and Mexico, as part of the general effort toward decentralized and professional public administration. Possible presnters are:
    • Robert Cerasoli (Inspector General, Massachussetts)
    • Fauzi Handam (Diputado, Comision de Vigilancia)
    • J. P. Guerrero (CIDE)
    • David Arellano (CIDE)
    • Guy Peters, Pittsburg University
    • Peter Deleon, University of Colorado, Denver
• New Special Events:
  • Getting to know our future leaders: Up to 100 public administrators at the conference will have an opportunity to go to local schools to talk about careers in public service