If you aren't yet familiar with the offerings of ICMA's Center for Management Strategies  and would like to know about its work in key management strategies that can help your organizational efficiency and effectiveness, you might want to check out two educational offerings that will be coming up this summer. 

Citizen Engagement Workshop

The first program is a full-day program in citizen engagement strategies in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday, July 17.  Through this program you will: 

1. Analyze the strengths and limitations of the most common engagement practices;
2. Gain insights into new strategies and processes through case studies;
3. Learn about the CMS Civic Engagement Assessment Tool;  and
4. Identify first steps towards building an effective, long-term, and multi-faceted civic engagement plan for communities.

Time is running out to register for this program.  The deadline is Thursday, July 3rd.  For more information, visit www.icma.org/workshopce

CPBB "New Wave" of Local Government Conference

The second program is a full conference sponsored by the Center for Management Strategies and its leading practice provider, the Center for Priority Based Budgeting.  This conference will be held August 5-7 in Denver, Colorado and will showcase key innovators in local government management.    Key sessions will include: 

1.  Fiscal Health and Priority Based Budgeting—Outcomes, Methodology, Data and Lessons Learned;
2. Muniland:  Where Wall Street Meets Main Street;
3. Blueprint for Job Creation:  A Fresh Approach To Economic Development;
4. New Models in Achieving Safe Communities:  Emerging Breakthroughs in Police, Fire and EMS;
5. Tapping into the Emerging Generation of Leaders:  More than Succession Planning;
6. Mining Hidden Treasure:  Accessible Methods to Discovering New Revenue Sources;
7. Shared Service and the Metro Revolution:  Where the Real Potential for Local Government Exists;
8. Reinventing Government through ICMA’s Center for Management Strategies; and,
9. Measuring the Impacts of Priority Based Budgeting.

For more information on the Center for Priority Based Budgeting’s “New Wave” of Local Government Conference, this link .  

Both of these important programs are sponsored by   ICMA and its Center for Management Strategies which provides research, education and technical assistance in key management strategies of  priority based budgeting, high performance organization strategies, citizen engagement,  surveying and data-driven decision making, and collaborative service delivery.

The Center and its leading practice service providers hope you will consider joining us for these great educational sessions.  By participating, you can become part of the New Wave of Innovation in local government management and  take the first steps forward  toward greater efficiency and effectiveness in your community. 

Not able to attend one of these programs?  Be sure to join the Center and its providers at the ICMA Conference,  September  13-17 in Charlotte, North Carolina.   For a full listing of Center sessions at the conference, click here.  You can also check out the Center’s full documents and articles  library  or  subscribe to the CMS Blog and join the CMS Group on the Knowledge Network!